[mythtv-users] UPnP and MythTV in Fedora 18 (firewalld problem)

[Steve Magnani]

On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 16:38 +0100, John Pilkington wrote: 
> I could watch some kinds of MythTV content via UPnP on my TV with MythTV 
> 0.26-fixes and Fedora 17.  My firewall rules were set, IIRC, after 
> reading the Myth wiki.  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UPnP
> 
> Yesterday, since F17 had reached EOL, I upgraded to F18.  Mostly it was 
> painless, but the TV doesn't see the UPnP server unless I disable 
> firewalld.  It seems there may be a problem in setting the rules:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892801
> 
> There's a suggested configuration file here, to be placed in 
> /etc/firewalld/services/upnp.xml, but it might need tweaking for Myth; 
> it hasn't worked for me yet although I probably haven't given it a fair 
> trial.  Adding tcp port 6544 and changing the destination to 239.0.0.0/8 
> hasn't worked.
> 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <service>
> >    <short>UPNP</short>
> >    <description></description>
> >    <port protocol="udp" port="1900"/>
> >    <destination ipv4="239.255.255.250"/>
> > </service>
> 
> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/firewalld-users/2013-March/000058.html
> 
> Before I plunge into man pages, has anyone got Myth/uPnP working with 
> firewalld active?

This doesn't answer your question, but you might want to consider
continuing to use iptables with F18. firewalld is just the new
"preferred" software; iptables is still available and still works (it's
what I use).

Regards,
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