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

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sat Aug 17 19:50:57 UTC 2013


On 17/08/13 20:28, Steve Magnani wrote:
> 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,
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Steven J. Magnani               "I claim this network for MARS!
> www.digidescorp.com              Earthling, return my space modulator!"
>

Thanks for that :-)  I had just discovered that my iptables file still 
exists, so I'll try to re-enable it until I find an alternative.





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