[mythtv-users] Airplay: iPad thinks its streaming, but nothing shows on mythfrontend

[Craig Treleaven]

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On 29/12/2015 15:41, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:49 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Okay, so installing avahi on the frontend cured that problem, and
>>>> now my iPad shows an Airplay button and I can select the frontend
>>>> from there, but I've tried iPlayer, Amazon Instant Video and
>>>> PlayerXtreme with no success: nothing appears on my TV and I see
>>>> nothing in the frontend logs. The iPad is muted and seems to be
>>>> happy that it is streaming to something.
>>> 
>>> Also, have you seen:
>>> 
>>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/AirTunes/AirPlay#Can.27t_Start_.2F_Nothing_in_frontend_logs
>> 
>> The issues mentioned there could be related and I haven't managed to
>> follow all the advice given. The frontend logs show that the service
>> is listening on a an external ipv4 address, but not on an ipv6 address.
>> 
>> In the logs I see:
>> 
>> 127.0.0.1:5000
>> 10.0.0.4:5000
>> [::1]:5000
>> 
>> and later the same but with port 5100. I guess the third line implies
>> I at least have ipv6 enabled, but maybe not on the external interface
>> (if that's possible - I'm no expert). The frontend runs an image
>> I create via a system call kiwi and I've yet to find out how to alter
>> aspects of ipv6. Also this is a frontend only, so I wasn't
>> sure how mythtv-setup relates. I don't include that on the frontend,
>> although I could easily enough.
> 
> Hmm, I seem to be getting the same problem you are describing, even when trying to AirPlay music.  No output (after a minute or more), no notification on screen when starting playback, nothing relevant showing in the frontend log.  I’m running "mythfrontend version: fixes/0.27 [v0.27.4-f1115fcd-MacPorts] www.mythtv.org” with Qt 4.8.6.  Network interfaces were:
> 
> 2015-12-29 12:13:21.280316 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404 (listen) - Listening on TCP 127.0.0.1:6547
> 2015-12-29 12:13:21.280481 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404 (listen) - Listening on TCP 192.168.2.221:6547
> 2015-12-29 12:13:21.280685 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404 (listen) - Listening on TCP [fe80::1%lo0]:6547
> 2015-12-29 12:13:21.280870 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404 (listen) - Listening on TCP [::1]:6547
> 2015-12-29 12:13:21.281064 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404 (listen) - Listening on TCP [fe80::6a5b:35ff:fe7f:3a10%en0]:6547
> 
> 
> I think we need to turn on more extensive logging for the frontend to see if that shows anything.  I’ll try later but I don’t have much time.

If I use an old iPad running iOS 5.1.1 (!!), music, photos and video all AirPlay fine.  None of those work from my iPhone running iOS 9.2.  I found an email from jay (the main developer on this feature) saying that videos no longer worked as of iOS 8:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/580272#580272

It would appear that iOS 9 won’t allow us *any* AirPlay functionality.  Or do we just need a new key?  Perhaps jya can confirm?

Craig