[mythtv-users] Airplay audio only in v29

[Roger Siddons]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:44:12 -0600
Michael A Weber <mweberjunk01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>> 
> >>>> Well, we can chart that one up to not being the problem.  I
> >>>> suspected it wouldn?t by the nature of the setting label as well
> >>>> as the helper text, which reads ?Allow this backend to receive
> >>>> connections from any IP address on the internet.  NOT
> >>>> recommended for most users.  Use this only if you have secure
> >>>> IPv4 and IPv6 firewalls.?  That tells me that built into
> >>>> mythbackend is the restriction to not accept connections from
> >>>> devices on any subnet except the x.y.z.0 subnet on which the
> >>>> backend resides.  Also, all my frontend machines are on the same
> >>>> subnet as the backend and any machine trying to airplay to a
> >>>> frontend, so that?s definitely not it.
> >>>> 

That's true, but AirPlay is a bit different and isn't much used, I
believe. So it's probably worth disabling the "listen on all subnets"
and using a real ip address on your backend to see if it changes
anything.

> 
> so, for some reason, it isn’t trying to load that up, and I don’t
> know why.  That frontend, running across an ssh X session over to my
> Mac, even plays recordings.  So, apparently much of it is working.
> 
> Also, the setting isn’t present to enable AirTunes on the backend’s
> frontend.  I just finished going through and making sure all the
> runtime dependencies are installed, I went through the configuration
> script to make sure all the options I believe I would need are
> present and enabled, and still nothing.
> 

It should show up if libdns_sd & libcrypto are installed. 
You probably need the RAOPKey from your other machine as well.
The USING_AIRPLAY is set by mythfrontend.pro