@samleemd wrote:
Does anyone have an idea why mt-daapd is no longer seen by the roku after being able to play initially? Is this similar to gidonk’s problem, as he too did not show Bonjour Service as running? Do I have network problem, although I am able to serve music to the roku initially?
The “webpage showing not running” thing is a bug.
When you can see the server when the clients are on and the server is started, but then they fall off later, that’s almost always a firewall issue on the server. It’s allowing outbound multicast traffic (the pre-caching announcements of service start), but when devices later query for the service, the server doesn’t see the queries, and conseqently doesn’t respond, and so the server gets dropped from the browse list.
You’ll probably also notice it might be working for some period of time, then you start iTunes and it gets dropped from the soundbridge. Same thing. iTunes starts, looks for the server, doesn’t get a response and the soundbridge notices it and decides the server must be dead (even though it’s playing music from it).
To fix, see if the firewall on your server has an option to enable multicast traffic. If not, try allowing traffic to 224.0.0.251 on port 5353. If that doesn’t work, try disabling the firewall altogether just to verify that’s the culprit.
— Ron