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[crmccreary]

This is rather wierd. My ROKU soundbridge (which totally rocks, I love it, my wife loves it, my kids love it!) sees both the firefly server on our ubuntu desktop as well as the firefly server on the ubuntu laptop. Everything is cool on that front.

On the desktop, rhythmbox only sees the laptop and not the firefly server on itself.

On a windows desktop, itunes sees neither.

What gives?

Here’s the log from the desktop:

2008-07-20 00:26:53 (b745a6c0): Firefly Version svn-1696: Starting with debuglevel 2
2008-07-20 00:26:53 (b745a6c0): Error loading plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so: plugin declined to load
2008-07-20 00:26:53 (b745a6c0): Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1696
2008-07-20 00:26:53 (b745a6c0): Plugin loaded: ssc-ffmpeg/svn-1696
2008-07-20 00:26:53 (b745a6c0): Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1696
2008-07-20 00:26:53 (b745a6c0): Starting rendezvous daemon
2008-07-20 00:26:53 (b745a6c0): Starting signal handler
2008-07-20 00:26:53 (b745a6c0): Initializing database
2008-07-20 00:26:54 (b745a6c0): Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
2008-07-20 00:26:54 (b745a6c0): Registering rendezvous names
2008-07-20 00:26:54 (b745a6c0): Serving 5114 songs. Startup complete in 1 seconds
2008-07-20 00:26:54 (b745a6c0): Rescanning database
2008-07-20 00:26:59 (b745a6c0): Starting playlist scan
2008-07-20 00:26:59 (b745a6c0): Processing static playlist: /home/mccreary/Music/Christmas Music.m3u
2008-07-20 00:26:59 (b745a6c0): Updating playlists
2008-07-20 00:26:59 (b745a6c0): Scanned 5115 songs (was 5114) in 5 seconds

What’s with the
ssc-script.so: plugin declined to load
and could it be related to this? Both the laptop and the desktop are running hardy heron. Why would the ROKU soundbridge see the desktop firefly over wireless and nothing else will?

[fizze]

The ssc-script plugin is only used on embedded devices like the nslu2. The ssc-ffmpeg plugin is far superior. 🙂

How is everything connected, network-wise? Wired? Wirelessly? What kind of network equipment do you use? Wired router? Wireless router? What brand/model/firmware?

[crmccreary]

After further checking, firely is recognized by the ROKU and rhythmbox under ubuntu. It is not recognized by Itunes across a wireless-B bridge.

[fizze]

Sweet. It seems the wireless bridge/AP does not relay multicast packets.
Check the administration webinterface of your wireless bridge for anything like “multicast” or “unicast” etc. And make sure it’s enabled.

Firefly relies on multicast packets to announce itself on the network.

[stretch]

The option your looking for could also be called IGMP / Isolate AP.

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