soundbridge cannot connect to mt-daapd under linux

[mathias]

I have recently bought a Pinnacle Soundbridge M1001 which I like a lot.

In the cellar I have an old PC Linux server running OpenSuSE 10.2, and the idea is to serve the music archive from this machine.

When I install Firefly (nightly builds 1498, 1515) with or without avahi-compat-howl, everything seems to work, I get to the web interface and things look normal (with avahi-compat, the server indicates that bonjour is running). However, the soundbridge does _not_ recognize the server.

The windows Firefly version (1.0svn-1459) works without further ado, like a charm. I don’t want to let my windows box on day and night, however.

Firefly under windows uses port 9999. On the linux box I have tried both ports 3689 and 9999, to no avail.

Please, anybody, help me! What am I missing? I really would like to get this setup to work.

[rpedde]

@mathias wrote:

I have recently bought a Pinnacle Soundbridge M1001 which I like a lot.

In the cellar I have an old PC Linux server running OpenSuSE 10.2, and the idea is to serve the music archive from this machine.

When I install Firefly (nightly builds 1498, 1515) with or without avahi-compat-howl, everything seems to work, I get to the web interface and things look normal (with avahi-compat, the server indicates that bonjour is running). However, the soundbridge does _not_ recognize the server.

The windows Firefly version (1.0svn-1459) works without further ado, like a charm. I don’t want to let my windows box on day and night, however.

Firefly under windows uses port 9999. On the linux box I have tried both ports 3689 and 9999, to no avail.

Please, anybody, help me! What am I missing? I really would like to get this setup to work.

With avahi-compat, make sure you are running the avahi daemon, for starters. Check your process list. Also, I’m not really familiar with opensuse, but check your firewall settings. Try turning them off, first, and if it works, then see if you can turn it back on, but enable multicast.

If you server and the soundbridge are between a wired/wireless boundary — i.e. one of them is wired and the other is wireless, check your router and see if it has an option to enable multicast or IGMP.

That’s what I can think of offhand, anyway.

[mathias]

Thanks for the fast reply.

I should have mentioned that the firewall is disabled. I can connect to mt-daapd on ports 9999 (3689) from another machine and access the web interface. Also, my pinnacle soundbridge m1001 uses software version 2.7.78 (the newest).

The problem with the wireless/wired boundary should apply to the windows server too. The router has no such options, but obviously it works with the windows server.

When I start avahi befor mt-daapd, mt-daapd indicates that Bonjour is stopped, when I start it afterwards or not at all, on the web interface everything seems o.k. It doesn’t make a difference though.

Should itunes recognize mt-daapd? It doesn’t either.

Well, obviously I’m missing something. What is it?

Thanks again!

[rpedde]

@mathias wrote:

Thanks for the fast reply.

I should have mentioned that the firewall is disabled. I can connect to mt-daapd on ports 9999 (3689) from another machine and access the web interface. Also, my pinnacle soundbridge m1001 uses software version 2.7.78 (the newest).

The problem with the wireless/wired boundary should apply to the windows server too. The router has no such options, but obviously it works with the windows server.

When I start avahi befor mt-daapd, mt-daapd indicates that Bonjour is stopped, when I start it afterwards or not at all, on the web interface everything seems o.k. It doesn’t make a difference though.

Should itunes recognize mt-daapd? It doesn’t either.

Well, obviously I’m missing something. What is it?

Thanks again!

If you’ve upgraded from stable, try deleting your config file and using the one from the contrib folder (after editing, of course). Sounds like it’s missing the plugins_dir.

[mathias]

Wow, finally it works! I would kiss you if I could — now there are more advantages to cyberspace than might at first be obvious…

I must have compiled various versions of mt-daapd a hundred times. Now this worked for me:

./configure –enable-sqlite –enable-mdns

and in mt-daapd.conf

[general]
web_root = /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
port = 3689
admin_pw = mt-daapd
db_dir = /var/cache/mt-daapd
mp3_dir = /home/mathias/musicke
servername = thermix
runas = mathias
playlist = /etc/mt-daapd.playlist
extensions = .mp3,.m4a,.m4p
[plugins]
plugin_dir = /usr/local/share/mt-daapd/plugins

Seems simple, but took me forever…

Thanks again for your help and support.

Greets, Mathias

[rpedde]

@mathias wrote:

Wow, finally it works! I would kiss you if I could — now there are more advantages to cyberspace than might at first be obvious…

Saved by the intarweb again. 🙂

Thanks again for your help and support.

Greets, Mathias

np. I need to add some attempts to auto-locate the directory… it would help people significantly, as it seems to be a growing problem.

Note to self…

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