Linux Problem with airtunes

Keir · 2012-08-01 00:18

I'm having real problems getting airtunes working on my XBMC. I've enabled it in the config screen and installed libshairport however XBMC still isnt showing up as a speaker on either my itunes or in banshee/rhythmbox/volume control. I ran avahi-discover and it does seem to "see" XBMC advertising itself:

Service Type: _airplay._tcp
Service Name: XBMC (Red)
Domain Name: local
Interface: eth0 IPv4
Address: Red.local/192.168.0.4:36667
TXT model = AppleTV2,1
TXT srcvers = 101.28
TXT features = 0x77
TXT deviceid = C8:60:0:BC:F2:32

I am running Xubuntu 12.04 with the XBMC from the XvBA PPA. Anyone got any ideas how I can fix this?

**Memphiz** · 2012-08-01 10:19

This is the airplay announcement not the airtunes announcement. Seems your PPA doesn't include airtunes support - for beeing sure post a xbmc.log but you would see a raop._tcp announcment if the PPA maintainer would have done it right during compiletime.

guilmxm · 2012-08-01 15:35

Hi,

Which XBMC xvba are you running ? (wsnipex's ppa have airplay support builtin)

See : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996&page=95

And try:

Quote:Hi, for your airplay issue, i had some trouble recently i think because of an upgrade, i advise you to:

- enable debug airplay by adding this line into your ~/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

<enableairtunesdebuglog>1</enableairtunesdebuglog>

- ensure you installed avahi-daemon and libshairport, and that avahi-daemon is running:

sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon libshairport1
sudo service avahi-daemon status

- deactivate and reactivate airplay service and check xbmc log, if you see:

ERROR: Unable to load libshairport.so.0, reason: libshairport.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Then you have to apply this:
cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ && sudo ln -s libshairport.so.1.0.0 libshairport.so.0

and deactivate / re-activate and re-test.

Have you activated UFW as the firewall in your system ? (sudo ufw status) if you did and haven't authorized your local network it could off course prevent your device from being seen by your iphone/ipad