RaspyFi - Topic: Airplay wont start

Alex on Airplay wont start

Sat, 02 Nov 2013 06:55:36 +0100

Had the same problem. Issue is related to avahi-daemon.
Try to run following:
sudo service avahi-daemon restart

If you see something like this:
avahi-daemon ... because there is a unicast .local domain ... (warning).

You have need to make fix in file:
nano /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon

Find the line starting with DISABLE_TAG and change the filename to an invalid file, like this:
DISABLE_TAG="/var/run/avahi-daemon/disabled-for-unicast-local-DISABLED"
(Note DISABLED at the end)

Restart avahi-daemon and make sure it is run on boot:
service avahi-daemon restart
chkconfig avahi-daemon on

Alex on Airplay wont start

Sat, 02 Nov 2013 06:55:08 +0100

Had the same problem. Issue is related to avahi-daemon.
Try to run following:
sudo service avahi-daemon restart

If you see something like this:
avahi-daemon ... because there is a unicast .local domain ... (warning).

You have need to make fix in file:
nano /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon

Find the line starting with DISABLE_TAG and change the filename to an invalid file, like this:
DISABLE_TAG="/var/run/avahi-daemon/disabled-for-unicast-local-DISABLED"
(Note DISABLED at the end)

Restart avahi-daemon and make sure it is run on boot:
service avahi-daemon restart
chkconfig avahi-daemon on

Johan on Airplay wont start

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 07:50:33 +0200

PaulM said

You mean you cannot see it on your laptop/PC as Airplay device? Have you tried temporarily disabling your firewall? Most probably that is blocking it. At least, that was the problem I had with my Symantec firewall. I'm still figuring out how exactly to enable Airplay within Symantec without disabling my firewall altogether. If you're using Windows Firewall it should be a lot easier.

Thanks for the help..
No, I cannot see it as an available device from tuneblade or itunes. I do not think it is a firewall issue since both my boxeebox and raspbmc is listed as available devices from my PC and to my knowledge raspbmc uses the same airplay software? Anyawy, I tried to diable the win firewall without any success.

PaulM on Airplay wont start

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:12:49 +0200

You mean you cannot see it on your laptop/PC as Airplay device? Have you tried temporarily disabling your firewall? Most probably that is blocking it. At least, that was the problem I had with my Symantec firewall. I'm still figuring out how exactly to enable Airplay within Symantec without disabling my firewall altogether. If you're using Windows Firewall it should be a lot easier.

Johan on Airplay wont start

Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:35:35 +0200

First, thanks for all the great work you have out into raspyfi!

Everything works flawless except airplay.
After copying the latest release a sd card and booting the system Raspyfi is not listed as airplay device on neither itunes or tuneblade.

After trying to manually start shairplay i get the following message:

pi@Raspyfi:/etc/init.d$ shairport
Listening for connections.
Failed to create client object: Daemon not running
FATAL: MDNS child process died unexpectedly!
Shutting down...

Have I missed anything? :S