mark-in-seattle wrote: > -"Usually the config file is not very needed for CC devices. Having > devices entries in there does NOT create the device, but it helps > configuring it AFTER it is detected during a search"- > That is good to know, had assumed only devices appearing in the config > file would be available to CC-Bridge plugin and LMS in turn. > > Have experience with networking and do not believe any changes have been > made to my local network LAN, the QNAP NAS, the Unifi AP's providing the > wireless speakers with their network connection, ethernet switches > ...etc. All the CC-speakers are visible to my iPhone on the network > thru VLC's music player interface so I can send music from my iPhone > using VLC to the CC-speakers over the same physical network. The > ethernet switch portion of the QNAP QGD-1600 NAS(?) connects the Unifi > AP's to the rest of the network, so if my iPhone on the network can use > VLC to cast music to the CC-speakers, then LMS running on the same QNAP > in the past has always been able to connect to them using your excellent > CC-Bridge LMS plugin. > > Doubly puzzling because these same (4) wireless chromecast speakers and > older Squeezebox devices have worked fine playing music from the LMS > server running on my QNAP QGD-1600 NAS/switch. > > As mentioned previously the SB devices on the same network subnet still > play music from the QNAP LMS server which runs 24/7. When the CC > speakers did not appear in either the Material-Skin LMS GUI interface or > the native LMS GUI interface I made sure that LMS was still active on > the QNAP, which it was, however at the top of the native GUI "Plugins" > tab there was a notice that the Chromecast Bridge plugin had an update > available. I checked [x] the CC-Bridge for updating then --> [APPLY]. > The expected things happened: LMS was restarted ...etc, but still my (4) > CC-wireless speakers were not visible in the LMS interface. > > Without knowing the CC wireless speakers UID numbers I assume it would > be difficult to manually create the missing castbridge.xml file. > Perhaps there is a utility which reveals these UID numbers. I do have > the MAC addresses of the CC-speakers. > > Still hoping there might be a method to force the castbridge.xml file to > be generated by Chromecast-Bridge and then attempt to edit it to help > LMS see my wireless speakers. I have another LMS server running with > your Chromecast-Bridge plugin, however it is at a remote location and > not available to me at this time. Might try installing LMS server with > CC-Bridge just to generate the castbridge.xml config file and then copy > it with SSH over to my QNAP LMS server. > > Wondering if there are reasons why the CC-Bridge plugin GUI button > [CREATE] does not generate the castbridge.xml file when invoked ? > > Thank you again for giving me some insight that may lead to more things > to try in troubleshooting this issue. > > PS. I tried uninstalling the CC-Bridge plugin, restarting the > LMS-server .... re-installing the CC-Bridge plugin, restarting the > LMS-server, however the CC-speakers were still not visible and the > castbridge.xml config file did not exist.
Yes, the "create" only add entries to the XML file for devices that answer to the broadcast request. This means (to be confirmed by a log) that none of your devices answers the "broadcast" request. If you're familiar with networking, it works using mDNS service discovery. That can be subject to issue with multicast packets that can be filtered out my repeaters and routers (IGMP snooping). Can you get a log? LMS 8.2 on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
