dolodobendan wrote: > I installed the AirPlay bridge on my new Ubuntu server. I didn't have to > do anything, it worked right out of the box. That's quite a different > experience from what I'm used to from my NAS installation. The only > thing was that I had to enable a player manually -after- renaming it > (that umlaut-thing I mentioned). > > If I may make a suggestion: > > At the moment, the players get their LMS name based on a MAC address > (the BBB... one, I think). I don't know how it works with other devices, > but with Sonos speakers, it looks like this: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > "Küche aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa BBBBBBBBBBBB@Küche._raop._tcp.local Sonos-BBBBBBBBBBBB" > -------------------- > > > > If other devices also announce their given name (like "Küche" in this > example) in the AirPlay bridge, what about using that name instead of > the MAC address? Not a big thing, really, but they get a name assigned > anyway.
Normally, AirPlay devices announce their name which is used, not the mac address, unless there is nothing else 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=105198
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