First of all, thanks for your quick answers! See my comments below.
mherger wrote: > Heck... this is a FAQ, but I can't find a good response of mine which I > could quote :-D. Therefore I'll try to write it up now, and keep a > reference to this posting around. Here we go: > > A few parameters come into play when you want to be able to control a > Connect enabled Spotty instance: > > > > - Network - Spotty's announcement mode - User account - The Spotify app's configuration > > > > > In the simplest case your mobile device running the Spotify app would > be connected to the same network where LMS was running, and Spotty > would be able to announce its availability in your network. In that > case any user would see the player. > > -> The phones with Spotify on it an the players are in a different > network/VLAN then the LMS server. User A is able to cast to the > players, user B not. I just connected user B to the VLAN of the LMS > server, it then works, the players are shown. So this configuration is > working, but normally, I have my wireless clients in a separate VLAN. > I still do not understand why it is working for user A and not for > user B when the phones are not in the same network as the LMS server > (see also comment below). > > Sometimes Spotty fails to announce its clients in your network. In > that case the Spotify app would only see the players Spotify's servers > know about. This is limited to the players configured to user your > user account. In this case other users can't see your players. > > -> I do not understand how this is configured. I added two Spotify > accounts in LMS and I have two players. I can not assign a player to > the user, so how is this configured/handled within LMS? Where can I > add the players also for user B? > > Even worse if you configured your Spotify app to only show local > players: in this case the app would ignore the information from > Spotify's servers. Thus not seeing players connected to Spotify, nor > those in your network (because Spotty's announcements fail). > > -> This is not the case, this is not turned on in Spotify. > > So, if your second user does not see your players, it's likely due to > Spotty failing the local announcements: in this case the Spotify > relies on the list of devices known to your account. As that's > different for your other user, he can't see your player. You'd see the > "Don't announce Squeezebox players..." option checked in > Settings/Advanced/Spotty if that was the case. That pref is set > automatically if the helper crashes regularly. You can try to remove > it. But it would likely be set again after a few minutes if there was > a problem with the spotty helper. > > -> The options "Don't announce Squeezebox players...." is not turned > on ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jenssen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69496 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110455 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
