chincheta0815 wrote:
> Hej there,
>
> following my previous posts concerning the visibility of shairport-sync
> I got some feedback from mikebrady the dev of shairport-sync. He says
> that it seems that tinysvcmdns has come to its limits making propagation
> of airplay error prone.
> He asked if there is any avahi support on piCorePlayer. As of now it
> seems that there is just tinysvcmdns compiled into shairport-sync on
> PiCorePlayer.
> Here is his comment on the issue on github:
> https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/issues/1098#issuecomment-783501488
>
>
> Is there the possibility to have an updated pcp-shaiport extension that
> uses avahi to get rid of the propagation issues?
> TinyCore seems to have an avahi extension already available. Its use
> could also take the task of pcpmdns...
chincheta0815 wrote:
> Hej Greg,
>
> the shaiport-sync of piCore is not too old to be honest. Its version
> 3.3.7 so one of the latest.
> It also works well, the only issue there is with mdns...
>
> Using the LMS Plugin does not help if there is no possiblity for an LMS
> due to performance and complexity.
> If one just needs an "Airplay speaker" with all the possibilities of
> piCorePlayer this would be better.
> Having all the different options for Player instances makes PiCore the
> best image for music player purposes for Raspberry Pis.
> Different media packages are far complexer, bigger and not working out
> of the box as PiCorePlayer - even though they sometime charge you...
>
> Disabling broadcast .local does not help at all. There is an issue with
> tinysvcmds that is bult into shairport-sync.
> Without solving this issue in shairport-sync it seems feasbile to either
> drop support for shairport-sync in picore or build it with avahi.
> That is at least how I understood the shairport-sync dev Mike.
> The latter would make it work (at leat it does on a plain RaspberryPiOS)
> and maybe makes the system leaner and stable as there is a proven avahi
> as one service for all mdns (shaiport, broadcast .local, etc.).
paul- wrote:
> Avahi will not be included in the base image, it is a horribly bloated
> package. Ralphy maintains shairport-sync for us, if he wants to
> transition it back to avahi, I'll leave it up to him.
The avahi extension available in the tinycore 12.0 repository pulls in
the entire x-windows subsystem, which is crazy.
Here are all the extensions loaded just for the avahi daemon.
Code:
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-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 319488 Feb 23 09:57 libevent.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 1417216 Feb 23 09:57 gettext.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 32768 Feb 23 09:57 intltool.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 16384 Feb 23 09:57 libltdl.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 12288 Feb 23 09:57 libdaemon.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 2957312 Feb 23 09:57 gobject-introspection.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 69632 Feb 23 09:57 xtrans.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 36864 Feb 23 09:57 util-macros.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 323584 Feb 23 09:57 xorg-proto.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 192512 Feb 23 09:57 xcb-proto.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 12288 Feb 23 09:57 libXdmcp.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 8192 Feb 23 09:57 libXau.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 266240 Feb 23 09:57 libxcb.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 966656 Feb 23 09:57 libX11.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 16384 Feb 23 09:57 libSM.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 303104 Feb 23 09:57 dbus.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 45056 Feb 23 09:57 dbus-dev.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 12288 Feb 23 09:57 nss-mdns.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 163840 Feb 23 09:57 libavahi.tcz
-rw-r--r-- 1 tc staff 98304 Feb 23 09:57 avahi.tcz
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I don't use shairport-sync these days, so I'm inclined to just remove it
from the next pcp release, unless Mike B decides to fix the included
tinymdns support.
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