Ticket #1062 (investigate enhancement)

Opened 22 months ago

Last modified 17 months ago

Add AirPlay support

Reported by: alex.roc08@… Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Firmware 2.3
Component: fon-plugins Version: N/A
Severity: major
Cc: Hardware: both

Description

Can you add the AirPlay? support to the fonera using shairport?

Here you can found this opensource program

 https://github.com/albertz/shairport

Thank you :)

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Changed 19 months ago by anonymous

That would be great!

Changed 17 months ago by anonymous

Would be Great!

Changed 17 months ago by matthijs

  • status changed from new to investigate
  • version changed from 2.3.7.0 beta1 to N/A
  • type changed from request to enhancement
  • severity changed from unknown to major
  • milestone set to Firmware 2.3

Having shairport would indeed be cool, but there's two initial hurdles:

  • It requires perl (with a few extra modules), which is not available on the fonera right now (and might be too big) This probably means it this would need to become a plugin like Tranmission, to be installed on an external USB drive (making it more complex, perhaps the fmg plugin system needs to be rewritten anyway).
  • Shairport contains a reverse engineered cryptographic key, I'm not completely sure what the legal status of that is (so Fon might not want to take the risk of distributing it).

In any case, this won't be soon, but I'll tag this ticket for the 2.3 cycle so we keep it in the picture. If anyone wants to try to build a plugin for this, I'll be happy to provide answers and support.

Changed 17 months ago by alex.roc08@…

NotJJ developed this plugin with the music plugin but shairport requires alsa and the notjj's version uses OSS

Here it is the forum discussion  http://boards.fon.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2127&p=7747&hilit=airplay&sid=d7aaac1306c61ac380bff30169bba94e#p7747

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