AirPlay sound only receiver

[AngryFarmer]

Hello everyone,

I'm running OpenELEC on my Raspberry Pi type B. I tried both OpenELEC and Raspbmc install, but whenever I switch on the Airplay receiver in XBMC settings, both iOS6 and iOS7 sees it as sound receiver only.

Is there a fix for this problem?

Thanks,
A.F.

[hausrocker]

Reboot your iDevice or switch off and on wireless again.
But obviously with iOS 7 the airplay feature is broken. The Wiki also says so.
One other information or hint is to disable IPv6:
http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=...v6_Support

[AngryFarmer]

The IPv6 is already disabled, it did not help.

I'll try to reboot the device, but as I said the problem is not only with ios7, but with ios6 aswell.

This is so sad, as I have Google Chromecast for plex/youtube, and all I need is an AirPlay receiver with CEC support (as I have AppleTV, but it has no CEC).

[chewitt]

this was fixed several months ago in the Gotham codebase - use a dev build

[hausrocker]

Thanks for the information. Could you specify which build exactly? Or a schedule to include this in a final build?

edit: Even with google I can not find any download for that software that states that the airplay issue is solved.
So a little bit more information would be really appreciated. Best: A download or a link to a forum or database.

[AngryFarmer]

really strange, that something such important that was fixed months ago, still not published and not included in the official build, or at least written on the download page.
I wish AppleTV could support CEC, because all these 'free software' is not user friendly at all. Sad!

[hausrocker]

AngryFarmer: Did you find that "month ago" released fix?

[chewitt]

http://snapshots.openelec.tv or http://xbmcnightlybuilds.com - the references to fixing anything will be in XBMC's github commit list, and this will be included in OE 4.0 when that is released. If you want CEC on AppleTV buy the Pulse8 USB CEC adaptor.

[hausrocker]

As far as I understand the beta log and readme this kind of developer release might have bugy on several other things: Is there a way to ONLY include the fix for Airplay in the latest 3.2.4 open elec final and stable release?
Those beta releases are not updates but always a complete reinstallation then right?

[chewitt]

No issue to manually update to a dev build and no need to clean install, although if you want to preserve the Frodo setup you need to make a backup of the /storage/.xbmc folders. Gotham is still technically designated as pre-alpha code and under active development but the core codebase is an evolution of Frodo rather than a revolution as was the case between Eden and Frodo so things are quite stable. We might backport Airplay things for a 3.2.5 release .. but then we don't appear to be in a hurry to make a 3.2.5 release so I wouldn't hold your breath.