Shairport service not discoverable within same subnet

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Since my recent upgrade to Turris OS 5 with my omnia, I’ve been having issues with shairport (AirPlay) in my home setup.

Is there any mDNS issue or setting I need to look at to allow broadcasts to happen between switches and AP that extend the signal?

I can typically only discover AirPlay devices that are close to a specific switch/AP and only when I switch Wi-Fi AP range, I can then see the other “belonging” air play devices. This limitation only happens with Linux based shairport enabled devices but not with Apple airplay ones (appletv/minipods/LG TVs).

Also if not mainly, when directly served by omnia’s Wi-FI to my iOS device which is seeking airplay devices, I can’t see the shairport at all. If I move the shairport device and connect it to another wired AP switch then it shows up only if the client is also close by to the same AP.

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I’ve disabled Omnia’s WIFI. All works fine now. Thansk all for the precious input.

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And are you so satisfied?

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Hi Viktor, well not really but this workaround is at least allowing to send music to Moode player (https://moodeaudio.org) for the time being. Wish I could have identified the specific root cause, but with all my testing I could not go any further.
At some point I gave each AP (including Omnia) a different SSID and only when connected to the Omnia WIFI, I could not see the shairport resource.

Also tried to disable multicast snooping but no luck ([SOLVED] mDNS/Avahi/Zeroconf on bridges (e.g. br-lan)).

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