BTW, the Hyperfine Remote, the Android app I want to use, appears as "Remote for iTunes" when turned on to look for iTunes and queried on Raspbmc or some other Linux with
avahi-browse -r -k _touch-remote._tcp
After putting the name and the code in the .remote file as described all over the 'net, the Remote app was picked up, and started showing my music library. However, no sound. And no switching. All I got was
[2013-05-29 02:16:31] player: Could not open local audio [2013-05-29 02:16:31] player: Could not activate local audio output [2013-05-29 02:16:31] dacp: Speakers de/activation failed! [2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: cannot find card '0'[2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory[2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: error evaluating strings[2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory[2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: error evaluating name[2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory[2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: Evaluate error: No such file or directory[2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: Unknown PCM default[2013-05-29 02:17:30] laudio: Could not open playback device: No such file or directory
in the forked-daapd log.
Turns out Raspbmc doesn't have local sound support with ALSA and installed. I found and followed the good man Jeff Skinner and his instructions here. And edited /etc/asound.conf to read
pi@raspbmc:~$ more /etc/asound.conf pcm.!default { type hw card 0 } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 }
And: Local sound works!! No drops, so that part's great. But even though I see the AirPlay speakers registered with forked-daapd in its log (on debug level), and I do see them in the remote app as a choice in the app's volume settings. Clicking it briefly flashes a "Switching [...]" message, but it reverts back to the local speakers' choice. I do see this message in the log:
[2013-05-29 09:07:03] dacp: DACP request: /ctrl-int/1/getspeakers?session-id=100
but no other error message, so not probably not too bad (call me a hopeless optimist!). Perhaps I need to add the Airplay speaker to the DB. Suggestions welcome!
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