This adds the new AirPort service to the default-mdns-profile so that Controller will add the AirPort Discovery service to the supported AirPort Devices. When you play music on your iPhone and select sources, you should now see that AirPlay. Click on the icon to see the list of AirPlay capable speakers available on your.
Under the Services List, choose the new AirPort Service in the Service Name Drop Down.Ĭlick ADD. Use a 3.5mm audio cable to connect the Airport Express to the speaker or audio system’s AUX input. Open iTunes on your network-connected Mac or PC and look for the AirPlay icon.
You will then need to add this new custom Service to the default-mdns-profile.
stations: How to set up and configure AirPort Express for AirPlay and iTunes. This adds the necessary mDNS Service Name to the mDNS Service Provider Master Database which allows the Apple AirPort Utility on an iPhone or Mac/PC Laptop on the WLAN to discover AirPort devices on the Wired network (or vice versa). Apples AirPlay technology streams music losslessly over a home network. This allows you to create a custom mDNS Service Review: Apple AirPort Express with AirTunes. On a Cisco WLC Wireless Lan Controller 2504 running 8.0.115 firmware, Navigate to the Web GUI: Using the Apple AirPort Utility (either on iPhone or Mac/PC) I was Unable to discover my AirPort devices from an iPhone on the WLAN (connecting to AirPort on Wired) until I manually added in the custom airport mDNS Service.
I also would like to see possibility for the Bonjour/MDNS implementation in the WLC to filter out link-local addresses not to be snooped at all.Īnyone found a workaround for this behaviour ? Is it a bug ? It seems that this behaviour is built into the A-Expresses and probably has to do with the fact that it should be possible to find an A-express from the Airport setup utility program on the PC/MAC without the A-express having an IP adress first. After a reboot of an Airport Express I can see that the correct real IP address is snooped, but after a short time it falls over to the link local .x address, clients ( iPads for example ) see the Airport express just fine but cannot send audio to it since it tries to send to the link-local IP instead of the real one. AppleTV announces only it's real IP adress for the _raop._tcp service but the Airport express announces both its real ip adress and an ipv4 link local ( .x ) address. We have three Apple TV's which works perfectly both picture/sound - problems seems to be the implementation of the Airport Express in combination with Bonjour GW in the WLC.Īfter som troubleshooting I can see that there is a difference how Apple TV and Airport Express announce their Bonjour services in regards to the airtunes service ( _raop._tcp ). Mdns snooping enabled for Airplay and Airtunes. WLC is running 7.4.115 and clients are sitting on a 2602 flexconnect ( Multimedia SSID is switched centrally ).
We have issues with Airplay for Apple Airport express boxes.