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Avahi is a free zeroconf implementation - A service discovery protocol. It can be used to find services on a network and also to publish services to be found by other Zeroconf clients.

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Android NsdManager periodically lost+found avahi daemon service

I have linux PC with installed avahi-daemon (default config) and registered service test.local. From iOS discovering test.local service thru Bonjour works like a charm but from Android not. Nsd Manager periodically (every second) call…
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Can Avahi publish twice the same service name over the network?

I'm trying to write a C program that allows me to publish a service over the local network. I'm using Avahi to publish this service named download and of type _lzo._tcp. Basically, I deployed this C program in 2 raspberry-pi boards which both have…
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How to discover network services on domain other than .local domain in Android?

I want to use Android Network Service Discovery (NSD) function to discover some local network services advertised on local domain. I read the official documentation on Android website about Android NSD. I can find the network services advertised on…
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Using Avahi ServiceBrowser with (PyQt5) QtDbus and connected slots are not called

I'm having a problem using the QtDbus in PyQt5. What I would like to do is discover a certain Avahi-/Zeroconf service type "_mumble._tcp". When I start my script I can see the signals being emitted in dbus-monitor --system when I start/stop the…
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How could I create an AVAHI client & server using C++?

I'm coding a C++ library that, among other things, needs to: Search for a specific service in a network using AVAHI Publish itself as a service using AVAHI I've been searching for existent options. I've found that the creators of POCO C++ offer a…
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Accessing Avahi through dbus-send

In the process of hacking around with dbus-monitor, I tried connecting to the Avahi daemon: $ dbus-monitor --system \ "type='signal',interface='org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server',member='StateChanged'" This will respond to changes in the state of the…
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How to set up autoip with local-link (RNDIS) on linux and embedded linux

I'm trying to figure out how to automatically setup an zeroconfig network address on a RNDIS Usb Gadget. currently when i plug in the device, on the device i have to $ modprobe g_ether $ ifconfig usb0 up $ avahi-autoipd usb0 & and on the host i…
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Browsing avahi services with python misses services

I need a class which gives me a list of avahi services of a certain type which a currently available. Therefor I run a gobject.MainLoop() (line 23-25) in a separate thread an add a browser for each service I am interested in (line 27,28). This works…
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multi-threaded avahi resolving causes segfault

I'm attempting to port my zeronconf-enabled C/C++ app to Linux, however I'm getting D-BUS related segfaults. I'm not sure if this is a bug in Avahi, my misuse of Avahi, or a bug in my code. I am using a ZeroconfResolver object that encapsulates an…
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Problems compiling avahi into Android NDK project

Over the last few days I've been having a difficult time trying to build avahi into a static or shared library for use with an existing Android NDK project. We have a few games in the App and Play stores and my task is to get multiplayer working in…
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How to 'avahi-browse' from a docker container on MacOS?

My application needs avahi-browse support from within a docker container. Is there any solution to support avahi-browse within a docker container on MacOS? How to 'avahi-browse' from a docker container? The steps in the answer from the link above…
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mDNS (Avahi) working TO RPis but not between them

Avahi/mDNS is running by default on recent versions of Raspian. Great. Very convenient to just ssh pi@mypi.local. I am doing development on a Mac and operating a local network of headless Raspberry Pis. Up until now, I was able to use mDNS to access…
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Can avahi-daemon send mDNS service "down" on OS shutdown?

I have set up a avahi daemon to publish my service on a RPi, and have successfully found the service on a different PC using an mDNS client library. The mDNS library (javascript) has event callbacks for the service being "up" or "down". The…
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How do I pass a struct into the browse_callback and then further down to resolve_callback in avahi?

I want to populate a widget whenever a service is successfully resolved in avahi. Since most of the information required to populate is available inside resolve_callback(), I need this widget to be present inside it. But resolve_callback() being a…
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Can Linux mDNS client be "pure" client?

I found some famous mDNS clients, such as nss-mdns, Avahi-browse, are dependent on avahi-daemon. However, if we start avahi-daemon, the client machine also publish its mDNS domain name and become a mDNS server. Is there a mDNS client in Linux that…
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