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I am writing a simple app to interact with DAAP (itunes shares). I would like to use pyzeroconf as the zeroconf library, but I am running into some problems with it. Is this project still maintained, or would I be better off using another library instead (like Avahi)?
In hopes that someone will respond, this is my problem.
Under linux, when I do a call to Zeroconf.getServiceInfo it always returns None. I saw that someone else had this issue and fixed it by changing his /etc/hosts file. I have played around with that, but was not able to get the same results.
Here is an example. If I run the test in Zeroconf.py, this is the result:
Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python, version 0.12
1. Testing registration of a service...
Registering service...
Registration done.
2. Testing query of service information...
Getting ZOE service: None
Query done.
3. Testing query of own service...
Getting self: None
Query done.
4. Testing unregister of service information...
Unregister done.
Notice that under 3 "Getting ZOE service: None" shows that the object returned from getServiceInfo is none.
I could really use some help here.
For the record, I'm having the exact same problem. In fact whenever I call getServiceInfo I am returned None. I an experiencing this problem on both Apple OSX (Tiger) and Linux Ubuntu. Any help would be appreciated...
I have written a patch that fixes this issue and also the issue of Zeroconf.py not detecting services on startup. This patch has fixed all of the problems that I have experienced, but I am only using a subset of the Zeroconf.py features so I don't know if it breaks anything in the process (I am only using the library to connect to services, not to create any services).
The patch is here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1600775&group_id=100909&atid=628622
Thanks very (very, very!) much, that works a treat. I'm now able to discover services without any problems.
For the record, if I run the test in Zeroconf.py, this is now the result:
Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python, version 0.12
1. Testing registration of a service...
Registering service...
Registration done.
2. Testing query of service information...
Getting ZOE service: None
Query done.
3. Testing query of own service...
Getting self: service[My Service Name._http._tcp.local.,127.0.0.1:1234, a=test value ver...]
Query done.
4. Testing unregister of service information...
Unregister done.
Hi!
Since the project appears to be abandoned on sourceforge, and there is no code in CVS, I have registered this project in launchpad so that I can apply the patches which are sitting in the tracker. If Paul shows up I will gladly hand over control of the project to him.
The project page is here: https://launchpad.net/pyzeroconf
And there is a bazaar branch which has the 3 patches from sourceforge applied. I will apply other patches or give other people commit access if anyone is actively working with this code.
cheers,
-elliot