Forwarder Multiple instances not working

[RaymondMouthaan]

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Hi guys,

Thanks for the great work on this amazing piece of software!

I am trying to setup a multiple hyperion instance configuration, but after a few days of trying I just can't figure it out. I've read this https://hyperion-project.org/threads/forwarder-on-coreelec-proto-hyperionrequest-missing-command.3585/ and followed the steps.

Your help is very much appreciated!

Bug report

Not sure whether it's a bug or I just missed something in my configuration.

Steps to reproduce

• Two Raspberry PI 3B, resp. hyperion-1 and hyperion-2

hyperion-1

• 2.0.0-alpha.6 installed
• Forwarder activated
  • json target 1: 10.10.1.11:19444
  • flatbuffer target 1: 10.10.1.11:19400
• Platform Capture deactivated
• USB Capture activated
• LED device activated
  • Controller Type: adalight

This instance controls a ws2813 ledstrip (271 leds) behind my TV perfectly fine, while playing a movie or using the hyperion app on my iPhone.

hyperion-2

• 2.0.0-alpha.6 installed

• Forwarder deactivated

• Platform Capture deactivated

• USB Capture deactivated

• LED device activated

  • Controller Type: adalight

• Json Server port: 19444

• Flatbuffers Server port: 19400

This instance controls a ws2813 ledstrip (140 leds). Using the hyperion app on my iPhone the effects and color wheel controls the ledstrip as expected.

What is expected?

That hyperion-1 forwards to json target and flatbuffer, while hyperion-2 receives this data and controls the secondary ledstrip.

What is actually happening?

From the hyperion-1 logs is seems it connects to hyperion-2:

 [hyperiond FLATBUFCONNECTION] (INFO) Connecting to Hyperion: 10.10.1.11:19400
 [hyperiond NETFORWARDER] (INFO) Forward now to json targets '10.10.1.11:19444'
 [hyperiond NETFORWARDER] (INFO) Forward now to flatbuffer targets '10.10.1.11:19400'

However at hyperion-2 there is nothing to see in the logging related to the connection and the ledstrip isn't controlled as expected.

System

Hyperion-1

Hyperion Server:

• Build: (HEAD detached at f5583de8) (Sersch-f7865b45/f5583de8-1590611619)
• Build time: May 27 2020 21:11:33
• Git Remote: https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion.ng
• Version: 2.0.0-alpha.6
• UI Lang: auto (BrowserLang: en-gb)
• UI Access: expert
• Avail Capt: dispmanx,v4l2,framebuffer,qt

Hyperion Server OS:

• Distribution: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
• Arch: arm
• Kernel: linux (4.19.118-v7+ (WS: 32))
• Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Hyperion-2

Hyperion Server:

• Build: (HEAD detached at f5583de8) (Sersch-f7865b45/f5583de8-1590611619)
• Build time: May 27 2020 21:11:33
• Git Remote: https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion.ng
• Version: 2.0.0-alpha.6
• UI Lang: auto (BrowserLang: en-gb)
• UI Access: expert
• Avail Capt: dispmanx,v4l2,framebuffer,qt

Hyperion Server OS:

• Distribution: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
• Arch: arm
• Kernel: linux (4.19.118-v7+ (WS: 32))
• Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

[szlop]

I've got a setup similar to this with adalight and forwarding to a Raspberry Pi and I experienced the same problems. Today I compiled #820 and my setup is working fine since.

[RaymondMouthaan]

I've got a setup similar to this with adalight and forwarding to a Raspberry Pi and I experienced the same problems. Today I compiled #820 and my setup is working fine since.

Thanks for the tip! I'll try that branch as well 👍

[RaymondMouthaan]

@szlop , your right #820 fixes this issue as well, thanks! 👍🏽