AirPortExpress

Pointers

• http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?AirTunes - lots of random links and info
• http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/DesigningAirPortNetworks.pdf - designing airport networks

RAOP Play -

raop_play is a music file player for Apple Airport Express and unix

• http://raop-play.sourceforge.net/
• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119473

Features

• Make AEX become your 2'nd sound card device. http://raop-play.sourceforge.net/alsa_raoppcm.html
• Discover Airport Express by Apple Rendezvous
• Browse music files - (Supported music file format: m4a(alac or aac), wav, mp3, ogg, aac, pls, raw pcm)
• Send selected files to the Airport Express
• Play mp3 stream data (filename started with "http://")

SNMP

• http://polydistortion.net/monkey/archives/2005/05/24/003244.html
• SNMP
• download the airport express mib
• install in mibs directory, freebsd = /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/
• use WPA password for community string

  snmpwalk -v 2c -c <password> <hostname> 1.3.6.1.4.1.63.501

ethernet bridge

UPDATE Sun Dec 4, 2005 2:26 am - Apparently this just works now... I'm able to plug in to the ethernet port on the airport express in my living room, and am connected to the internet through the aiprort express in my office. And I'm using WPA. Sweeet!

• http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=editorsnotes&Number=231664&page=0&view=collapsed
• http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/archives/000211.php