Quickstart¶
Run SSDP discovery from shell¶
Note
SSDP works by sending and receiving multicasts. This sometimes requires
elevated permissions. If you get an error trying to use these commands, try
running them as root (for example, using sudo).
Discover services using SSDP¶
Searching for the special service type ssdp:all should return answers from all
active services.
$ ssdpy-discover ssdp:all
Discover a specific type of service¶
Specify a different service type to only get responses from relevant services. For example, if we want to find all DIAL services (e.g. Chromecast devices):
$ ssdpy-discover urn:dial-multiscreen-org:service:dial:1
Run SSDP Server from shell¶
$ ssdpy-server my-special-service --location 'http://10.0.0.1:8080/hello'
SSDP Discovery from Python¶
from ssdpy import SSDPClient
client = SSDPClient()
SSDP Server from Python¶
from ssdpy import SSDPServer
server = SSDPServer("my-special-service", location="http://192.168.0.100:8080/hello")
server.server_forever()
