Add autodiscovery for Jellyfin servers (#1146)

* Add autodiscovery for Jellyfin servers

* Remove debugging aids

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* Fix linter errors

* Send a discovery packet to localhost too
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Henry
2025-09-26 23:53:19 +01:00
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parent bca4a14f2e
commit e344adfeed
6 changed files with 237 additions and 91 deletions
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import { createSocket } from 'dgram';
import { ipcMain } from 'electron';
import { DiscoveredServerItem, ServerType } from '/@/shared/types/types';
type JellyfinResponse = {
Address: string;
Id: string;
Name: string;
};
function discoverAll(reply: (server: DiscoveredServerItem) => void) {
return Promise.all([discoverJellyfin(reply)]);
}
function discoverJellyfin(reply: (server: DiscoveredServerItem) => void) {
const sock = createSocket('udp4');
sock.on('message', (msg) => {
try {
const response: JellyfinResponse = JSON.parse(msg.toString('utf-8'));
reply({
name: response.Name,
type: ServerType.JELLYFIN,
url: response.Address,
});
} catch (e) {
// Got a spurious response, ignore?
console.error(e);
}
});
sock.bind(() => {
sock.setBroadcast(true);
// Send a broadcast packet to both loopback and default route, allowing discovery of same-machine instances
sock.send('who is JellyfinServer?', 7359, '127.255.255.255');
sock.send('who is JellyfinServer?', 7359, '255.255.255.255');
});
return new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
setTimeout(() => {
sock.close();
resolve();
}, 3000);
});
}
ipcMain.on('autodiscover-ping', (ev) => {
if (ev.ports.length === 0) throw new Error('Expected a port to stream autodiscovery results');
const port = ev.ports[0];
discoverAll((result) => port.postMessage(result))
.then(() => port.close())
.catch((err) => console.error(err));
});
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import './autodiscover';
import './lyrics';
import './player';
import './remote';