How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?

bitrot

@georgecz58 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:

What is actual approach to install this package to 23.01?

Good question. I'd like to know this too. I still have it installed manually as per instructions in this post. The package doesn't appear to be available yet. Not sure what the status is. Bug report is here: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10818

stephenw10

It's not been merged yet so you still need to fetch and install it manually:

[23.01-RELEASE][root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: fetch https://redmine.pfsense.org/attachments/download/4621/pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg
pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg                   12 kB 7983 kBps    00s
[23.01-RELEASE][root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: pkg install pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg 
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay: 1.0 [unknown-repository]
	udpbroadcastrelay: 0.3.b [pfSense]

Number of packages to be installed: 2

15 KiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Fetching udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b.pkg: 100%   15 KiB  15.3kB/s    00:01    
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[2/2] Installing udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b...
Extracting udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b: 100%
[1/2] Installing pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0...
[1/2] Extracting pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0: 100%
Saving updated package information...
done.
Loading package configuration... done.
Configuring package components...
Loading package instructions...
Custom commands...
Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done.
Menu items... done.
Services... done.
Writing configuration... done.

tman222

@stephenw10 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:

It's not been merged yet so you still need to fetch and install it manually:

[23.01-RELEASE][root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: fetch https://redmine.pfsense.org/attachments/download/4621/pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg
pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg                   12 kB 7983 kBps    00s
[23.01-RELEASE][root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: pkg install pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0.pkg 
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay: 1.0 [unknown-repository]
	udpbroadcastrelay: 0.3.b [pfSense]

Number of packages to be installed: 2

15 KiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Fetching udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b.pkg: 100%   15 KiB  15.3kB/s    00:01    
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[2/2] Installing udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b...
Extracting udpbroadcastrelay-0.3.b: 100%
[1/2] Installing pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0...
[1/2] Extracting pfSense-pkg-udpbroadcastrelay-1.0: 100%
Saving updated package information...
done.
Loading package configuration... done.
Configuring package components...
Loading package instructions...
Custom commands...
Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done.
Menu items... done.
Services... done.
Writing configuration... done.

@stephenw10 - with 23.01 having been released, any idea when this might become an official pfSense pacakge? Judging by the Redmine ticket it looks like the majority of the work has already been completed. Is more community testing needed?

stephenw10

It might just need a nudge. Let me see what I can do....

Qinn

Just out of curiosity I tested it with a VM (Oracle) and ran into a php error

PHP errors

    PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /usr/local/pkg/udpbroadcastrelay/udpbroadcastrelay.inc, Line: 458, Message: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function config_get_path() in /usr/local/pkg/udpbroadcastrelay/udpbroadcastrelay.inc:458
    Stack trace:
    #0 /usr/local/pkg/udpbroadcastrelay/udpbroadcastrelay.inc(202): udpbr_get_settings(true)
    #1 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(802) : eval()'d code(1): udpbr_resync()
    #2 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(802): eval()
    #3 /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(928): eval_once('udpbr_resync();')
    #4 /etc/rc.packages(76): install_package_xml('udpbroadcastrel...')
    #5 {main}
    thrown @ 2023-03-20 13:53:47

stephenw10

You should add that to the open redmine issue: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10818

What version were you testing against there?

Qinn

@stephenw10 You mean Oracle VM or pfS version?

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 7.0.6 r155176 (Qt5.15.2)
pfS 2.6.0 release CE

stephenw10

The pfSense and pkg versions.
And also what exactly you did to trigger it. It seems to work as expected for me in 23.01.

Steve

stephenw10

Ah, Ok. Note that the package build 26/12/2022 that's on the redmine is for 2.7 or 23.01 only right now.

Qinn

Missed out that one ;) try an install on the beta (2.7.0) soon

tman222

Looks like udpbroadcastrelay will be included as a pfSense package in 23.05 - great news!

https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-plus-software-version-23.05-rc-now-available

stephenw10

Yup:

Screenshot from 2023-05-11 11-57-14.png

tman222

@stephenw10 - that looks great! Do you know if it's possible to define more than two interfaces per udpbroadcastrelay instance in the pfSense package version? When running from the command line one can issue multiple -dev options to support more than two interfaces per instance. Thanks in advance.

stephenw10

Yes:

Screenshot from 2023-05-13 22-03-29.png

tman222

@stephenw10 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:

Yes:

Awesome - looking forward to trying the package with the release of 23.05 and retiring the command line version I have been running since pfSense 2.4.5.

tman222

Updated my original instructions post above to reflect that udpbroadcastrelay is now available as a package as of pfSense Plus 23.05.

bitrot

@tman222 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:

Awesome - looking forward to trying the package with the release of 23.05 and retiring the command line version I have been running since pfSense 2.4.5.

Same. To switch, do you simply, remove the commands from Shellcmd, install the package and setup from the GUI? Or do we also have to uninstall the cli udpbroadcastrelay package that was installed from ports first?

stephenw10

If you install the pfSense package it would normally pull in the udprelay pkg as a dependency. Since you already have it installed I expect it will simply not do that. You should not need to remove it.

bitrot

@stephenw10 said in How can I get this UDP relay package for casting across VLANs?:

If you install the pfSense package it would normally pull in the udprelay pkg as a dependency. Since you already have it installed I expect it will simply not do that. You should not need to remove it.

Thanks. This worked for me.
Here are the steps I took.

make a manual backup of my configuration
make another manual backup of my configuration via "Auto Config Backup"
Installed the UDP Broadcast Relay package from the web interface
Added the instances but left them disabled. Also left the service itself disabled for now.
removed the instances I previously added via Shellcmd
rebooted the firewall
enabled the UDP Broadcast Relay service from the web gui and enabled the instances I had added in step 4 above

Works as expected. Huge thanks to everyone who made this happen!!!

sh500

Thanks to all involved in creating this.

I am now able to cast to 'Google Home device/speaker groups' across VLANs, which wasn't previously possible.