The installation and setup of Shairport Sync is straightforward on recent Linux distributions. Issues can occasionally arise caused by problems elsewhere in the system, typically WiFi reception and/or the WiFi adapter settings, the network, the router, firewall settings.
In this brief document will be listed some problems and some solutions.
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+### UFW firewall blocking connections on Raspbian (Raspberry Pi)
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+**Problem**
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+You have installed Shairport-sync successfully, the deamon is running, you can see it from your remote terminal but you are unable to play a song.
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+**Before you change anything to your configuration**
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+- Type the following command:
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+ `sudo ufw disable`
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+- Try to launch a song from your remote device on the Shairport-sync one, if this works, proceed to the next step and follow the ones described below, in the solution section.
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+- Enable UFW through the following command:
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+ `sudo ufw enable`
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+**Solution**
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+You have to allow connections to your Pi from remote devices. To do so, after re-enabling UFW (see last stp of the previous section), enter the following commands in shell:
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+```
+sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.1/16 to any port 3689 proto tcp
+sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.1/16 to any port 5353
+sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.1/16 to any port 5000:5005 proto tcp
+sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.1/16 to any port 6000:6005 proto udp
+sudo ufw allow from 192.168.1.1/16 to any port 35000:65535 proto udp
+```
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+You may have to change the IP adresses range depending on your own local network settings.
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+You can check UFW config by typing `sudo ufw status` in shell. Please make sure that UFW is active, especially if you have deactivated it previously for testing purpose.
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+Run your song from your remote device. Enjoy !
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