sonix: relay the player's UDP beacon to stdout

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/desktop/modules/sonix/sonix-beacon.py b/desktop/modules/sonix/sonix-beacon.py
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+++ b/desktop/modules/sonix/sonix-beacon.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+# Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# Relays the Sonix player's discovery beacon to stdout, one line per
+# datagram: QML has no UDP socket. SonixLink broadcasts
+# "SONIXLINK1 <ip> <port> <name>" to UDP 7801 every 2s; anything else on
+# the port is dropped. The port is an argument only for the test.
+import socket
+import sys
+
+port = int(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 7801
+s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
+# Several listeners may share the port; each still gets the broadcast.
+s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+s.bind(("", port))
+while True:
+    data, _ = s.recvfrom(512)
+    line = data.decode("utf-8", "replace").strip()
+    if line.startswith("SONIXLINK1 "):
+        print(line, flush=True)