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Comment by kstrauser

2 years ago

Sincere question: why would those kinda of apps need multicast? I don't know much/anything about them but it seems to my naive eye like they'd use plain old unicast UDP.

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philjohn  2 years ago

mDNS would be one thing - e.g. anything like Sonos, or the Shelly (IoT hardware) apps that can look for devices on the local network.

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