How many simultanious udp clients can snapcastC suppport ?

[gorive]

Cool project - got a question Is it possible to stream data to ex 500 udp clients via unicast ?

[christf]

The amount of clients is limited by the size of uint16_t in the code base. This easily accomodates 500 clients.
That being said I never tried to work with client sets that large.

If you are willing to give it a try I am happy to work with you to make it work in case you are hitting a road block. Please do let me know how your experiment goes....

[kdknigga]

Just an idea, multicast support would be pretty ideal for something like this. Why send 500 UDP packets when you can send 1 and let your network gear do the heavy lifting?

[christf]

multicast rate over wifi is strictly limited. So much that I'd rather not rely on it working..

[christf]

Am Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 08:36:04AM -0700 schrieb Kris Knigga:

Just an idea, multicast support would be pretty ideal for something like this. Why send 500 UDP packets when you can send 1 and let your network gear do the heavy lifting?

... I guess this could be turned on with a cli switch....

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[christf]

Cool project - got a question Is it possible to stream data to ex 500 udp clients via unicast ?

what became of the experiment?