Decoding information from a Link cable

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New to the Denon ecosystem, and was excited to receive my prime go a couple weeks ago. Was planning on grabbing track metadata and other things like BPM on the fly from the link cable for streaming purposes (now playing, autoplay music videos). I set everything up with Link out from the prime go to the ethernet in on my desktop and tried to figure out what I was looking at with wireshark. All I’m seeing is “prime go discoverer howdy” over and over again. What steps can I take to get track data? Do I need to confirm anything to the prime go so it will send stuff? Any help is appreciated.

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What you’re seeing is the UDP broadcast packet for stagelinq device discovery.

The host is supposed to send out a broadcast packet on port 51337 (iirc.) with DISCOVERER_HOWDY_ that contains among other things a TCP port that the host should be listening on. The prime device will then connect to this port to communicate further.

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