Are there methods to start and stop ssdp after creating

[imnotbob]

My service stops advertising once it is connected via
It was created via:
ssdpServer = ssdp(...)
ssdpeServer.advertise(...)

ssdpServer.stop()

Is there a method to continue/restart advertising? would it be ssdpServer.start(), or some other cleanup / recreation?

[achingbrain]

Hmm, that's strange - it shouldn't stop advertising unless you explicitly tell it to. Do you see any stack traces?

[imnotbob]

Sorry I was unclear. The stop is what I coded, ie. it is a single use service at a time; when I connect I call stop

My question is if I get other errors, is there a clean way (like ssdpServer.start() ?) to restart that service? Currently I exit and let the service be restarted, but was hoping to lower the overhead of restarting the advertisement.

thx

[achingbrain]

TLDR: I would just call bus.advertise again.

There's not a lot of overhead in starting an advertisement - it's just a timer that periodically sends some UDP packets to the broadcast address. It will listen on a socket to serve the device description document but you can get it not to do that by passing a location argument to bus.advertise.

https://github.com/achingbrain/ssdp#advertise-a-service
https://github.com/achingbrain/ssdp#full-api-and-options