udpxy-debian

Debian packager for udpxy

udpxy is a UDP-to-HTTP multicast traffic relay daemon: it forwards UDP traffic from a given multicast subscription to the requesting HTTP client.

Requirements

sudo apt install build-essential devscripts fakeroot debhelper

On some system the package dh-systemd is required too.

Building the Debian package

make deb

Installing the package

sudo dpkg -i udpxy_1.0.25-1*.deb

Service setup

The package will install udpxy, and start it as a service on port 5000

Systemd is used to control the service:

systemctl status udpxy

You can edit the default parameters of the service in /etc/default/udpxy

The log file of the service is /var/log/udpxy.log, and logrotate take care of it.