[avahi] Localization

[Robert Nagtegaal]

Dear developers,

For my job I’m building a ‘bonjour gateway’. Basically this means a network with apple-tv’s etc… and separate networks with clients. These clients are spread throughout a large building. The number of devices (apple-tv’s) are more then 100. The BJ-gw (Avahi) serves the clients with known devices.

Now what I’d like to achieve is the following:

Say I am in a class-room and a client (laptop, ipad/phone) connects via an access point (AP). From 100+ apple-tv’s there is only one serving this room. Is it possible to show the client only this one apple-tv based on the MAC-address from the AP it is connected to? 

I know that the Cisco-WLC can handle this but I was wondering if Avahi has this mechanism (see where the client request originates from, and serve based on this information a subset of it’s known devices) already build-in or is there a known -software- solution?

Kind regards,

Robert Nagtegaal.