Announcement using datagram broadcast is not esoteric or obscure. It's how mDNS and a multitude of LAN games work. Likely reason that the Roku reboots is that i

Announcement using datagram broadcast is not esoteric or obscure. It's how mDNS and a multitude of LAN games work. Likely reason that the Roku reboots is that it accepts the packet and fails gracelessly to parse it instead of just discarding it and carrying on. That's what not sticking to the tried-and-true idioms is like.