Airplay does not work unless I refresh Airplay service from the cloud app

mkp132 · May 30, 2021, 2:19am

Trying to get BalenaSound working with Raspberry Pi 3B. I have found that after a reboot, I have to refresh Airplay service in the cloud app before the device shows up as an option for Airplay. Otherwise it does not show up at all or shows up intermittently and cuts out after a few seconds just like the bluetooth does on the 3B. After refreshing, Airplay functions properly, but this has to be done every time the Pi reboots or when a variable is altered.

As an aside, I noticed that the official guide lists the Raspberry Pi 3B as recommended alongside the 4B in the “Hardware Required” section. However, the troubleshooting guide shows that the 3B has issues with bluetooth connectivity such that the recommended workaround is to use a USB dongle. I would suggest this Pi model not be recommended alongside the Pi 4 in the getting started guide given this issue.

mpous · May 31, 2021, 11:32am

Hello @mkp132

To try to reproduce could you please confirm the OS version that you are using? (32bits or 64 bits)

Thanks!

mkp132 · May 31, 2021, 7:18pm

@mpous thanks for your help. I used the Raspberry Pi 3 option to flash the SD card, and the architecture is listed as armv7hf, which means 32-bit OS, correct?

tmigone · June 1, 2021, 4:29pm

Hey @mkp132 can you share your device logs? Try to capture them from reboot onwards. If you have the balenaCloud web dashboard open and reboot from there it should be fine. Then there is a download button to grab them.

mkp132 · June 2, 2021, 1:12am

balena-sound_divine-fog-01.06.21_20_08_32_(-0500).txt (107.5 KB)

This is the log without refreshing Airplay to git working. Let me know if you want one after refreshing airplay.

I notice the device shows up in Airplay options very briefly on startup, then goes away.

mkp132 · June 2, 2021, 1:14am

After refreshing Airplay and starting some tunes:

balena-sound_divine-fog-01.06.21_20_13_37_(-0500).txt (107.4 KB)

tmigone · June 14, 2021, 1:27pm

Hey, sorry for the delayed response, i’ve been a bit busy lately. This is a shairport-sync bug that I’ve reported upstream here: Retry or exit when failing to start with pulseaudio backend · Issue #1054 · mikebrady/shairport-sync · GitHub. It seems to be fixed on newer versions of the program, we have to update balenaSound to use it but haven’t had the time to look into it just yet. We’ll let you know once it’s solved.

k9gardner · June 21, 2021, 1:04am

I had reported this problem (along with others) as well, a few weeks ago, maybe around the same time as these posts. I was looking at it as a “nuisance,” but would be nice to have it fixed.

anujdeshpande · June 21, 2021, 11:58am

Hi

As Tomas mentioned - it’s fixed now in the upstream project - so we should update it soon and will have a new release.

k9gardner · June 21, 2021, 12:30pm

Ahh, great, I missed that. I guess now is a good time to ask the process for updating my device software; I assume that’s not a just simple reboot… ?

klutchell · June 21, 2021, 5:18pm

Hey @k9gardner, we haven’t picked up a new version of shairport-sync that contains the fix, so there’s no new version of balenaSound that resolves your issue yet. I opened a ticket on balenaSound for tracking so you can watch for progress here: Bump shairport-sync to v3.3.7rc1 or later · Issue #472 · balenalabs/balena-sound · GitHub

When we do have a new version of balenaSound we will update this thread accordingly. At that time you can either Deploy With Balena via the GitHub page, or clone the latest release and use the balena CLI to push a newer version of the app.