balenaSound blueooth audio on Raspberry Pi 3: Sound skipping, dropping

Hi,

Just wanted to chime in since I’ve been working on this issue for a few hours now. I’m on an RPi3 and started on balenaOS v2.47.0+rev1 and ran into the bluetooth issues mentioned above. Some log extracts:

  • /usr/bin/bluealsa: SBC decoding error: No such file or directory
  • /usr/bin/bluealsa: Missing RTP packet: 1780 != 1778

I tried messing with config variables (turning bluetooth or wifi off at boot etc.) to no avail, and eventually started downgrading balenaOS to see if that was the issue, following a tip from this issue https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound/issues/47. v2.38.0+rev1 was the version where bluetooth started working properly for me, so it would seem that bluetooth got broken in following versions for the RPi3, perhaps when support for RPi4 was added?

Hope this is helpful to some of you and that this might get fixed in an update since v2.38.0 is technically “outdated” and might be less secure.

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