Is BalenaSound reliable?

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Hello everyone.

I’ve been using BalenaSound for just over a year now.

This is my setup

  • 3 RPi4Bs
  • 2 with 4GB (One of these is WLAN) and 1 with 8GB of RAM
  • 2 are connected via RJ45 and 1 is connected via WLAN (5GHz, Client Mode)
  • all 3 have DACs

I have found that:

  • Snyc delay (to all 3 devices) is between 1-28 seconds.
  • Restarting all 3 devices fixes sync delay for unknown amount of time (until delay becomes ~20 seconds again)
  • If I connect to the WLAN device (client mode), playback starts immediately (no delay).
  • WLAN client will not consistently playback tracks sometimes (i.e. track pauses during playback, track doesn’t finish and skips to next song, device disconnects, etc.)
  • LAN clients often do not connect with each other (1 LAN and WLAN will sucessfully plaback, 1 LAN device no response - and vice versa)
  • I have noticed one of the RJ45 devices restarts more frequently than the others. Haven’t figured out why.

Does anyone else have information to share?

I really want to like BalenaSound but it (or my setup) just isn’t reliable enough to use properly.

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