I have been running the Balena Sound project on my Raspberry pi 3 for a little bit now but have been noticing that it sometimes will pause or skip when playing music from my iPhone. Looking at the logs I notice that there are still some errors coming through 25.09.19 11:24:40 (-0700) bluetooth-aud…

Hey, thanks for reaching out. The logs seem to point at the RTP packets getting dropped, probably due to signal. There are some similar issues I came across after some Googling so maybe you could try either an external Bluetooth adapter, or disabling WiFi (if it’s not being used). If you do try ei…

@richbayliss I have read some of that as well. So I have turned the wifi off onboard the pi and the problems still persists. I ordered a bluetooth dongle to see if that works, as it seems to have started when I used the the DAC, which covers the pi. Will report back with any updates

Hey @had42 , after checking the post suggested by @anon64956113 ( BalenaSound on PI0 W with phat dac - Garbled sound glitches off intermittently ), the issue is due to the new iOS13 update. Do you have an older iPhone or another phone to test it? Cheers

@dansku Well thats the odd part. When I first did the project I was already on iOS 13 beta, and I had no issues with the sound (other than the actual onboard audio not being the best). I only started seeing the dropping sound issue after adding the DAC. I was able to check with an iPad 2 running iO…

Hi @Had42 I don’t know if this is relevant for yours but another setting I had to change for the pHat Dac was: Define DT parameters [RESIN_HOST_CONFIG_dtparam] and turn audio to off (“i2c_arm=on”,“spi=on”,“audio=off”) Hope this helps. @anon64956113 's solution was totally spot on for me. ADDIT…

@dansku So an update on my setup. I added a bluetooth dongle to my raspberry pi 3, turned off onboard bluetooth, as well as wifi. reset all variables and got the dongle to show up. From there I did an initial 10 min test of the audio and was pleased that I no longer get the error SBC decoding err…

Hi @Had42 , nice to hear that the bluetooth dongle resolved the error and the sound is better. That’s progress : ) Missing RTP packet implies a weak bluetooth signal. Is the bluetooth source (iPhone) close to the RPi3? Do you see the same error logs with other bluetooth sources? Next, are there oth…

@gelbal so with the Bluetooth dongle I added I was able to test the playback for a good solid hour, and when I was in the room I experienced no dropped packets or error. Leaving the room would cause the errors again, so a as for me I’d say my issue has been solved

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anon64956113 September 28, 2019, 2:21pm 5

Please have a look at BalenaSound on PI0 W with phat dac - Garbled sound glitches off intermittently, maybe these threads should be merged?

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