No sound to amplifier through Airplay with PI 2

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Hi, I installed BalenaSound into a Raspberry PI 2 (with a WiFi dongle) successfully.
From the logs it seems that the music streaming is correcting addressed to the PI, but no sound comes from the amplifier.
This is the log:

17.04.20 17:40:53 (+0200) airplay Device is discoverable as “balenaSound Airplay 1069”
17.04.20 17:41:32 (+0200) airplay Error 6 opening the pipe named “/var/cache/snapcast/snapfifo”: “No such device or address”.
17.04.20 17:41:53 (+0200) snapcast-client 2020-04-17 15-41-53 [Info] (Alsa) frames: 1324
17.04.20 17:41:54 (+0200) snapcast-server 2020-04-17 15-41-54 [Info] (onStateChanged) onStateChanged (default): 2
17.04.20 17:41:54 (+0200) snapcast-client 2020-04-17 15-41-54 [Info] (Stream) Chunk: 0 0 0 0 1 59 0
17.04.20 17:41:55 (+0200) snapcast-client 2020-04-17 15-41-55 [Info] (Stream) Chunk: 0 0 0 0 7 89 0
17.04.20 17:41:56 (+0200) snapcast-client 2020-04-17 15-41-56 [Info] (Stream) Chunk: 0 0 0 0 33 59 0
17.04.20 17:41:57 (+0200) snapcast-client 2020-04-17 15-41-57 [Info] (Stream) Chunk: 0 0 0 0 57 89 0
17.04.20 17:41:57 (+0200) snapcast-server 2020-04-17 15-41-57 [Info] (onStateChanged) onStateChanged (default): 1
17.04.20 17:41:58 (+0200) snapcast-client 2020-04-17 15-41-58 [Info] (Stream) Chunk: 0 0 0 0 82 59 0
17.04.20 17:41:59 (+0200) snapcast-client 2020-04-17 15-41-59 [Info] (Stream) Chunk: 0 0 0 0 107 59 0
17.04.20 17:41:59 (+0200) snapcast-client 2020-04-17 15-41-59 [Info] (getPlayerChunk) Exception

Music is played via airplay from a MacBook Pro. I see the device from MAc.
I use the same cable for other music devices and it works fine. Volume is up. The song isn’t paused but I can’t hear it.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks,

Luca

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Hi @lschibuola,

balenaSound isn’t supported on the RPi 2, only Raspberry Pi 3A+/3B/3B+/4B/Zero W. Are you able to try it on a newer RPi?

John

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HI @jtonello,
Yes maybe I will buy a new board.
Thank you!

Luca

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Hi.

I’ve the same issue on a RPi3b+

22.04.20 23:07:05 (+0200) airplay Device is discoverable as “balenaSound Airplay 3f62”
22.04.20 23:07:35 (+0200) airplay Error 6 opening the pipe named “/var/cache/snapcast/snapfifo”: “No such device or address”.

AirPlay device is enable, and error appear when I choose it on my phone.

Any idea ?

Thk’s.

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Hi @manew12. Welcome to the balena forums.

Are all the balenaSound services running as expected? Specifically the snapcast-server service, but interested in any failures.

Thanks,
James.

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Hi. Thank’s for your answer.

I don’t understand what’s happen… today when I start my RPi, all services are ok, I connect my phone with AirPlay, and no error, everything working well…

I’m sure yesterday, all services were already ok…

I’m going to watch services, if the problem will go back…

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Hi there,
glad to hear that everything works fine. Thanks for checking, let us know if the problem still occurs