SOUND_DISABLE_SPOTIFY disables Spotify, then Spotify immediately restarts

Project help balenaSound
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The same is happening on my two devices for all the “SOUND_DISABLE_PLUGIN” options, not just Spotify.

I set Device environment variable like this:

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Logs follow:

07.01.21 10:47:09 (-0700) airplay Shairport-sync started. Device is discoverable as balenaSound AirPlay 1ce5
07.01.21 10:47:10 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:10 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:14 (-0700) Service exited ‘multiroom-client sha256:8d3fd10d545a5c6122ece25d053208b9af4623d6370fdbbedb57b23a33475c33’
07.01.21 10:47:18 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:47:20 (-0700) Service exited ‘multiroom-server sha256:2c3b7b6caa1fd73b793ed9b29548ae8366f69520ea329fa3faab519ff0e22531’
07.01.21 10:47:22 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:22 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:27 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:47:31 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:31 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:34 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:47:39 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:39 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:44 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:47:48 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:48 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:47:53 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:47:58 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:48:06 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:48:10 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:48:10 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:48:24 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:48:29 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:48:29 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:48:57 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:49:02 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:49:02 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:49:54 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:50:00 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:50:00 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:51:02 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
07.01.21 10:51:07 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
07.01.21 10:51:07 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’

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Hi there,

Can you specify what version of balena-sound you have deployed, and the version of your OS & supervisor?

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Screenshot of Dashboard follows. Hopefully it has all the version info you need? If not, LMK. Thx!

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Hi Paul,

Looks like you’re running the latest version of the balena OS and supervisor. Can you confirm you deployed v3.4.5 (the most current release available from https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound?

Thanks,
John

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Hi John,

I might need some technical hand-holding regarding how to query/display that data point.

I can tell you I “should be” very current, as I clicked on the “Deploy With Balena” button on 1/4/21 and downloaded this iso:
balena-cloud-balena-sound-raspberrypi4-64-2.65.0+rev1-v12.2.11.img.zip
…burned to SD Card, etc.

I don’t mind getting a bit more technical to troubleshoot if needed. Willing to take the next step and install CLI if needed.

Thanks!

Paul

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Hi Paul,

Ah, I think you need to add device variables for your Spotify credentials (SOUND_SPOTIFY_USERNAME and SOUND_SPOTIFY_PASSWORD. More information is available in the Customization section of the documentation: https://sound.balenalabs.io/docs/customization/#plugins

Let us know how you make out.

John

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Hmm. I don’t have a Spotify account.

I’m trying to disable Spotify; not trying to use Spotify.

I want to use Bluetooth, but am having some sound issues (static) that I’m trying to isolate (troubleshoot). I wanted to disable Spotify, disable Airplay, etc, so that those extra processes aren’t competing with bluetooth cpu use.

Paul

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Sounds like a good plan. There are also troubleshooting tips (for stuttery audio, etc.) that you might want to check out. The Spotify feature does require a paid account.

John

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I upgraded to Supervisor 12.3.0 and I am still having this issue with SOUND_DISABLE_SPOTIFY:

23.01.21 10:04:46 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
23.01.21 10:04:48 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
23.01.21 10:04:52 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
23.01.21 10:05:00 (-0700) spotify Spotify is disabled, exiting…
23.01.21 10:05:02 (-0700) Restarting service ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
23.01.21 10:05:07 (-0700) Service exited ‘spotify sha256:c16670d485fead85dac04f07ae8b942824e28e20ddd1f3fcd189c0cc7e8da9c7’
…repeats endlessly…

Spotify keeps restarting when I set SOUND_DISABLE_SPOTIFY.

I’m running Pi Zero W showing high CPU usage.

I’m want to reduce CPU load by not running services I’m not using.

Any ideas?

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Hi

A simple way to do this would be to edit your docker-compose file i.e. this one - https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound/blob/master/docker-compose.yml

You can remove the lines for spotify service from this, and then push an update to your device using balena push