[Pianod] Pi Woes

[Perette Barella]

Both “Stalled” and lack of stations suggest network loss issues.  The stalls may happen more at song transition when there’s no buffering built up yet.  I’m assuming you’re on wifi; trying pinging from the pi to your router and see what your packet loss looks like (use ping -c100 if needed).  If that seems reliable then trying pinging something else in the world and how packet loss looks there, and traceroute to figure out where along the way it’s happening.

Setting up a network time lapse camera thing for Airigami recently, we found the Pi does better with the wifi transceivers that have the antenna on them and that the router we were using made a heck of a difference.  We could barely get signal on the closest camera with line of sight with a cheapo Netgear WGR614, but with an Airport (Apple’s router)  we got signal 3 considerably further away and around corners.  I’ve also seen much better network reliability since I upgraded to a higher-end Netgear here at home.  It seems in this case that a few bucks more does get you something.

Perette



On 2014年03月16日, at 13:56, Robert Huddleston <rhuddleston at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been experiencing issues with Pianod and thinking that it's only a Raspberry Pi issue...
> 
> The majority of issues are "Stalled" with status code 106 and usually with 1 or 2 seconds left in a song... Could this be a protocol issue with libpiano and/or Pandora? As all my stalls appear to be before changing to another song.
> 
> The other I see is around reboots or loss of network connectivity.. Sometimes I will get no stations starting on boot.. From what I've read this could be a result of delayed network connection... Anyone have any ideas on this?
> 
> I would rather run pianod due to the web gateway - but is this an implementation issue with libpiano.. Would pianobar experience the same issue?
> 
> Or is this a Pi issue?
> 
> Cheers
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