[Pianod] Pi Woes

[Robert Huddleston]

Believe it or not we are directly ethernet in.. Not wifi.. Ping results 
appear good and we are plugged directly into  cable modem - no router in 
between..


> Perette Barella <mailto:perette at barella.org>
> March 16, 2014 at 2:41 PM
> 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
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> Robert Huddleston <mailto:rhuddleston at gmail.com>
> March 16, 2014 at 1:56 PM
> 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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