[Pianod] Pi Woes

[Ansen Labardee]

I've had problems with this as well, I have 9 Pi's streaming Pandora 24/7
across my companies, all pi's are hard wired.
I haven't had time to troubleshoot the issue so instead I setup my nagios
server to constantly monitor each pi via telnet, If nagios doesn't see
"playing" in the response nagios restarts the pianod service only. This
seems to resolve the issue. 

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:56:57 -0400
From: Robert Huddleston <rhuddleston at gmail.com>
To: pianod at lists.deviousfish.com
Subject: [Pianod] Pi Woes
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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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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:41:11 -0400
From: Perette Barella <perette at barella.org>
To: pianod <pianod at lists.deviousfish.com>
Subject: Re: [Pianod] Pi Woes
Message-ID: <9E5C5DB1-7D01-4500-9F79-7024DF05B96D at barella.org>
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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?03?16?, 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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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:42:48 -0400
From: Robert Huddleston <rhuddleston at gmail.com>
To: pianod <pianod at lists.deviousfish.com>
Subject: Re: [Pianod] Pi Woes
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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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