[Pianod] Pi Woes

[Robert-GMAIL]

Interesting - have you considered headless pianobar?

I read some articles on how to setup headless and tempted to try it

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> On Mar 16, 2014, at 5:05 PM, "Ansen Labardee" <alabardee at veinclinicpa.com> wrote:
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> 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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>   1. Pi Woes (Robert Huddleston)
>   2. Re: Pi Woes (Perette Barella)
>   3. Re: Pi Woes (Robert Huddleston)
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> 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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> 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
> 
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>> 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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> Message: 3
> 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..
> 
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>> 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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