Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-04 Thread paul-
Good news, keep an eye on it, let me know if things change. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://picoreplayer.org/index.html#donate) if you like the piCorePlayer

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-04 Thread gian
Thanks, Paul, I rebuilt the SD from scratch, with v8.2. Now the situation looks better. +---+ |Filename: Screenshot from 2022-12-04 12-05-36.jpg | |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-03 Thread paul-
Sounds like you have a many times upgraded system that somehow broke, or too much tweaking in the wrong spots Check your mirror selection bottom right of most of the pages piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-03 Thread gian
thanks Paul, but... [ INFO ] Updating pCP Bluetooth Extensions... Invalid mirror selection for pcp-update [ ERROR ] Try again later Madamina, il catalogo è questo... town: Musical Fidelity Dr.Thomas, Preamp II, Infinity 7K, Squeezebox Classic (2), 2 Squeezelite bt on Raspi, Raspberry Pi 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-03 Thread paul-
I missed this on he first scan of the log, but your not using the latest version. Can you update the Bluetooth extensions. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://picoreplayer.org/index.html#donate) if you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-03 Thread gian
Voila... +---+ |Filename: Screenshot from 2022-12-03 09-02-37.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=39292| +---+

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-02 Thread paul-
The daemon is mostly dbus callbacks, so the only way for it to generate CPU usage is for bluetooth to generate events.. and the events are logged. There is nothing abnormal in your log. Please take a screenshot with htop running showing what each process is using. piCorePlayer a small

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-02 Thread gian
here it is... +---+ |Filename: pcp_bt.log | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=39289|

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-02 Thread bpa
gian wrote: > ooops! no! I was looking at the wrong Raspi... > Too many of these darn elves running around! > > So, CPU n.3 is running at 100%: > - Command python3 > - /usr/local/bin/pcp-btspeaker-daemon.py debug pcp-btspeaker-daemon.py uses threads so I'm guessing one thread is having a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-02 Thread gian
ooops! no! I was looking at the wrong Raspi... Too many of these darn elves running around! So, CPU n.3 is running at 100%: - Command python3 - /usr/local/bin/pcp-btspeaker-daemon.py debug Madamina, il catalogo è questo... town: Musical Fidelity Dr.Thomas, Preamp II, Infinity 7K, Squeezebox

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-02 Thread gian
the problem is (or should I say luckily?) that at the moment the two speakers have been on two hrs, and there is no show of significant CPU load... Madamina, il catalogo è questo... town: Musical Fidelity Dr.Thomas, Preamp II, Infinity 7K, Squeezebox Classic (2), 2 Squeezelite bt on Raspi,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-12-01 Thread bpa
gian wrote: > Sorry, maybe I had not understood the question. > No, LMS is running on another host, this a player dedicated to the two > BT speakers. > I wasn't able to run reliably all the functions I needed in a single > player: AP, DAC, two BT speakers, one USB relais to switch on the main >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-30 Thread gian
Sorry, maybe I had not understood the question. No, LMS is running on another host, this a player dedicated to the two BT speakers. I wasn't able to run reliably all the functions I needed in a single player: AP, DAC, two BT speakers, one USB relais to switch on the main HIFI system: so I split

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-30 Thread bpa
gian wrote: > Yes, the source is Logitech Media Server Version: 8.3.0 - 1667251155 @ > Fri 04 Nov 2022 09:14:25 AM CET > > The two bt speakers wake me up with BBC Radio3 every morning, and are > synchronized so I can follow "Bach before 7" from bed to shower. LMS is up to date so no chance of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-30 Thread gian
I loaded htop and tuned the BBC, the speakers have been singing for 1h and no sign of overload... everything (exception htop) <1%... Madamina, il catalogo è questo... town: Musical Fidelity Dr.Thomas, Preamp II, Infinity 7K, Squeezebox Classic (2), 2 Squeezelite bt on Raspi, Raspberry Pi 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-30 Thread paul-
8m is pushing the range of bluetooth. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://picoreplayer.org/index.html#donate) if you like the piCorePlayer

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-30 Thread gian
bpa wrote: > I still think you should find out what process is taking 100% > As Paul has pointed out - except for LMS - most processes are > multithreaded and so should not show this issue. > The fact that 75% is in kernel is very odd. > I don't know pcp and its BT stuff - is LMS still a source

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-30 Thread bpa
gian wrote: > In the same room I have another Raspi (Raspbian Buster), connected to my > main stereo system with a Hifi Berry DAC, connected with eth0, works > also as bridged AP. > I have just fixed a problem where the DAC would kill the wifi, moving > the channel from 1 to 3. > I found the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-30 Thread gian
In the same room I have another Raspi (Raspbian Buster), connected to my main stereo system with a Hifi Berry DAC, connected with eth0, works also as bridged AP. I have just fixed a problem where the DAC would kill the wifi, moving the channel from 1 to 3. I found the solution here:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-30 Thread gian
Paul Webster wrote: > Have you tried the onboard BT just in case it (surprisingly) works > better? Probably I had tried, but if I moved to an USB dongle must have been for insufficient range. The speakers are distant about 8m from the Raspi, one is in a bathroom. Madamina, il catalogo è

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-29 Thread paul-
Just tested tonight using a RPI3B using the rpi built in BT. Wired network. I have two different earbuds in right now sync'd (Surprised its not that far out of sync) only a millisecond or so between the two ears, which is fully expected in different capabilities of the two devices. No

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-29 Thread paul-
I would bet this is just a buffering issue. Or standard sync problems between different devices. I'll see if I can find the time to test a couple of devices. When I originally set it up, I never tried sync. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-29 Thread bpa
gian wrote: > > Mem: 194592K used, 801504K free, 14504K shrd, 5240K buff, 68072K cached > CPU0: 5.1% usr 1.0% sys 0.0% nic 93.7% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.0% > sirq > CPU1: 0.0% usr 0.2% sys 0.0% nic 99.7% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.0% > sirq > CPU2: 24.3% usr 75.6% sys 0.0% nic 0.0%

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-29 Thread Paul Webster
Have you tried the onboard BT just in case it (surprisingly) works better? Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, abc australia and cbc/radio-canada and, via the extra \"radio now playing\"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-28 Thread gian
no, on board wifi and bt are disabled. BT is on USB Madamina, il catalogo è questo... town: Musical Fidelity Dr.Thomas, Preamp II, Infinity 7K, Squeezebox Classic (2), 2 Squeezelite bt on Raspi, Raspberry Pi 2 with HiFiBerry, Ubuntu 18.4 LTS server country: Musical Fidelity A-5, Infinity

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-28 Thread paul-
Are you trying to run wifi network too? piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://picoreplayer.org/index.html#donate) if you like the piCorePlayer

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-28 Thread gian
Thanks, bpa: Mem: 194592K used, 801504K free, 14504K shrd, 5240K buff, 68072K cached CPU0: 5.1% usr 1.0% sys 0.0% nic 93.7% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.0% sirq CPU1: 0.0% usr 0.2% sys 0.0% nic 99.7% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.0% sirq CPU2: 24.3% usr 75.6% sys 0.0% nic 0.0% idle 0.0% io

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-28 Thread bpa
gian wrote: > I think that the stuttering comes from trying to keep the players in > sync. > > Issuing top, I see CPU running at 24% with python3 > /usr/local/bin/pcp-btspeaker-daemon.py debug. > > Could it be a CPU problem? Pi3 & 4 have 4 cores. If one core is running at 100% then CPU

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-11-28 Thread gian
I think that the stuttering comes from trying to keep the players in sync. Issuing top, I see CPU running at 24% with python3 /usr/local/bin/pcp-btspeaker-daemon.py debug. Could it be a CPU problem? Madamina, il catalogo è questo... town: Musical Fidelity Dr.Thomas, Preamp II, Infinity 7K,

[SlimDevices: Plugins] piCorePlayer, bt stutters when players synchronized

2022-10-24 Thread gian
Hello All, I have a single piCorePlayer that drives two BT speakers. It worked fairly well, but now they stutter if synchronized. piCorePlayer v6.1.0 | linux 4.19.122-rt52-pcpAudioCore_v7 | piCore v10.3pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.9-1386-pCP Madamina, il catalogo è questo... town: Musical Fidelity