pavowren wrote: > you have sized up the situation correctly and thus, your questions are > exactly mine. > that in itself is some consolation. > i would have thought my situation would be quite common (at least not > uncommon) given all the purported cord cutters. > > at this point, i've concluded it's a networking issue in raspian9 and > pursue that line, > not necessarily any flaws in squeezelite or lms. > > thank you for your thoughts and feedback...
In addition to reviewing your network you should review how you mount the USB-drive: try to do it manually, as basic as possible to remove any hidden dependencies to network (whatever they may be). How do you add music to the USB-drive? Using Samba (SMB export)? That could be a source for network dependency. As for the network, it is not surprising that it gets confused when you have a key component such as the internet gateway walking around in the house and appearing randomly :-) Try to make all network connections manually and static, even for the wifi on the PI3B+: use dhcp for ip-address only but set the route manually to have it persistent. Do you have NetworkManager active on the Raspian/PI3B+? Disable that and set everything manually. If you can get an extra data SIM from your mobile operator cheap (or for free), the advice to use a 4G router is excellent. That would stop the internet gateway from disappearing and reappearing randomly :-) And your phone could use the same wifi network when at home (no need for a mobile hotspot function). Your PC & laptop would be happy with a permanent gateway. You could keep your powerline backbone only as a fallback for access to LMS. 2 Touch, 1 Picoreplayer 4.0.0 on RaspBerry 3B with 7" display LMS latest nightly on Ubuntu 18.04.1 on Intel Core2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz, 2GB All wired ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BosseJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109789 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
