Hi everybody and especially Triode,

thanks for this awesome piece of software! This is really useful and
saved me from spending a lot of money on Sonos equipment.
I'd like to share my experiences.
My current setup is 2 Raspberries and a TPLINK MR 3020 Router with
OpenWRT (MIPS), all of them running the latest (12.12.12) git pull. This
works quite well once it is setup and rolling. I found some annoyances,
of which one seems to be unrelated to squeezelite. It is the really
narrow choice of external usb connected sound cards which can be used
for the RasPi. Right now I found a Terratec Aureon II working, and a
Behringer UCA202 not (with the common problem of a lot of
pops/crackles). This seems to stem from the problems with the USB bus on
the Raspi, probably aggravated cause they run on WiFi with a usb
connected wifi stick. Switching ports on a powerded usb hub changes the
acousitc (crackle) impressions, but I did not find a solution for the
Behringer UCA202. Right now one Raspi gives out audio over it's internal
soundcard (wokring ok without bigger disturbances), the other one over
USB to Nubert Nupro A20 speakers (the inbuilt card in those works nice
as well). All this on Archlinux ARM.
The third player is the tiny TPLink router on the Aureon II. This MIPS
device seemingly also has the same problems with the Behringer card.
Adding additional x86 laptop clients is no problem as well.

Another problem I found (been running this setup for two weeks 24/7 now)
is that every now and then a squeezelite process (almost every night,
always when they are not in use) halts. Sometimes the client vanishes
from LMS, sometimes not. If I have a "ghost" like that, no player in the
sync group starts playing until I restart the hanging process. As this
for me is no problem (quick ssh; restart process), this is a killer for
my gf ;-) and gives some bad vibes when I return from work in the
evening...
I'm very willing to help debug this problem, but might need a hand as to
where to direct my search. GDB? Trace? Anything else?

Also, I was thinking of setting up a small watchdog to auto-restart an
unresponsive squeezelite. Any ideas on how to identify a stalled
squeezelite process?

Cheers and thanks for this awesome program!


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