Morning ghulse,
ghulse wrote:
> On piCorePlayer's WiFi Dongles page, I thought I read that the Ralink
> chipset is not working, but I see now that if you scroll down the page
> to the more recent entries, it has been changed to "working." Sure,
> enough, this morning, when I tried CanaKit's dongle again, I saw the
> flashing blue light for the first time. And, lo and behold, it works. I
> don't know why it didn't work the first time around. Perhaps, I didn't
> restart the Rasberry Pi, although I thought I did.
Easy to do.
ghulse wrote:
> I've never had such dropouts with my Squeezebox v.3. And it's not the
> source material. Yesterday, after one of the Moody Blues songs stopped
> playing, I restarted the Rasberry Pi, and played the same song and it
> played just fine. In my experience, once the audio drops out, it doesn't
> come back until I start fiddling with the LMS controls, say stop and
> start the music again.
>
> But I'll try the Ralink WiFi dongle and see if I'm getting the same kind
> of dropouts. If so, I may end up just buying an Airport Express and
> plugging the Rasberrty Pi via ethernet cable.
>
> This is probably way more information than you're interested. But I'm
> using an Airport Base Station set to WPA/WPA2 instead of just WPA2 and,
> as a result, some of my devices show my WiFi appearing twice. This is
> the case on PiCore's WiFi Settings page. My WiFi appears twice with one
> very strong signal (88/100) and the other very weak. Presumably, PiCore
> is using the stronger link, since that one appears at the very top of
> the list.
>
> If I continue to have audio dropouts, I'll set the Base Station to WPA2
> only and see if that helps.
Interesting. In my setup, wifi interference usually just causes hiccups
in the music stream, rarely stopping the music altogether. So you might
be on the right track regarding WPA/WPA2. I have had the same wireless
router for a long time so my experience may differ from normal.
If you are comfortable with Linux this will show the connections to your
LMS.
Code:
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$netstat -nt
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The wifi AP listing is just sorted by quality, so in theory the best one
should be at the top. My neighbour's wifi strength is often greater than
mine. It doesn't reflect which one piCorePlayer is using. You can even
get that AP listing without a network connection. This command will give
you all the AP information.
Code:
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$iwlist scanning
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If decide to do this, note that this listing is not static, the number
of access points, strength and quality will change.
regards
Greg
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