Another odd screen issue

anon97951896 · August 20, 2018, 5:47pm

New feedback d4639880d6232ddd

Tim

spockfish · August 20, 2018, 5:51pm

So @Nathan_Wilkes,

You reflashed from scratch right. What’s exactly the status at your end?
What kind of hardware do you have?

spockfish · August 20, 2018, 6:06pm

@anon97951896,

Are you willing to do one more experiment? Switch to the beta channel and reboot.

anon97951896 · August 20, 2018, 8:18pm

Ran out to grab some lunch and run a few errands.

Just switched to Beta channel and rebooted … feedback is 9604005e220a526a

Screen came up with Unknown for artist, album and track. Started play in Roon and everthing filled in as expected and is playing music as expected.

Tim

spockfish · August 20, 2018, 8:22pm

ok thanks. keep me posted if it keeps working like expected.

anon97951896 · August 20, 2018, 9:03pm

Should I stay on the Beta channel? I’m fine with that even it it means the occasional bump in the road when you push out an update.

Tim

spockfish · August 20, 2018, 9:11pm

yeah no problem. still running ok?

anon97951896 · August 20, 2018, 9:13pm

Yes … The Pretenders are coming through loud and clear at the moment.

Thanks again for all your help tonight!

Tim

anon97951896 · August 21, 2018, 3:46am

Shutting down for the night, everything has been working smoothly for over 7 hours.

Tim

Nathan_Wilkes · August 21, 2018, 4:05am

Harry, after flashing the recalcitrant RP3 w/display (the one that ran out of space), i reverted all of my changes to test whether the problem was in fact that device. Today, however, the same behavior manifested itself: music would play but the displays would not wake up. (The extension must have been hung.) Remotely I’d restart the extensions for my family, and the displays would wake up but not follow Roon (eg crash again). I updated to 153, with no apparent change.

So, tonight, I disabled wireless on my NUC core running ROCK as my only change. The dispiays have been behaving perfectly so far, but we will test more tomorrow during our day (PST). Feedback just now from the KitchenDisplay: eb9789f1f7e07f88

You asked about hw:

Hardware

NUC6I5SYH running latest ROCK
Synology 415+
7 RP3s, 3 dedicated to displays, the others with a variety of HATs, all running RoPieee (mostly ethernet, two music end points wireless)
NUC --> switch (some endpoints here, Synology here) --> router <-- switch <-- other end points here
No evidence of significant network instability (I track via rrd)

spockfish · August 21, 2018, 5:37am

Hi @Nathan_Wilkes,

Thanks for your extensive report!

In the mean time @anon97951896 has been running the beta version for 7 hrs without failure.

So 2 things I guess:

Can you switch to the beta channel and update?
@anon97951896 are you running ROCK also with a wireless interface?

Regards harry

anon97951896 · August 21, 2018, 2:14pm

I am running Roon ( Control, Core & Output ) on Windows 10 Home 64 Bit on an Intel NUC7I7BNH with 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD boot drive and 2 TB SATA spinning disk which holds my music. This NUC is also my Plex server which runs 24x7. Connected using Gb Ethernet to a Cisco switch and then on to my Orbi Router. The NUC is upstairs where my cable connection comes in and the Pi with touchscreen is downstairs and connects via WiFi to an Orbi Satellite. The PC I am using to write this connects to the same Orbi Satellite and it just got a download speed of over 175 Mbps using Speedtest.Net and 180 Mbps using Netflix’s Fast.Com. Bluetooth and WiFi are both active on the NUC but not connected to anything. Will probably disable them.

Started playing music again about 30 minutes ago to the Pi with touchscreen, no problems.

Let me now if you need any more information.

Tim

anon97951896 · August 21, 2018, 2:33pm

Nathan,

Thanks for writing the Beginner’s Guide, I used it when I setup my first Pi.

I hope you don’t mind a question about your configuration. You appear to have three locations ( Kitchen, Living Room & Cave ) that have two Pi devices, one with and one without display. I’m assuming the ones with the displays are not endpoints, just control unis. I referred back to your guide and I did see that mentioned as a possibility but there were no instructions on how to do it.

Is it as simple as installing the software, not selecting a HAT or USB and then specifying the Roon Control Zone on the Display tab?

Thanks … Tim

spockfish · August 21, 2018, 2:47pm

Yes it is. And in the not-so-distant feature you can select the zone directly from the screen.

Nathan_Wilkes · August 21, 2018, 2:53pm

@spockfish, if you don’t mind I want to test a bit more with the “no wireless Rock” config. If that goes well then I’ll update everything to beta tonight, if you agree?

Nathan

anon97951896 · August 21, 2018, 2:57pm

Harry,

Ropieee has really made it easy for me to enjoy my music. Now going to setup another Pi in my living room just to display what is going on 15 feet away from the couch.

Thanks … Tim

Nathan_Wilkes · August 21, 2018, 2:57pm

@anon97951896, as Harry says, yes.

I’ll take a look at the guide and (hopefully) make this more clear. Since Harry is hinting at some cool new features, I’ll need to update anyway. Feel free to make suggestions in that thread.

anon97951896 · August 21, 2018, 3:05pm

Nathan,

Thanks for responding and all the work you put into guide. Now that I’ve seen your Pi configuration I have a better appreciation of why you are the right person for the job.

Tim

spockfish · August 21, 2018, 5:34pm

OK guys, I"m going to prepare a release and push what’s in beta to stable.
Thanks for your time and feedback!

Lloyd_Borrett · August 22, 2018, 12:01am

What do you mean by ‘re-enable’? If I find it not enabled, of course I enable it. But do you mean if I find it already enabled, I should remove it and re-enable it?