OK, this is a peculiar one. I’ve been running a pair of 3-way active speakers for about 7 months with the active crossover filters handled by Muse’s convolution engine into an RPi4B USB connected onto a Motu Ultralite Mk5. For a while it worked fine, then things started getting a bit flaky. I left the beta/early release candidate and reinstalled the production version of Roon on my NAS with a database restore and rolled back to the production versions of remote on my Android devices.
Lately, I’ve been having issues with Qobuz and Tidal tracks “loading slowly”, interrupted playback and tracks skipping after a few seconds of playback and also the RPi showing “lost connection with the Roon server on the display”, yet continuing to play music as normal. Roon ARC has also been fine. When playing normally, I noticed the Motu’s lock indication flashing quite often. The other Motu on my man cave active setup doesn’t seem to do this.
Nothing in my network has changed. Roon core is a Synology RS3617xs Rackstation (quad core Xeon with 32 GB of RAM), everything on SSDs. Internet connection is 2 Gbps up and down and the RS has a 20 Gbit/s 802.3ad LAG over OM3 fibre back to the main switch. I tried reflashing RoPieee, reinstalling Roon with a database restore, then again with a completely clean Roon install on a blank database. No better. In desperation, I tried a different RPi4B (no touchscreen on this one) and it’s played all afternoon and evening without so mich as a hiccup. Was my original RPi just flaky?
Seems you have answered this already?
I don’t think i have ever had a Pi go bad, the exception is of course a memory card now and then.
OTOH i never found any love for the 4th gen, as they run far to warm for my taste, and didn’t add anything i needed/wanted.
Could the touch screen be the culprit? And, have you tried running a leaner OS, such as DietPi?
Thanks. Do you favour the Pi3? I only went for the Pi4B as it was the current model at the time and I’d heard that the USB implementation was improved over the Pi3 I’ll try the touchscreen on the replacement Pi later on.
I think the Pi3B+ is a great little device for my purposes, it runs cool, manages with less power and is more than fast enough to stream music, even “Huge Rez”, which is much cooler and bigger than “High Rez”!
I dislike the WLAN and Bluetooth onboard though, but disabled they seem not to impose anyhing bad. I did like the 2B better which didn’t have wireless capabilities, but it’s getting a bit old with it’s 32bit architecture etc.
Alfred is making a good point also, unless that has been covered by using the same power supply for the secondary Pi?
I’ll have a look at the 3B. Yes, I noticed the 4B runs pretty hot. I normally run them with a heatsink. The secondary Pi is working fine on the same power supply.
I’ve seen multiple times that the display just tips the power consumption over the ‘edge’.
If you want to look into this I’m more then happy to have a look at the log files.
