Dropouts (still) Pi2

[PanicFan]

I thought i had this fixed....i am wrong.

If i play Mp3s, redbook or better flacs over wifi i get intermittent dropouts.

My original set up:
RPi2
Panda Wireless PAU06 300Mbps N USB Adapter
Plugable USB 2.0 7-Port High Speed Hub with 15W Power Adapter
DAC IQaudIO Pi-Dac+

The WiFi adapter was plugged into the Pi and the Pi was plugged into the powered hub for power. This set up streams web radio just fine. No drop outs at all. If i plug a WD My Passport Ultra 1 TB Portable External USB 3.0 Hard Drive into the powered hub i lose power to the WiFi.

My guess was that the power was insufficient.

I unplugged the hub and powered the Pi2 with the WiFi adapter in the Pi's USB port with a 5.1 volt 2 Amp power supply. Its better, less drop outs but i still get drop outs.

I thought i would try sending the data from the WD HDD. With the Pi2 having its own power source, and the WiFi adapter still plugged into the Pi, I connected the HDD to a powered hub and ran a usb cable to the Pi2. The light was on for the HDD, i could control the Pi via WiFi, but the HDD would never mount. I do have the auto mount feature enabled.Does this take a long time to do?

As a last step, i copied an album to a usb thumb drive as a 24/44.1 Flac. It plays with no drop outs.

Not sure where to go from here.

I would like to send files via WiFi to the Pi2. I play mostly flacs so little thumb drives would fill up very quickly.

Do i just need to wait a few hours for Rune Audio to tell me an HDD is mounted?
Is the powered hub still not getting enough juice to the HDD?
Is the Pi2 still underpowered with the I2s, a WiFi adapter, and a 5.1volt 2A power supply?

Banging my head against the wall at this point.

I am running release version: 0.4 (build: beta-20141216) and the Debug info is linked below if it helps

http://pastebin.com/5QRX1tAi

thanks for any suggestions (including placing a pillow between my had and the wall)

[hondagx35]

Hi PanicFan,

please try the latest image.
http://www.runeaudio.com/download/#raspberry-pi-2

Frank

[PanicFan]

[PanicFan]

I think i am about to give up

I am running release version: 0.4 (build: beta-20141216)

The suggestion above in this thread is to update to the latest build but that build seems to be an older build.?.?

I upgraded to a 2.4 Amp power supply to the Pi2. Fewer drop outs via wifi - but they still occur. They seem to occur less frequently with MP3s than with flac files and 24 bit files are an absolute no go for me via wifi. Internet radio still works fine w/ no dropouts.

24/96 is no problem whatsoever via a usb thumbdrive.

I no longer know if its a power issue, bad wifi antenna, the Pi2, a setting(s) in rune, i just don't know...and I am getting tired of chasing it.

I may just bite the bullet and go with a bluesound node -2 for $499 US. i would rather save for a better amp, but if i have no source, the amp is useless.

Anywho. Thanks for the efforts. Rune has so much potential. I hope it continues and if i do give up on the Pi2/rune now i may come back to it for a bedroom system later when i am less frustrated.

Cheers!

Cheers All

[PanicFan]

I may have fixed it!

The combo of switching to a 2.4 amp power supply and doing some wifi investigations have helped.

2 apps for an android: Wi-Fi sweet-spot and WiFi analyzer helped ALOT. They indicated that I along with 4 neighbors were all on wifi channel 1. Manual going into the routers settings and setting it to channel 7 rather than let it pick *seems* to have done the trick. 14/44 flacs have been playing all morning with no dropouts, and a hi-rez download @ 24/48 had only 2 minor dropouts over the first half of the album.

Smiling again here!