RuneAudio crashes while using onboard wifi

[wertkost]

Hi Guys,

i got a HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro on a raspberry 3B.
I tried rune audio RuneAudio_rpi2_rp3_0.4-beta_20170229 as well as RuneAudio_rpi2_rp3_0.4-beta_20160321 and always had the same problem.
The onboard wifi is recognised and i am able to connect. Seconds after starting the playback the connection crashes and I am not able to connect again.
Using a LAN-cable everything works fine, but I'd rather use the wifi, can you guys help me?

Thanks a lot!

PS: I tried volumio and it didn't even showed my wifi-interface.

[wertkost]

as an add-on information:

I just started the pi with lan-cable and after booting and connecting to wifi, i restarted it. Wifi is unable to connect afterwards... thats just happening to with RuneAudio_rpi2_rp3_0.4-beta_20170229. In order to fix it, i have to remove the saved wifi data and reconnect.

[janui]

[wertkost]

Hi Janui,

thanks for your post.

While installing m2p, I changed the wifi-channel to 10. Afterwards m2p worked great with the on-board wifi except spotify, thats why i am back here. I like the RuneAudio-Software way better. Tried again the RuneAudio_rpi2_rp3_0.4-beta_20160321-Version, disabled bluetooth like you suggested and it seems to work.... ! That would be so awesome!

Also wrote to hifiberry support. They said, it is maybe a rare problem with the DAC + pro and i should try the wifi without the dac. Not yet tried it (right now no need to...), maybe tomorrow...

[janui]

Hi wertkost,

Good that things are a little beter. There seems to be some issues at the moment with Spotify, see threads: spotify-tried-everything-playlist-undefined-undefined-t4442.html#p20060 and spotify-playlists-not-visible-t4310.html#p19090. If Spotify is your only problem then tagging onto these theads would be best.

Note: Some users are also reporting no problems with Sporify. I am using the standard image (RuneAudio_rpi2_rp3_0.4-beta_20160321_2GB.img.gz) on my Pi3B, my Spotify is still working fine. But I am also getting extra lines like "undefined (undefined)". What I did notice is that it takes ages to load the Spotify playlists.

How does the DAC sound?

Janui

[wertkost]

Hey,

still working like a charm! Sound is great, love runeaudio and the pi!

Having the same issues with undefined playlists in spotify, but it seems more like that if you are just following a playlists it appears as undefined. It is not the case if you create it yourself... Maybe some kind of Problem with the link to a playlist and not having the real playlist yourself.

[wertkost]

update:

telling Hifiberry (D. Matuschek) what solved the Problem, he said, it is a hardware-problem and he is going to replace the DAC + Pro with another. Great support!

Meanwhile, i am having the same issues with spotify concerning the long time till a playlist appears in library...

[R101]

I am not sure if this is relevant, but I tried a Digi + Pro on the Pi3 and found that it severely reduced the wifi performance when mounted as intended. It worked OK if the audio board was alongside the Pi and connected via a short ribbon cable. I don't know whether the problem was caused by RF radiation from the audio board, or whether putting what is effectively a ground plane above the Pi3 antenna was a bad idea.

[Stephane]

Hi,
There is a hack to solder a UFL connector on the PI3 and put an external antenna.
I did it as the connection was too unstable with the Digi+ board and now all is perfect.
The tutorial is easily available on the net.