I installed a second raspberry pi with squeezelite over wifi into my home network with both pi-based and squeezebox/touch elements. It seems that these pi-based clients report an all-zero mac address (or nothing) and the server registers zeros. This leads to the server conflating the two clients--first one in gets its ip address to the server, but the hostnames kind of oscillate back and forth for the single client entry in the server information, and both devices will initiate enough traffic with the server to bollix up playback on the device whose ip address got in first. The second player can't actually be activated to play something, but it's causing trouble for the first.
Why the server ends up with a zero mac address I cannot say. It might have something to do with the raspberry pi, the wifi, squeezelite on the raspberry pi, whatever. Workaround. Go into /etc/default/default and add the line: SB_EXTRA_ARGS="-m 01:02:03:04:05:06" or any other number for a mac address as long as its different for each player. Then it works. Fix: ? dunno if it's a pi issue reporting a funny mac address to squeezelite (or to some lower networking layer) and thus to the server, or squeezelite somehow not getting the number right when it's a wifi connection. Someone who knows LMS can work backward from where LMS gets that mac address--did it come from networking software or from something that squeezelite said to it. If the latter, how is squeezelite getting the mac address when it's not specified on the command line. Note that squeezelite running on a linux mint machine gets a correct mac address in the server table, and doesn't have any playback problems unless it's synchronized with one of the pi-based players. Then weird stuff happening to the pi player happens to the mint player, too. Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ david.udin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106591 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
