Hi All, I drive my living room hifi with Plexamp Headless running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a HiFi Berry Digi2 Pro hat. I got it all set up using this guide just over a year ago and it has been running rock solid since, with any issues easily fixed by a hard reset of the rpi by unplugging the power…

it looks like you’re running a full desktop session (this is expected if you installed the normal OS image … vs the Lite OS image, which is usually all you need if you’re going to run headless) logs show a long list of audio outputs including pulseaudio (audio server that normally only runs as part…

I was trying to figure out how to get logs out of plexamp headless on the pi, any tips?

Took a while to figure out scp but got the logs! Plexamp.log (109.1 KB) Plexamp.1.log (675.6 KB) I have more but these seem to have the logs from the relevant timeframe. Something in these commands seems to cause this error - sudo cp plexamp.service /lib/systemd/system/ Hit Enter sudo systemc…

It’s unable to initialize the audio device: Sep 27, 2024 15:00:54.910 [0x968df080] ERROR - BASS: Error initializing device -1 with sample rate 48000 and flags 00000000 (3). Not sure why, some sort of permissions issue with the service??

Odd that it only happens when it tries to start on launch. If I ssh in and launch it everytime I want to use it it works perfectly. What service do you mean?

I’ve been running the Digi2 Pro with the native Hifiberry OS, using their latest Alpha release ( Release 64alpha8 · hifiberry/hifiberry-os · GitHub ). It supports plexamp out of the box, just requires some activation steps ( GitHub - hifiberry/extension_plexamp ) I’m not sure if it fits your use case, …

This seems to have fixed it!! Now reading more closely I see the guide I followed suggests installing Pi Os Lite. Thank you so much!!!

Issues with Plexamp Headless on Raspberry Pi

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elan September 27, 2024, 7:08pm 2

Unfortunately not possible to diagnose without more information, such as Plexamp logs from the device after playback, any relevant system logs, etc.

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Issues with Plexamp Headless on Raspberry Pi

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