Plexamp iOS app disconnecting from headless/pi player

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I’ve been using Plexamp for some time now, installed as a headless player on my raspberry pi 5. I control it through the iOS app, but get frustrated that the connection to my headless player constantly drops in the app and I have to reconnect virtually every time I want to either change tracks or adjust the volume, etc. Is there a trick to keep the iOS app connected to a headless player, and not default to the iOS player? (If I use the web player from the pi there aren’t connection issues, but I prefer the interface of the app…it is a nice app after all…)

Thanks…

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Please provide Plexamp logs. Without these it’s close to impossible to debug anything.

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To answer your question, there’s no trick. It should stay connected even across killing the app. Most likely culprit is networking.

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I’m not sure what is the best way to share these. Please advise. I can resend.

Thank you!

Plexamp-Logs-2024-11-12-1.zip (430.2 KB)

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These logs are from my phone, the previous are from my iPad. I can’t seem to find logs for my headless player.

Plexamp-Logs-2024-11-12-1(iphone).zip (81.5 KB)

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Logs for headless player are located at: ~/.cache/Plexamp/log/Plexamp.log".

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Here are the headless logs. Thanks for your time and help!

Plexamp_logs_headless.zip (1.1 MB)

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OK, I see the issue:

/Users/elan/Downloads/Plexamp-Logs-2024-11-12-1(iphone)/Plexamp.1.log:Nov 11, 2024 20:45:19.194 [Javascript] INFO - Audio Route: Network state changed to 1 so we're switching to local.
/Users/elan/Downloads/Plexamp-Logs-2024-11-12-1(iphone)/Plexamp.5.log:Nov 10, 2024 11:17:46.962 [Javascript] INFO - Audio Route: Network state changed to 1 so we're switching to local.
/Users/elan/Downloads/Plexamp-Logs-2024-11-12-1(iphone)/Plexamp.5.log:Nov 10, 2024 11:18:05.466 [Javascript] INFO - Audio Route: Network state changed to 1 so we're switching to local.
/Users/elan/Downloads/Plexamp-Logs-2024-11-12-1(iphone)/Plexamp.5.log:Nov 10, 2024 11:19:11.544 [Javascript] INFO - Audio Route: Network state changed to 1 so we're switching to local.
/Users/elan/Downloads/Plexamp-Logs-2024-11-12-1(iphone)/Plexamp.5.log:Nov 10, 2024 11:30:47.084 [Javascript] INFO - Audio Route: Network state changed to 1 so we're switching to local.
/Users/elan/Downloads/Plexamp-Logs-2024-11-12-1(iphone)/Plexamp.5.log:Nov 10, 2024 12:16:42.715 [Javascript] INFO - Audio Route: Network state changed to 1 so we're switching to local.

What’s happening is the phone is disconnecting any time it loses WiFi (which makes some sense).

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Ha! So not a Plexamp issue at all. I had know idea that my phone was disconnecting from WiFi so often… I’ll look elsewhere to fix this. Sorry to waste your time, but thank you for your help!

Craig

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Just a quick follow up, in case this helps someone else. It seems iOS has this annoying feature called “WiFi assist” which may or may not be enabled by default, I don’t remember. As far as I can tell, it’s main function is to continually disconnect your headless Plexamp from your iOS Plexamp app. Turning it off seemed to do the trick!

Thanks again for the help!

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