I ma not sure if my problem id purely related to RC3, or if i have activated an option that cause the problem:
After a while without using my Rasplex (TV powered off, for example), the Rasplex goes in deep sleep (or powered off ?). The sole LED lit is the red one.
have no other solution to restart the RaspPi than unplug/replug the power chord... which is not very user-friendly.
I'd rather like ,t he rasplex to stay awake 24/24 or to be able to wake it by simply switching the TV on (if possible ?).
I ma not sure if my problem id purely related to RC3, or if i have activated an option that cause the problem:
After a while without using my Rasplex (TV powered off, for example), the Rasplex goes in deep sleep (or powered off ?). The sole LED lit is the red one.
have no other solution to restart the RaspPi than unplug/replug the power chord... which is not very user-friendly.
I'd rather like ,t he rasplex to stay awake 24/24 or to be able to wake it by simply switching the TV on (if possible ?).
What can i do to solve this issue ?
When only the red LED is lit, this does correspond to the final state after a proper shutdown, whereas a crashed/frozen program usually results in at least one of the other LED shining or blinking. So it does seem likely (though not at all certain) that your RPi has been shutdown through one of the special features allowing this to be done automatically. Those features include scheduled shutdown for power saving and TV-interactive shutdown through the HDMI interface (aka: CEC protocol). The power saving settings are found in the submenu "Preferences" / "System" / "Power Saving", and the CEC settings are found in the submenu "Preferences" / "System" / "Input Devices" / "Peripherals", there you should find an entry for your TV set and opening this should present you with various options to enable/disable, including shutdown of the RPi together with the TV.
If none of those settings seem responsible, then you may have stumbled across one of the instability issues of the RC3 version, which will hopefully be eliminated in the upcoming RC4 release. From my own experience with RC3 I find it to be less stable if left long-term in the main menu, as compared to the greater reliability of leaving it in the pre-play/post-play screen of some video (movie or show episode). I believe this may have to do with the constant handling of background art which occurs in the main menu (even if disabled, it still occurs, in all PHT versions). Any resource 'leak' in those operations can cause eventual crashing. But in the pre-play/post-play screens the art shown is constant, so no leakage should occur. So if nothing else helps for you, try 'parking' the RPi in such screens before leaving it unused long-term.
As for having the RPi turned on with the TV, that's only possible if you power it from a USB port of the TV. But doing so also has some risks, as the TV might be turned off (thus cutting power to the RPi) while the RasPlex program is writing to storage (log files or whatever). So that usage can lead to corruption of the SDcard.
I have had only the red led on not only when the RPI is off, but also when I lost network connectivity (shut down the switch that the RPI is connected to).
So try to figure out if this could be a network issue.
It's hard to say from this info what is going wrong. What i can say is that i have worked on these stuttering issues that were coming in RC3 and previous versions.
There are various factors, most of them being audio related and also depending on containers & Packets size.
Anyways, the playback has been drastically improved in next version and i doubt that you will see anymore stutter ... just be patient :)
Will wait for RC4 :-)
Any ETA for next Release, weekend is comming and i got some time :-D
There seems to be an analog audio issue, whenever I play a video or Airplay it gives a screaching sound and a constant noise. I've tried it with multiple audio cables and speakers which all works just fine with my Mac but gives me a screaching sound with my RPi.
There seems to be an analog audio issue, whenever I play a video or Airplay it gives a screaching sound and a constant noise. I've tried it with multiple audio cables and speakers which all works just fine with my Mac but gives me a screaching sound with my RPi.
Please describe in greater detail how your RPi is configured and connected.
By default RasPlex is configured to use HDMI only, without any use of the separate analog outputs.
So to use those you must have reconfigured something.
Successful use of external audio amplifiers and speakers is often based on connecting them to the audio outputs of a TV set or AV receiver which is fed by the HDMI output of the RPi. The Analog audio outputs of the RPi itself are mainly intended for use together with the composite video output connector (which also requires reconfiguration of the "config.txt" file of RasPlex).
Movie or TV, hard lockups intermittently. Sometimes when playing, has happened paused too. Need to pull power.
Source is remote server running 0.9.9.10.
New user, so any advice would be appreciated.
This kind of lockup can have many different causes, some of which include 'badly' flashed SD card, too 'weak' PSU, corruption of SD card content due to earlier such crashes, and the list goes on. And of course that list also includes possible bugs of the RasPlex software and firmware.
Without knowing more details about your stuff all I can say at this point is to check for obvious causes, such as SD card quality (Class 10 recommended), PSU capability (2A capacity recommended), and to hope for better results with the upcoming RC4 release. (Hopefully not far off now.)
