quite some time ago . . .
Look, I have a problem now with latest S@H.
I updated volumio finally on all my three Raspi-boxes. So far so good. After reinstalling S@H I can configure the app, setup the players ( rooms )
… and then I can only access the first room I configured, it always falls back to it.
I observed something strange: after I deinstalled the app and installed it again, it came up with an old configuration.
Since I was not able to use S@H on my 1.55 Volumios I used M.A.L.P in between to control the boxes . . .
Hi Torsten,
nice to see you back.
to check your issue could you please let me know if you used manual or automatic configuration?
Could you please let me know if you power off the 1st volumio device related to first room configuration, can you access room2 and volumio device 2?
Hi Torsten,
it seems room2 is wrongly configured with wrong IP address or the device of room2 changed the IP address after you configured on Sound@home room2.
Could you please just confirm me the IP address you configured on room2 is still the same IP used from device 2?
and in addition, when I try to reach a device at least something happens there.
I can see log events on each device (with journalctl -f ). . . .but S@H always falls back to the first device/room
Hi Torsten,
thanks so much for all the info you are providing me.
In order to find the root cause (maybe I found it) could you please let me know if you are playing some contents on other devices while trying to access to room2?
My hypothesis is that the bandwidth is occupied by the music streaming and so the room2 connection takes more time (I need to change the timer before to consider the device2 unreachable).
Hi,
no, none of the devices is playing. Anyway I cannot guarantee that WLAN is not busy with something . . . but I can access the devices with e.g. M.A.L.P or even other less comfortable apps.
cheers
T
Hi Torsten,
seems I found the issue and it is related to 3 Room configuration.
Could you please try to use 4 Rooms Configuration and configure only the first 3?
Is it somehow possible to add an Android device as room/speaker/playback device?
Or do I indeed need a RaspberryPi in every location where I want to have a sound output?
That would be a bit expensive and I already have plenty of spare Android devices…
I understood it in the beginning that I just need one VolumioOS as server and then would be able to use my Android Sticks/Smarthones/Boxes for multiroom audio playback. Now I bought already one Raspberry and am afraid that I really need 5 of them to have finally my multiroom setup?
And is it possible to have lets say 3 bluetooth-sticks in the raspberry and connect them to 3 different bluetooth speakers at the same time to have 4 (additionally the 3,5mm jack) simultaneous outputs on that “room” (would be outside)?
I am also seeing this issue of not being able to change room/player, only two players in my network though.
However…
I have two Pi’s, one named Biblioteket (library) and the other named Altanen (back porch).
Whichever I configure first will be on top of the list, manual configuration
If I select the second player the screen will flicker real short with the content playing on the second and then go back to the first
If I then press back on my android device (I have tested this with a Samsung Mini 5 and a Meizu M3) I will get the screen for the second player, the buttons work, I can change music, access playlist etc BUT the top menu row still shows the first player as selected…!
have manually configured 3no. volumio devices running v2.175 and sound@home v4.3 only lets you select one device. When you try and select another, the screen momentarily flashes, and it returns to the same device without changing…
Thanks for developing this software, much appreciated.
Did some more testing of this today and this is my findings… I have 2 Pi’s with the latest Volumio, both already configured so I add them manually.
Configure S@H manually for two units, well that’s decribed above
Set S@H for three or more units, basically the same as above EXCEPT if I leave the FIRST slot unconfigured!
Leaving the first slot empty let’s me choose player from the start screen without any problem!
However in this config I get some other strange things happening when I use the dropdown menu to change room, I’ll try to be clear but I might fail. Remember that slot 1 is empty
Select #2 from start screen, dropdown meny does nothing at all, not even the flicker seen before.
Select #3 from start screen, dropdown menu shows the name of #2, player screen shows the content and controls for #3.
Selecting #2 from dropdown does nothing, select #3 and both player and menu changes to #2!
Feels like a pointer that starting on 1 instead of 0 or viceversa somewhere
Hi again,
any ideas ? At least I still have the same problem.
S@H always claims “device not reachable” for the second ( and up) configured device(s)
cheers
Torsten
Hi All,
after long time new version 4.4 has been released on Google Play.
Fixed some issues due to some incompatibility with new version of Volumio and new version of Android.
Enjoy the new Sound@home with also “Alarm” feature added.
