Volumio 3 Spotify Connect not working

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We have 5 Volumio players in our house. I have uppgraded one of them to Volumio 3 and it sounds great, but I can´t get Spotify Connect to work.
The normal Spotify plugin is working fine, but Volumio 3 does not show up as a device in the Spotify app on my phone. I made a new installation of Volumio 3, but with the same result.
The HW in this player is RPi3+ and HIFIBerry DAC+ Pro.

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Is Spotify Connect working on Volumio 3?
I have to know if the problem is my installation…

3

For me it works just fine.

Perhaps share logs and someone can take look, if something obvious is wrong in here.

4

It is, been using it during the beta phase a lot and now on the release version, on RPi occasionally and x86 very often.
Lots of others are using it as well.

5

Thank You for the information.
I will see if I can find the problem.

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Create a log when you’re getting stuck. That might help

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I am unable to connect to Spotify Connect on Volumio 3.
Here is my log file:
http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/IK5dkBj.html

This was my sequence before sending the log file:

  1. Verified Connect2 plugin is installed and enabled
  2. Reboot Volumio
  3. The Spotify app cannot find the Volumio device as a Connect endpoint
  4. In Volumio Installed Plugins tab, disable and re-enable the Connect2 plugin
  5. Now the Spotify app shows the Volumio device as an endpoint
  6. On Spotify, select the Volumio device
  7. The device icon blinks for a few seconds but connection is not achieved
  8. Repeat a few times but it never connects

If I switch back to Volumio 2, Spotify Connect works again. However on Volumio 2 I also frequently had the issue where Spotify couldn’t find my Volumio device but it will find it after I disable/re-enable the Connect2 plugin.

*** Edit ***
I think I found the problem. Looking at the logs, it was showing an error with a missing mixer. I looked around Volumio settings and in Volume Options, the Mixer Type was set to “undefined”. I changed it to “None” and now Spotify Connect is working. I had never touched Mixer Type and I feel this is a Volumio setup problem that isn’t setting mixer to a proper default value.

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Nice find!!

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Thank You metro for the tip, but it did not work out. So I did it all over again used another sd-card, but with the same result. Everything works exept Spotify Connect. Then I tried another power supply, but it did not make any differens.
I use Linux Mint on my office computer with Raspberry Pi Imager v1.6.2 making the card. So I tried Balena Etcher instead on the same computer and that solved my problem.
After that I have written it two more times with the same result on two different sd-cards.
The reason I tried this is that I have had some spoky problems with the usb-imager that comes with Linux Mint but balena Etcher has worked ok.
I tested the failing card in another RPi with the same result. No Spotify Connect

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Itś even more spoky because the first test with Volumio 3 I did was an upgrade trough UI from 2.917.
No image writer involved.