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FD- / RPiPlay

An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.
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Only running audio / crashes from Apple Music #112

Open Levilutz opened 4 years ago

Levilutz commented 4 years ago

Trying to use this to just stream audio, but it appears there's no option to disable screen mirroring and just accept audio.

Potentially part of the same issue, attempting to connect to the device from Apple Music on a computer just gives the error message in Music: The AirPlay device “RPiPlay” cannot be found on your network. Please verify your network settings and AirPlay configuration or select another device.

Nothing shows up from RPiPlay when attempting to connect, even with the debug option on. Both devices are on the same network, and it doesn't appear anything is blocking the connection.

Intrestingly, screen mirroring works fine so long as I don't play music. However, if I use Apple Music over AirPlay while mirroring, the mirror ends and my raspberry pi appears to freeze. I can still ssh into the pi and kill the rpiplay process, but the screen stays stuck in the last frame of mirroring until I restart.

Trying to get debug logs of what gets printed when it crashes, so I'll put them here when I can.

Levilutz commented 4 years ago

testlog.log testlog2.log

Seems like the first time it crashed halfway through printing "Got h264 data of XXX bytes". Printing wasn't cutoff from killing the process; that was the last log message before it froze.

The second time it appears something was up with the connection for the last moments before it froze.

Interestingly, audio did stream for a bit both times. Audio quality gradually deteriorated, and it crashed after either pausing and playing the music again or letting it play for too long.

pallas commented 4 years ago

Adding this to my TODO list.

FD- commented 4 years ago

Regarding connecting directly from Apple Music, my guess is that tries to use the separate audio-only protocol (ALAC audio), while RPiPlay only supports the mirroring protocol (AAC audio).