Snapcast server not working?

[DeshDe]

Hi,

I'm using Volumio 2.8.3.4 on a pi 3 plus.

Following your manual installation instructions I've installed the snapcast plugin, which hangs at the end at "finishing installation", but showed that the installation was complete earlier. As the plug-in was visible in Volumio, I've enabled and configured it, but it seems, that the server part is not streaming. When I save the snapcast server settings a red message pops up shortly, but is replaced by the green box so fast, I can not read the message. MPT.log shows no entry of this message.

Any idea how to solve this?

Thanks in advance

Edit: Added screenshot of error message (after recording it)

[DeshDe]

I've solved it somehow:

1. Install Volumio (rpi image)
2. ssh in and "sudo chmod 777 /etc"
3. Manually install plugin as described in readme.md (hangs at the end btw, but works) Is it working? yes Audio quality? poor, need to see what I can do for that (using "-c flac:4" option)

[Saiyato]

Hi @DeshDe ,

This is a known issue, the only way around it is:

1. Set the rights way too permissive (as you did)
2. Figure out a way to edit the asound.conf and place it back using root (as opposed to volumio); e.g. in the form of a service

Option 1 will be reset on every update I think, option 2 is the best way... however this requires a lot of extra work and testing. This option has been explored and seems to work, but will take extra time to release.

[tekdru]

I am running Volumio 2.861 on RPI 3 B+ with snapcast 2.5.1. I can't get snapcast to work again even after trying "sudo chmod 777 /etc". It's the same problem on two of my RPI 3 B+.

here is the log when I try saving snapserver settings.

info: CALLMETHOD: miscellanea snapcast updateSnapServer [object Object] info: CoreCommandRouter::executeOnPlugin: snapcast , updateSnapServer info: Successfully updated snapserver configuration volumio : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl restart snapserver pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Stopping Snapcast server... info: Touched asound config Received SIGTERM signal. info: Cleared previous asound config info: CMD: /bin/sh /data/plugins/miscellanea/snapcast/snapcast_asound_patch.sh info: Successfully executed script {/data/plugins/miscellanea/snapcast/snapcast_asound_patch.sh} Exception in StreamSession::reader(): read_some: End of file Exception in StreamSession::reader(): read_some: End of file Exception in ControlSession::reader(): read_until: Bad file descriptor Exception in ControlSession::reader(): read_until: Bad file descriptor Exception in ControlSession::reader(): read_until: Bad file descriptor daemon terminated. Starting Snapcast server... Settings file: "/var/lib/snapserver/server.json" pipe:///tmp/snapfifo?name=VOLUMIO-126&mode=read&sampleformat=44100:16:2 2021-01-09 02-12-11 [Notice] Settings file: "/var/lib/snapserver/server.json" daemon started Started Snapcast server. pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root Exception in Controller::worker(): read_some: End of file info: snapserver started StreamServer::NewConnection: ::ffff:192.168.50.123 Connected to 127.0.0.1 StreamServer::NewConnection: ::ffff:127.0.0.1

[Saiyato]

Please try the new plugins for this functionality:

https://github.com/Saiyato/volumio-snapserver-plugin https://github.com/Saiyato/volumio-snapclient-plugin