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beocreate - trouble installing software

David Hendry

April 03, 2018 02:05

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 Hello,

I've got a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ connected to a beocreate board. Neither of the two images (beocreate.img, nor beocreate-raspbian.img) work when written to an SD card (32 GB Sandisk Ultra) and inserted. The system hangs on the rainbow screen and 4 slow, 4 fast green LED flashes repeat.

Next I got NOOBS 2.7 to work and installed Raspbian Full. When I install the beocreate software using the standard code below, the system eventually reboots but then hangs on a screen with a text box saying "Waiting for SD card (settings partition)". 

Any ideas?

Thanks, David.

 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git
git clone https://github.com/hifiberry/beocreate-tools
cd beocreate-tools
./install-all

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  David Hendry April 03, 2018 03:46

  Update: Next I tried PiBakery with Raspbian Lite. Seems to have worked, though now the http://www.bang-olufsen.com/recreate/setup/  setup on windows 7 chrome can't find the board (I've got the bonjour print services installed) . I've checked the "forever list" and the beocreate-server.js server is STOPPED. I tried to start it with "node beocreate-server.js" but it says it can't find module 'mdns'.

   

  Any further thoughts?

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  HiFiBerry team April 03, 2018 04:34

  Hi,

  I'm sorry for this issue. We have did not yet upgrade the Beocreate software for the new Raspberry Pi 3B+. Is this the only Raspberry Pi that you own? If you still have an older model that should boot the software just fine. We'll provide updated software packages soon.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  HiFiBerry team April 03, 2018 10:48

  Hi David,

  I've updated the Beocreate images for teh Raspberry Pi 3B+. Can you please try the Beocreate image again:
  http://downloads.hifiberry.com/images/beocreate.img.zip
  
  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  David Hendry April 03, 2018 14:27

  Thanks for the quick response Daniel - the software seems to be working correctly, and running smoothly via the browser setup.

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  David Hendry April 04, 2018 03:03

  Hi again,

  I've installed Airplay 1 via the web setup, but I can't see the device with my iOS phone.

  Is there a trick that I'm perhaps missing? 

  Thanks, David.

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  HiFiBerry team April 04, 2018 05:10

  Hi,

  did the device reboot after the installation? Are you running both on the same network?

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 04, 2018 17:06

  Everything installed fine, but...

  AirPlay won't show up on my iPhone or iMac

  Whenever I try to connect with Spotify (iOS/macOS), it hangs and fails, then it shows the speaker twice in the list... I have a Premium account

  The only thing that works is Bluetooth

  I tried using ethernet only, or wifi only, or both

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 04, 2018 17:36

  BTW I could not get Pi-Bakery to work at all — had to use sudo dd bs=1m if=beocreate.img of=/dev/rdisk# conv=sync

  Reading about Spotifyd on the Github page makes me think there's so step missing from the setup. Shouldn't I enter in my Spotify account details somewhere? Shouldn't the spotifyd command also work?

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  HiFiBerry team April 04, 2018 20:42

  Hi,

  spotifyd will work without account details as long as teh Spotify client is in the same network. You only need this if you want to control Spotify from a remote network. 

  You installed Spotify from the user interface, but your Spotify client doesn't see it? Sometimes it can take some time until it is shown.

  Also Airplay isn't working? 

  Did you install Airplay and Spotify from the user interface (they are not installed by default)?

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  David Hendry April 05, 2018 00:32

  Yep same problem here: Spotify premium on my iPhone sees the Raspberry Pi daemon, tries to connect (it says "Connecting..." down the bottom), but doesn't, and continues to play on the previous device

  Also, my iPhone still doesn't see any airplay device available.

  Both Airplay and Spotify were installed with the web user interface, the Pi has been reset and all devices are on the same network.

  Maybe another issue related to model 3 B+ ?

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  David Hendry April 05, 2018 01:14

  Also, just noticed that no bluetooth devices are showing up in iOS bluetooth settings.

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  HiFiBerry team April 05, 2018 05:02

  Hi David,

  I don't think this has anything to do with the 3B+. Do I understand this correctly: Neither Bluetooth, nor Airplay or Spotify is working. You can't connect to the board with any of these?

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 05, 2018 09:08

  I have the original RPi 3B, Bluetooth was the only thing that worked fine.

  I cloned the beocreate.img to the microSD, did all the setup through a browser, no problems there.
  I could not use ApplePi-Baker 1.9.5 on macOS 10.12.6 (freezes when I click the restore button) so I used dd in terminal — I doubt that is an issue.

  AirPlay would not show up on any device I have (iPhone 6s Plus, iMac 5K 2014).

  Regarding spotifyd...
  I could see the speaker in Spotify on both my iPhone and iMac — when I tried to connect, it would say "Connecting..." for a few seconds, and fail, then I would see the speaker twice in the list. This is the same on both my phone and my computer. I briefly tried the latest version as suggested by Tuomas in another thread, but it was just the same.

  
  
  
  

   

  Will try to reinstall everything later today, since that worked for Philippe... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  David Hendry April 05, 2018 13:33

  Hi Daniel,

  Yep that's right: I can't connect with Bluetooth, Airplay or Spotify. Optical input is working though, and I have successfully reprogrammed the DSP with crossovers and complex equalization for my 2.1 system. Sounding great!

  Maybe I'll also try reinstalling everything to see if it helps. Have the github beocreate-tools been updated to work with the 3B+? (so I can start with a fresh Raspbian image)

  Thanks, David.

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  HiFiBerry team April 05, 2018 13:49

  Hi David,

  the beocreate-tools repo hasn't been updated. However, this isn't needed as it just runs on Raspbian. You only need an updated Raspbian for the RPI3. All the software does not need changes, it's just the Linux kernel.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  David Hendry April 05, 2018 14:04

  Hi Daniel,

  So that's where I started (fresh Raspbian with beocreate-tools install), but it didn't work (see first post, second sentence). 

  I guess I can try it again to see if anything's changed.

  -David.

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  HiFiBerry team April 05, 2018 14:06

  Ok, we're talking about 2 different things here. The Beocreate software has been updated for the Pi3 B+ and new images are available. The beocreate-tools is just a collection of tools to be used on a standard Raspbian (or other systems).

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 05, 2018 16:58

  David, I would try downloading the beocreate.img, install spotifyd through the webui, then install the latest version of spotifyd, this fixed the issue for me and a few others.

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 05, 2018 17:46

  I also just got AirPlay to work...

  I tried to compile it from https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync (including all the options), I did get some strange errors at first (would not build (no make file found) untill I did autoreconf again, then ./configure again, after that make worked, and I could finally install) — this didn't actually work, but using the WebUI installer after all this made it finally work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  My guess is that the WebUI installer is failing somewhere, just like how it failed the first time I ran the commands manually. Maybe have an option to update/reinstall in the WebUI wouldn't be a bad idea?

   

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  David Hendry April 06, 2018 15:07

  Update:

  Got spotifyd to work by installing the latest version as per https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360002772165-Spotifyd-hangs-on-install-won-t-install (and thanks Sveinn)

  Interestingly, a bluetooth connection was available before I installed Spotifyd via the WebUI. After installing, the bluetooth disappeared, and is no longer available.

   

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 06, 2018 15:14

  Weird, Bluetooth has never been an issue on my side — using the original RPi 3B, not the latest 3B+

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  David Hendry April 06, 2018 15:17

  Also, I get a loud click or pop between songs using spotifyd. Do you hear that Sveinn?

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 06, 2018 15:20

  What I think is the root cause of all the issues, is the package manager not being updated before installing anything — I would try to SSH into the RPi after a clean install, and sudo apt-get update before installing spotifyd or shairport-sync

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 06, 2018 15:21

  Yeah, I did hear a few pops last night when I was testing

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  Vicente Pazo April 06, 2018 16:42

  Hi David and Sveinn, 

  I also hear the pop, when I go to the next song manually (not when the next song in playlist is played automatically).

   

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  HiFiBerry team April 06, 2018 17:36

  I'll have a look into this. Maybe we can do some DSP magic...

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  David Hendry April 08, 2018 14:55

  Anyone having issues with the spotify device dropping out?

  Mine seems to drop out after a few hours/days and disappears from the spotify "connect to a device" menu. When this happens, the "systemctl status spotify.service" still shows "active (running)" in green but I do see an error line in the log that says "[ERROR] Caught panic with message:" but with no message.

   

  A "sudo systemctl restart spotify.service" brings it back. 

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  Sveinn Davidsson April 09, 2018 05:48

  I haven't been able to test it for that long yet — I'll leave it on overnight and see what happens.

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  Sveinn Davidsson June 19, 2018 13:02

  still hearing pretty loud pops on the left channel when spotifyd changes songs
  
  

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  Duncan July 07, 2018 13:01

  Any solutions to the popping and clicking when playing Spotify?
  I tried executing a sine synth on the pi permanently at like 20000hz so I can’t hear it (dogs go mad!) and that seems to reduce the issue somewhat but not 100%. Assume it’s an initializatikn after each song from the pi?