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Airplay issues - Speaker does not show up

Raman Bhatnagar

April 25, 2018 22:15

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Hi,

 

Have installed the Airplay as a source on the speaker, but the speaker does not show up as an Airplay speaker on my IOS devices.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

 

Raman

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  HiFiBerry team April 26, 2018 06:43

  Hi Raman,

  there is a bug in the Airplay module. Can you login to the system (via console or ssh) and then run the following commands:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo /home/pi/beocreate-installer install-source shairport-sync

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Raman Bhatnagar April 26, 2018 07:24

  Hi again,

   

  the system is asking for a password. I cannot recall that I entered any password while setting it up.

  Advice please.

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  HiFiBerry team April 26, 2018 07:36

  User: pi
  Password: raspberry

   

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  Raman Bhatnagar April 26, 2018 10:06

  Thanks - worked just great. 
  
  Is there a similar fix for the Spotify Connect as well?

  Cannoct connect with Spotify even though the options is visible

   

  Raman

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  Tuomas April 26, 2018 10:12

  Hi Raman,

  the equivalent commands to install Spotify Connect are:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo /home/pi/beocreate-installer install-source spotifyd

   

  All the best,

  Tuomas from Bang & Olufsen

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  Raman Bhatnagar April 26, 2018 15:46

  Thanks!

   

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  Raju Bitter April 27, 2018 14:28

  Had the same problem with Airplay, reinstalling shairport-sync from source solved the problem. Thanks,
  Raju

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  Dominik Vötter April 29, 2018 18:28

  Hello,

   

  I tried 

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo /home/pi/beocreate-installer install-source shairport-sync

  But despite that i still am not able to see the speakers on my IPhone via Airplay . Is there anything else which could help?

  Edited by Dominik Vötter April 29, 2018 18:38
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  Tuomas April 29, 2018 18:32

  Hi Dominik,

  have you restarted the system after running the installer?

   

  Best,

  Tuomas from Bang & Olufsen

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  Dominik Vötter April 29, 2018 18:33

  Hi Tuomas,

   

  Yes of course. It ordered me to do a reboot, which i did. after that i restarted it.

  Greetings

  Edited by Dominik Vötter April 29, 2018 18:36
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  Tuomas April 29, 2018 18:37

  Thanks.

  What do you see if you run the following?

  service shairport-sync status

   

  Best,

  Tuomas from Bang & Olufsen

   

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  Dominik Vötter April 29, 2018 18:46

  So i ran sudo /home/pi/beocreate-installer install-source shairport-sync again.

  now the status is:

  ● shairport-sync.service - Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/shairport-sync.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)

  Edited by Dominik Vötter April 29, 2018 18:48
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  Tuomas April 29, 2018 18:48

  Thanks for following up. It looks like we're getting somewhere. Let's see why it's dead.

  First do sudo service shairport-sync stop

  Then try starting it manually by simply running shairport-sync

  This will likely expose any configuration errors we might be dealing with.

   

  Best,

  Tuomas from Bang & Olufsen

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  Dominik Vötter April 29, 2018 18:55

  Thanks very much Tuomas!

  I didn't need to try sync stop because i accidentally ran the install again (copy & pasted the wrong line) and suddenly it showed up on my devices.

  it seems to be working now:

  ● shairport-sync.service - Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/shairport-sync.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2018-04-29 18:47:19 UTC; 5min ago
   Main PID: 502 (shairport-sync)
     CGroup: /system.slice/shairport-sync.service
             └─502 /usr/local/bin/shairport-sync
  
  Apr 29 18:47:19 bw-ba294 systemd[1]: Started Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver.

  Greetings!

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  Tuomas April 29, 2018 18:58

  Super, glad to hear it's working!

  Please reach out if you run into any more trouble.

   

  All the best,

  Tuomas from Bang & Olufsen

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  lars.tirsbak April 30, 2018 12:54

  Im having the same issues. 
  
  Have tried the solutions mentioned above. 
  
  Whenim running the sudo service shairport-sync stop i'm not getting getting any messages from the device - is that right? 

  Using the shairport-sync  - after  that is the same thing - nothing happens 

   

  best regards Lars T (denmark)

   

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  Tuomas April 30, 2018 13:12

  Hi Lars,

  sudo service shairport-sync stop should not give any messages, that is expected.

  Running shairport-sync should produce either a Succesful Startup message or an error. See below an example from my system:

  

  Best,

  Tuomas from Bang & Olufsen

  Edited by Tuomas April 30, 2018 13:13
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  lars.tirsbak April 30, 2018 13:16

  i dont get that message
  
  
  
  

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  Tuomas April 30, 2018 13:18

  Okay, it looks like the program itself is there but for some reason it quits immediately. What happens if you run shairport-sync -v ? You can also use either -vv or -vvv which increases the amount of messages it should give you.

  Best,

  Tuomas from Bang & Olufsen

  Edited by Tuomas April 30, 2018 13:28
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  lars.tirsbak April 30, 2018 13:19

  Nothing

   

  

  Edited by lars.tirsbak April 30, 2018 13:20
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  Tuomas April 30, 2018 16:23

  That is very strange indeed. Have you tried running the installer again (and rebooting afterwards) to see if that has any effect?

  Best,

  Tuomas from Bang & Olufsen

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  lars.tirsbak April 30, 2018 17:38

  Made a complete reinstall and did the things mentioned above - now airplay works! Thank you