Issue with SnapClient

[edbrk]

Hello, So i followed the tutorial for the enhancements to install your own Music Assistant on the Wyoming Voice Satellite.

Using an identical configuration. Including hardware with a rasberry pi 2 zero w, I'm getting intermittent cut-outs of audio when playing music and general use of the voice assistant. This error appears in the snapclient journelctl log.

Mar 07 02:18:15 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 888, available: 212
Mar 07 02:18:15 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 1752, available: 1662
Mar 07 02:18:16 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 1728, available: 759
Mar 07 02:18:21 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 1752, available: 772
Mar 07 02:18:21 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 896, available: 17
Mar 07 02:18:34 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 888, available: 838
Mar 07 02:19:02 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 888, available: 501
Mar 07 02:19:02 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 896, available: 170
Mar 07 02:19:05 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 1684, available: 1533
Mar 07 02:19:05 raspberrypi snapclient[882]: Exception: Not enough frames available, requested frames: 888, available: 136

It seems to me maybe some network instability is causing this? Not entirely sure. Is there any way to lower that amount of requested frames, or maybe increase the buffer, would prefer there to be a bit of a delay if it meant this didnt happen. Every time it seems to be requesting 888.

Thanks!

[n8ohu]

If you adjusted the settings to 333 in the Snapcast server, try setting them to 500 or higher and see if that makes it go away.

[edbrk]

Hmmm this is an interesting discovery. When plugged into decent headphones, it seems to stutter but when plugged into separately powered speakers it seems to perform fine.

My only guess for this is that when plugged into headphones the raspberry pi is not able to use much power as some is being diverted to the headphones, meaning it under performs causing the stuttering.

[debdalerichard]

Silly question...what power supply are you using to power the raspberry pi?? i run mine with at least 5Amp