Pirate Radio Kit!

[efs]

Internet Radio on your Pirate Radio:

https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/internet-radio-on-your-pirate-radio

I have followed the steps in the link above. I have added the internet radio links using the link: http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2015/04/updated-list-of-bbc-network-radio-urls/

However, the station (BBC RADIO 2) plays alright. Then all of the sudden it will stop playing for no reason. The raspberry pi is connected with the wifi…

Then I have to reboot it again and then it works and after few minutes it stops again. It is very frustrating.

Can anyone help please!

[gadgetoid]

How long, approximately, does it play for? There seem to be a few people on the forums reporting similar things at the moment.

If you run: lsb_release -sc in a terminal on your Pi, what does it say?

Possibly related:

Pirate Radio VLCd stop after 1-2 min

Hello, I have just received and assembled my Pirate Radio. It’s installed with 2017-08-16-raspbian-stretch-lite.img The installation was ok. When i reboot, the music start and stop after 1 or 2minutes. The process VLC stopped. I try ti use several radio and none of them played for a long time. the vlc log file contains warning pi@raspberrypi:/var/run/vlcd $ more vlcd.log – logger module started – core error: no suitable interface module core error: interface “globalhotkeys,none” init…

Edit. I think it’s another case of:

Pirate Radio after update from Jessie to Stretch instable

Never change a running system - my pirate radio need to be reinstalled with jessie for stability! It seems that the stretch distribution is not really stabile. After several reboots the system doesn’t start properly. Sound or LED is not available.

[alphanumeric]

I occasionally have stations just stop. No sound and VU meter freezes. If I press the play pause button they usually start again. If it happens again with that channel I just switch channels. Doesn’t happen all the time for me, seems random. Mine aren’t BBC Radio though, classic rock stations.

EDIT: forgot to mention, I’m still on Jessie.

[gadgetoid]

I’d dare say the easiest short-term solution is to switch back to Jessie Lite until we can figure out what’s going awry in Stretch. You can get the image here:

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/raspbian_lite-2017-07-05/2017-07-05-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip

[efs]

Hello,

It runs approx 2 minutes.

I run lsb_release -sc -
It says - stretch

Thanks

[efs]

Thanks a lot… I will let you know how I get on with Jessie Lite.

[efs]

It works beautifully now. No complains!! After downloading the image from - https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/raspbian_lite-2017-07-05/2017-07-05-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip

I think the problem lies with ‘stretch’

Thanks very much

I am enjoying my music now…

WICKED!!

[gadgetoid]

I’ve posted an update with a config that works for me on Jessie. Nothing has changed in Pi VU Meter, but the troublesome dmix plugin has been dropped. See:

Pirate Radio after update from Jessie to Stretch instable

Okay, I’ve done a bit of sleuthing into this and found that the issue lies with “dmix” rather than Pi VU Meter Removing dmix from the equation gets audio output- including Pi VU Meter- up and running stably again. Dmix was included in an attempt to allow multiple audio streams to output to the same device, which is not really an issue with Pirate Radio and probably something better solved with Pulse Audio (since it also solves the popping issue). I’m not 100% sure what’s happening, but since …