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MC21 on Raspbian disapears from Playing Now list. PCs connect fine.
designmule:
Hello
Recently I began running JRiver on a pi using Raspbian. My preference is to control the pi as a DLNA renderer either from MC21 running on a Windows box or via JRemote. However, the pi doesn't seem to stay connected the the Windows box (it frequently appears and disappears from the playing now window).
I have a second PC which I use as a DLNA renderer and it stays connected just fine. When the pi was running volumio it stayed connected just fine. I don't think this is a JRiver thing but maybe a Raspbian thing as the other PC works and volumio worked. I installed Samba and Winbond hoping that a more visible pi would stay connected but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I've read the thread about IGMP snooping causing problems. Disabling it on my network did not seem to solve the problem (and I need IGMP on for my DVR to work).
Do any of you pi users have any suggestions?
mwillems:
Is your pi connected via WiFi? If so can you ping the Pi when it disappears? It may just be a connectivity issue with the Pi's wi-fi adapter (i.e. it may not be getting a good signal).
If you're using wi-fi, try the two tweaks I suggested in this post: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=98358.msg682806#msg682806
They produced a much more stable wi-fi connection for my Pi. Far and away, though, a wired connection is much more stable.
designmule:
Thank you.
My pi is wired. I haven't tried pinging it when it disappears, I will though. It is still visible in the network map on the Windows box when it is not visible in the playing now window.
mwillems:
--- Quote from: designmule on November 02, 2015, 10:54:21 am ---Thank you.
My pi is wired. I haven't tried pinging it when it disappears, I will though. It is still visible in the network map on the Windows box when it is not visible in the playing now window.
--- End quote ---
That's very odd then, I've never failed to see one of my wired Pis in JRiver. I'll be interested to see if you can ping it when it "goes dark."
designmule:
Just got the chance to test this. From the windows box I am able to ping the pi by name even when it is not showing up in the playing now window. I also VNC'd into the pi just to double check that JRiver is running, it is. On the pi, under media network I have "Use media network..." checked and under advanced I have only "DLNA Renderer..." checked as I don't think I need any of the other options enabled.
Currently I do not have the pi loading the library from the main server as I prefer to push to it via DLNA. Do you load the library on your pi(s)? I have tried this in the past and felt like the pi connects more frequently but it is not absolute. Additionally, when I ran volumio I only pushed to it.
I hope that no one thinks I am saying snobbily "well volumio could do it, why can't JRiver?" I really only mention volumio because it is sort of a custom distro which I mean more to compare to Raspbian maybe they have more network stuff included or configred.
I appreciate the help and I'm happy to try out any additional suggestions.
Matt
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