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MC21 on Raspbian disapears from Playing Now list. PCs connect fine.

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designmule:
The timedatectl command results in "command not found" but I've checked the pi very regularly at the same time each evening and when I looked up UTC time during that period it matched up to what was shown in JRiver so it must be using UTC time.

Though I haven't been able to sit at the computer for hours on end and see if the pi disappears, I have been connecting to it via JRemote periodically throughout the day without problem. It has stayed connected four 24 hours. However, I have changed nothing since the last disconnect (where the JRiver SDDP server reported "processing").

I'm thinking the frequent disconnects might have been related to the time being way off. Though if it uses UTC maybe that shouldn't be the case... I'll keep an eye on things and continue to report back but I am optimistic this problem is licked.

I have a second pi I will be setting up once my HIFIberry Dac+Pro arrives. This might give me the chance to do more local troubshooting if the problem persists.

I appreciate all the attention and effort to resolve my issue.
Matt

designmule:
I thought I'd follow up here and let anyone who comes across this thread with similar issues know what my resolutions are.

I posted this thread because my initial issue was that my pi was frequently (minute to minute) connecting to the playing now list on Windows install and then disconnecting. The two things I changed which seemed to resolve this were 1.) ensuring that the system time on the pi was set correctly and 2.) having the pi connect to the library server on the Windows box (even though I don't use the pi this way). I can't say for sure which corrected the problem but having changed both I did not experience frequent (minute to minute) connects and disconnects.

As the troubleshooting moved forward I experienced what appeared to be disconnect on a more drawn out basis (12 hours or so). Initially I thought this was the same problem as above but later I realized that JRiver was freezing up. The only way I could make JRiver reconnect was to reboot the pi.

I made two settings changes which seems to have resolved this second issue 1.) I disabled playback from memory in JRiver 2.) I removed a line from my pi config file which I added to reduce the GPU memory (my pi is headless, I didn't think the GPU needed much memory). With these two changes JRiver on the pi has been up and running without disconnects for several days.

In both cases there are two possible fixes. I can't tell you for sure that it is one, the other or both that took care of the problem but I'm offering up a couple of troubleshooting options for two different issues.

I hope this helps someone in the future (I'm a big believer in forums) and I want to thank those of you who spent time trying to help me resolve the problems I was experiencing.

Matt

JimH:
Thanks for posting your solutions.

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