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Peter_RN:
Hello
I wonder if anyone could help with a problem I am having with MC28 on a Rpi 4.

I have followed installation instructions kindly supplied by Wheaten here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,129811.0.html?PHPSESSID=jp8gmetafi5lc4le37pkothnu3 to the letter except for the section - Software Preparation. Because the music files are on an SSD connected directly to the USB3 input on the Pi those steps were not required.

The Pi boots and runs well as long as music is playing and with reasonably short periods of time when there is no music playing. However, if the Pi is left not playing music, overnight for example, the Pi hangs and is completely unreachable either from the streamers - they show 'no servers', by VNC & SSH - not reachable. The only option is to kill power and reboot.

If MC is closed overnight and reopened in the morning it runs as described. I don't always remember to close it at night though.

The Pi is one of 4 built into a data cabinet which is why pulling the power is a real pain as it is plugged in at the back of the cabinet.

Everything is connected to a Gbit Wired network - no wireless anywhere in the house.

I have tried creating a cron job to start MC each morning but have been unsuccessful - I am not sure if this is possible. I have see an old post here that talks about creating a service to do this but the post referred to no longer exists.

Another issue probably unrelated is when I use VNC Viewer on a Mac to connect to the Pi, I click through the warning - 'This VNC-compatible Server software is non-standard, and may fail to work' etc - but the interface is so sluggish it is almost unusable - is this normal? I have tried to find an alternative viewer but have not been successful so far - I am not a Mac user normally and generally prefer windows but I am waiting to be able to purchase a new server when they become available again.

Many thanks for any  suggestions.

Wheaten:
Have you ever monitored the temperature of the rPi, as it's running 24/7 and a USB disk attached,
Is there any note of voltage underrun or Yellow lighting thingy?

Yes accessing the rpi via RDP is sluggish. I did provide some optimizations, but far from ideal. You can lower the resolution of the rpi, to get a better response.

Peter_RN:

--- Quote from: Wheaten on March 06, 2022, 10:28:14 am ---Have you ever monitored the temperature of the rPi, as it's running 24/7 and a USB disk attached,
Is there any note of voltage underrun or Yellow lighting thingy?

Yes accessing the rpi via RDP is sluggish. I did provide some optimizations, but far from ideal. You can lower the resolution of the rpi, to get a better response.

--- End quote ---

Many thanks for your reply.
Yes the temperature is constantly displayed on the toolbar and is rarely above 40C an attached fan cuts in at this temperature plus the data cabinet has 4 200mm fans that operate at 20C. I have never seen the yellow thunderbolt sign on any of my Pi's (I have 8 in use) and just now running vcgencmd get_throttled results in throttled=0x0.

I will look again at your recommendation regarding sluggish RDP response and thanks again for your original instructions.

Regards, Peter

Zhillsguy:
I was recently having similar issues with my RPi4-4 with the 32bit OS I had installed using those instructions. Ran fine for months. I couldn't figure it out so I reinstalled the OS using a different method.

I downloaded the rpi os image (this time 64bit) and wrote it directly to the USB ssd using Rufus. Once the pi is set up for booting from USB, it will do so if a sd card is not installed. Installed with no problems and running fine for a couple of weeks now.

Worth a shot.

JimH:
You might have better luck on the Raspberry forum. 

There are well known power issues with some RPi's.  Try a Google search.

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