AudioLinux and NUC Troubleshooting and Tuning

[hifi25nl]

The script use only physical cores not virtual ones. 

[hifi25nl]

Yes is possible. In some systems could be better. Try to listen to differences... 

[hifi25nl]

What is the content of /etc/squeezelite.conf?

You must edit it manually with the right parameters.

You must use in this case squeezelite (not R2) and start squeezelite not R2 version

 

...And in ram mode you must save system

[hifi25nl]

The default is

# default squeezelite configuration
LOG_FILE="-f /var/log/squeezelite.log"
OPTIONS="-o front:CARD=Audio,DEV=0"

Where you should substitute  front:CARD=Audio,DEV=0 with your card option

[hifi25nl]

New menu version 090!

 

Now there is the new option

         14 "Copy/Backup current installation to another drive"
With this option you can easily transfer your installation from USB stick to internal drive or make a new USB stick for endpoint/server without loosing your configuration

 

The new installation will have different UUIDs and different computer name (audiolinux2), also Roon unique identity is changed. This way there will not be problems when running 2 audiolinux installations on the same Network.

 

Be careful when you select destination drive. The destination will be wiped off!

 

 

[hifi25nl]

First an explanation.

 

After enabling Isolated CPU cores the script will

1) Change the default boot option to "Audiolinux BFQ with audio exclusive CPU cores"

2) Copy all audio systemd services to a version with the "2" suffix, that will start them in specific core(s) with the systemd option CPUAffinity

3) Stop all previous running audio services

 

After reboot, you should start/enable your audio service (in your case Roonbridge) and using the option "SHOW running audio services" you should see that now the name is roonbridge2.

 

Do you see roonbridge2, right?

 

[hifi25nl]

This is my output, if I choose core 3 as isolated. I will check if this is a problem about more than one isolated core later.

 

[root@archlinux audiolinux]# ps -T -e -o pid,psr,cmd | grep RoonBridge
 3308   3 /bin/sh /opt/RoonBridge/start.sh
 3313   3 RoonBridge --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridge.exe
 3313   3 RoonBridge --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridge.exe
 3313   3 RoonBridge --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridge.exe
 3313   3 RoonBridge --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridge.exe
 3313   3 RoonBridge --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridge.exe
 3313   3 RoonBridge --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridge.exe
 3313   3 RoonBridge --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridge.exe
 3313   3 RoonBridge --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridge.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3551   3 RoonBridgeHelper --debug --gc=sgen --server RoonBridgeHelper.exe
 3554   3 /opt/RoonBridge/Bridge/processreaper 3551
 7941   0 grep RoonBridge
[root@archlinux audiolinux]# ps -T -e -o pid,psr,cmd | grep Raat
 8045   0 grep Raat
[root@archlinux audiolinux]# ps -T -e -o pid,psr,cmd | grep RAATServer
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 3425   3 RAATServer --debug --gc=sgen --server RAATServer.exe
 8086   0 grep RAATServer

 

[hifi25nl]

Some kernel threads cannot be limited to a single or group of cores. This is normal.

For the monitor option not showing roonbridge, this is an easy fix that I will make very soon.

[hifi25nl]

The boot option has the same name but the right parameters have been added.

 

You can check looking at /boot/loader/entries/audiolinuxBFQjail.conf

[hifi25nl]

https://gist.github.com/imrvelj/c65cd5ca7f5505a65e59204f5a3f7a6d

 

"Of importance is that this module is entirely unnecessary for most users.
It's simply a warning as these are commonly used modules for SAS/SCSI Disk Controllers in server hardware.

It's not recommended that you install these if you don't have such hardware in your system.
If you don't know what they are, don't install them.
Because if you did know what they are you'd know if you needed them to get your disks working."

[hifi25nl]

You can look with the command

systemctl list-timers
 

[hifi25nl]

You could try (if endpoint with roonbridge is connected to eno1, otherwise change to enp0s21f0u3)

RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="eno1"

[hifi25nl]

The simple solution would be to let choose the DAC when starting MPD, Squeezelite etc. 

I will think about this...

[hifi25nl]

If you have a version before 1.1.1, you should reinstall manually pstate-frequency (because of a bug in a previous version)

yaourt -S pstate-frequency

and reboot

 

Select MPD DAC is working fine here and also LMS. For specific problems of subscribers please contact me.

 

I remember that the menu is not designed for using numbers really, to select an option you should use arrow keys and Enter.

 

[hifi25nl]

28 minutes ago, austinpop said:

 

 

Thanks for the fix. I appear to have managed to avoid it, unless... Was this bug only occurring when used in conjunction with isolated cores? I have yet to use that feature, so perhaps that's why I did not see it.

 

I routinely twist maximum allowable torquage double-check frequency any time I reboot, to ensure my governor settings are still active.

 

 

No the fix has nothing to do with Audiolinux configuration, it was only a little bug in the previous version of pstate-frequency

[hifi25nl]

A better method is probably using systemd Network device configuration:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.html

There is the parameter BitsPerSecond

 

Quote

The link files are read from the files located in the system network directory /usr/lib/systemd/network, the volatile runtime network directory /run/systemd/network, and the local administration network directory /etc/systemd/network. Link files must have the extension .link; other extensions are ignored. All link files are collectively sorted and processed in lexical order, regardless of the directories in which they live. However, files with identical filenames replace each other. Files in /etc have the highest priority, files in /run take precedence over files with the same name in /usr/lib. This can be used to override a system-supplied link file with a local file if needed. As a special case, an empty file (file size 0) or symlink with the same name pointing to /dev/null disables the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").

The link file contains a [Match] section, which determines if a given link file may be applied to a given device, as well as a [Link] section specifying how the device should be configured. The first (in lexical order) of the link files that matches a given device is applied. Note that a default file 99-default.link is shipped by the system. Any user-supplied .link should hence have a lexically earlier name to be considered at all.

 

[hifi25nl]

No, upmpdcli has nothing to do with hqplayerd, that is using Rygel.

You should have

<upnp interface="auto"> in /home/audiolinux/.hqplayer/hqplayerd.xml

but in Audiolinux is already there.

 

In Bubble UPnP you will see HQPlayer, the value defined in

<title value="HQPlayer"/>

[hifi25nl]

...Why not use the option for Wifi in the main audiolinux menu?

[hifi25nl]

Did you update menu to last version?

[hifi25nl]

And I hope That you did't mess the network configuration, since I see Ethernet up 

[hifi25nl]

Can you contact me at [email protected] ?
For registered users and specific support that is the right way.

 

Anyway, delete the content of /etc/systemd/network/

rm /etc/systemd/network/*
configure WiFi and reboot

[hifi25nl]

Here HQPlayer to NAA is working very fine. This is most probably a network configuration problem.

 

You should check that:

1) You have the last version of NAA

2) Your network connection is properly set in audiolinux (both Audiolinux and Jussi NAA image are using the same systemd network)

Type networkctl and be sure that all interfaces are up. If you re using DHCP you should have

 

[Network]
DHCP=yes

 

in the file /etc/systemd/network/auto.network

With this you will have both ipv4 and ipv6 enabled, good if you have selected ipv6 in the hqplayer configuration file.

 

If you have further problems you can contact me directly at [email protected]

[hifi25nl]

4 GB could work (8 GB to be on the safe side)

You can remove the applications that you will not use. For example Roon, if you use only HQPlayer

yaourt -S roonserver roonbridge

After you can reinstall with

yaourt -S roonserver roonbridge

 

The same with hqplayer-embedded if you are running Roon

[hifi25nl]

40 minutes ago, rickca said:

Maybe you meant to say yaourt -R to remove apps you don't need?

 

Yes, It was yaourt -R...  for removing

[hifi25nl]

Password is needed only for remote login, otherwise Audiolinux have autologin. Boot time of lxqt version is very fast, few seconds.

Did you buy a license? Did you contact support at [email protected]?