[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio and HomePod / ATV4

[Georg Chini]

On 11.06.20 11:12, Jerome O'Flaherty wrote:
> I have been trying to get Pulseaudio setup on a headless RPI to provide output via a HomePod
>
> So, I have added the module-raop-discover to the default.pa.
>
> I can see my HomePod in the list of sinks.
> I can set the home as the default sink
>
> e.g.
> set-default-sink raop_output.Home-Pod.local
>
> But say playing a WAV file (as a test hangs??) e.g.
>
> pacat -v < ./DING.wav
> Opening a playback stream with sample specification 's16le 2ch 44100Hz' and channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
> Connection established.
> Stream successfully created.
> Buffer metrics: maxlength=4194304, tlength=352800, prebuf=349276, minreq=3528
> Using sample spec 's16le 2ch 44100Hz', channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
> Connected to device raop_output.Home-Pod.local (index: 3, suspended: no).
> Got EOF.
> Failed to drain stream: Timeout3 usec.
> Playback stream drained.
> Draining connection to server.
>
> On the same RPI I have forked-daapd working perfectly streaming audio to the HomePod (so I believe the connectivity is perfect) !!
>
> What I specifically want to do is use librespot to publish the HomePod locally around my network on Spotify and separately
> I can see that LibReSpot using using PulseAudio as its output and roughly hangs in the same place.
>
> So, basically I am wondering if anyone has successful managed to get the RAOP support in Pulseaudio to work - I did look at the
> source of forked-daapd and they seem to have their own RAOP codebase so possible they have forked the RAOP code for their own use.
>
> Anyway, any help would be great.
>
> Thanks
Which pulseaudio version are you using? Did you try current git or PA 
13.99? There
have been quite a few changes in the RAOP code since 13.0. If that does 
not work,
please open an issue at 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues

Regards
             Georg