[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio and HomePod / ATV4

[Jerome O'Flaherty]

Georg, 
    I did compile 13.99 on my RPi yesterday and it still happened unfortunately. 13.99 also seems to timeout quicker so I switched back for now to the ‘official’ pulse for RPI which seems to be 12.

Jerome

> On 11 Jun 2020, at 10:40, Georg Chini <georg at chini.tk> wrote:
> 
> 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