[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio and HomePod / ATV4

[Georg Chini]

On 11.06.20 11:50, Jerome O'Flaherty wrote:
> 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

OK, so as said you should open an issue on Gitlab. I included Christophe 
in the mail because
he did most of the development on the RAOP code, maybe he can help you.