Airplay disappears after a while

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Hello everyone,

I am new here…I am happily using Volumio 2 since some months without any bigger problems…but now I cannot find the way to have back Airplay working with my macbook.

I have Volumio 2.502 on a RPB 3+ with HifIberry DAC+ and Kodi plugin correctly working.
But I cannot find the Volumio Airplay device in the list of the audio output under macos system settings…

If I reboot the Volumio there is a short interval of time where I can actually see it, but after a while it disappears without reasons and I cannot recover it.

If I connect ssh inside the RSP3+ and check the airplay service I obtain:

ps -ef | grep vahi avahi 555 1 0 13:14 ? 00:00:04 avahi-daemon: running [volumio.local] avahi 636 555 0 13:14 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper volumio 27755 11886 0 17:25 pts/0 00:00:00 grep vahi

Any suggestions?
Filippo

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I add what aplay -l shows:

aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA] Subdevices: 7/7 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3 Subdevice #4: subdevice #4 Subdevice #5: subdevice #5 Subdevice #6: subdevice #6 card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus], device 0: HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro HiFi pcm512x-hifi-0 [] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 volumio@volumio:~$

If I understand well the card 1, Hifiberry, is not recognised as a valid device ? I cannot understand it…

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I reinstalled Volumio from ground…and again, over wifi the Airplay disappears after some minutes of activity with this result:

sudo systemctl status shairport-sync shairport-sync.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead)

This does not seem to happen with connection over ethernet cable.

By verifying Bonjour services with BonjourBrowser, Airplay indeed disappears…

It seems a Bonjour problem or a power-save setting that deactivate this service or put in standby the wifi…
others with similar problem: https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/issues/512

Could you give me some suggestions ? I am running out of ideas…

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I would say thank you for the support and accelerating the learning curve… :laughing: