Force a reconnect

[yaksplat 63]

If the server disconnects, and the pi is headless, is there any way to force a reconnect without logging in?  Or are you better off just rebooting the pi if there's no session found?

[Luke 40118]

You should be able to just leave the app as it is without doing anything.

[yaksplat 63]

So far that's not working.  It vanishes from the active session list.  I may end up just doing a session query on some interval and then sending a reboot if it comes back with an empty session list for that device.

Edited December 12, 2020 by yaksplat

[Luke 40118]

Ok so yes if you want to remote control it, then you will need to intervene in order to re-establish the connection required for that.

[yaksplat 63]

Turns out that if you do a Get on the Session, it forces a reconnect and the Pi appears as an active client again.  If it's done before each POST to play then the post command causes the audio to play immediately.

[yaksplat 63]

Put this in another thread, but it fits better here, and for searching reasons as well

Occasionally Theater will not play back.  The session is still there, you can do a post to play a song, but it will only give out a droning hum with no proper response.  At this point a reboot is the only thing that fixes the issue.  

[Luke 40118]

I would try 3.0.14 and see if that's any different. thanks.

[yaksplat 63]

Is there a good way to force an update to theater over ssh?

 

[Luke 40118]

You just install the same way you did originally, over the top of your existing version.

[yaksplat 63]

3.0.14 will still eventually stop responding as well.

[Luke 40118]

Ok we'll take a look at it. Thanks.