plugin no longer working after waking from suspend

[AstroKosmoNaut]

I am running volumio with the volspotconnect2 plugin on an Asus eeePC900 netbook, and the latest version is working like a charm with gapless playback.

There is one thing though: I have configured volumio to go into suspend mode using the power button. When waking from suspend, volumio itself works, but the volspotconnect2 plugin isn't visible from other spotify devices on my network.

it seems the plugin either doesn't wake from sleep or doesn't reconnect to the ntework. is there anything i can do to nudge the plugin to wake up, e.g from a script to run on wake.

[AstroKosmoNaut]

it took me a little while, as my nineties UNIX knowledge is quite rusty, but I solved the issue for now. Don't know if it is the proper way to do it, but at least it works.

I have created a script named /lib/systemd/system-sleep/99restartvollibrespot with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

if [ "$2" = "suspend" ] || [ "$2" = "hybrid-sleep" ]; then
case "$1" in
pre) true ;;
post) sleep 1 && killall vollibrespot ;;
esac
fi

as far as I am concerned, this issue can be closed, although the developer(s) may want to incorporate this fix or another one,

[ashthespy]

I would reckon when coming out of suspend, the daemon doesn't behave properly as it doesn't have any reconnect capabilities.

Your solution would work, but I'd suggest restarting the service instead (vollibrespot2volspotconnect2.service)

[AstroKosmoNaut]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but it doesn't work. Listing the services didn't show that service, however it did show a volspotconnect2.service, and using that did the trick. I assume a little typo, or should there be a service named vollibrespot2.service?

For anyone who wants to know, my current script is:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

if [ "$2" = "suspend" ] || [ "$2" = "hybrid-sleep" ]; then
case "$1" in
pre) true ;;
post) sleep 1 && systemctl restart volspotconnect2.service ;;
esac
fi

[ashthespy]

Sorry my bad.. it is indeed volspotconnect2 :doh:

[AstroKosmoNaut]

I noticed that when volumio is playing a track when you put the system to sleep, it will resume in play mode, but without any audio being sent to output. after some experiments I arrived at the following scipt to make volumio stop and start properly:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

if [ "$2" = "suspend" ] || [ "$2" = "hybrid-sleep" ]; then
    case "$1" in
        post)  volumio vstart
                systemctl restart volspotconnect2.service
                break
                ;;
        *) volumio vstop
                sleep 2 ;;
    esac
fi

[ashthespy]

If you stop and start the Volumio service, you don't need to restart volspotconnect2.service as it will be picked up by the main Volumio service anyway..

[AstroKosmoNaut]

Actually I tested both scenarios, and it looked like including the statement works faster. When I have time, i will investigate further.

[ashthespy]

Well, that is true, the VLS daemon will get started only after Volumio is completely booted, and launches all plugins.
Given that the VLS daemon doesn't require Volumio to have started up to play music, your approach would speed things up indeed :-)