Available Plugins Empty

[cmbroth]

On a new install of version 2.806, the available plugin list is empty.

Platform: Raspberry pi 4 + HifiBerry Amp2

When updating the plugin list, the plugin manager attempts to grab a json file from following url:
http://plugins.volumio.org/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json

That host redirects to http://plugins.volumio.workers.dev/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json

plugins.volumio.workers.dev resolves to the following addresses:
104.18.33.211
104.18.32.211
172.67.153.54

If 172.67.153.54 is used, the request times out and an error message appears in the volumio logs. Volumio does not retry with one of the other ip address. Below is the output of a wget request.

wget http://plugins.volumio.org/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json
--2020-08-23 12:27:39-- http://plugins.volumio.org/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json
Resolving plugins.volumio.org (plugins.volumio.org)... 192.64.119.194
Connecting to plugins.volumio.org (plugins.volumio.org)|192.64.119.194|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://plugins.volumio.workers.dev/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json [following]
--2020-08-23 12:27:40-- http://plugins.volumio.workers.dev/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json
Resolving plugins.volumio.workers.dev (plugins.volumio.workers.dev)... 172.67.153.54, 104.18.32.211, 104.18.33.211, ...
Connecting to plugins.volumio.workers.dev (plugins.volumio.workers.dev)|172.67.153.54|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to plugins.volumio.workers.dev (plugins.volumio.workers.dev)|104.18.32.211|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20684 (20K) [application/json]
Saving to: ‘plugins.json’

Checking from a different host on another network results in the following:

wget http://plugins.volumio.org/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json
--2020-08-23 17:29:43-- http://plugins.volumio.org/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json
Resolving plugins.volumio.org (plugins.volumio.org)... 192.64.119.194
Connecting to plugins.volumio.org (plugins.volumio.org)|192.64.119.194|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://plugins.volumio.workers.dev/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json [following]
--2020-08-23 17:29:44-- http://plugins.volumio.workers.dev/plugins/volumio/armhf/plugins.json
Resolving plugins.volumio.workers.dev (plugins.volumio.workers.dev)... 172.67.153.54, 104.18.32.211, 104.18.33.211
Connecting to plugins.volumio.workers.dev (plugins.volumio.workers.dev)|172.67.153.54|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20684 (20K) [application/json]
Saving to: ‘plugins.json’

So for some reason, my system is unable to download from 172.67.153.54 while the other two hosts work fine.

Possible improvement:
Update the plugin manager so that additional ip addresses are tried after a time out error.

Thanks,
Chris.

[sikaiser]

Can we somehow bump this? It's still the same in April '21.

Edit: It seems that I was having a different issue. Will document it here for anyone else who comes across it. I am running volumio on a raspberry zero w, which uses Wifi. Apparently there is an issue with the wifi driver that causes it to not set the time and date correctly on the device. This leads to issues with https certificates.

The solution that worked for me (as per https://community.volumio.org/t/solved-unable-to-set-accurate-time-time-zone/6928):

timedatectl set-ntp true
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
sudo reboot