RPi as pulseaudio server (tcp sink) configured for receiving audio from computers on the over the network.
Works (partially), but when another computer is turned on, and has Avahi-discovery of pulseaudio enabled - the sound on the RPi stops.
The first computer ("hostname1") is connected over wired ethernet - and the 2nd computer "hostname2" is connected wireless.
Pulseaudio on the RPi server says:
After that it outputs this - and just hangs:I: [pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Freeing input 1 "bcm2835 ALSA for usename@hostname2"
I: [pulseaudio] client.c: Freed 3 "pulseaudio"
I: [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Connection died.
D: [alsa-sink-bcm2835 ALSA] alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 131072 bytes.
D: [alsa-sink-bcm2835 ALSA] alsa-sink.c: Limited to 5512 bytes.
D: [alsa-sink-bcm2835 ALSA] alsa-sink.c: before: 1378
D: [alsa-sink-bcm2835 ALSA] alsa-sink.c: after: 1378
D: [alsa-sink-bcm2835 ALSA] alsa-sink.c: Rewound 5512 bytes.
D: [alsa-sink-bcm2835 ALSA] sink.c: Processing rewind...
D: [alsa-sink-bcm2835 ALSA] sink-input.c: Have to rewind 5512 bytes on render memblockq.
D: [alsa-sink-bcm2835 ALSA] source.c: Processing rewind...
[SOLUTION]
There's an interesting thread on Gentoo forums describing exactly the same setup and symptoms.
It says:
Will investigate this.I figured it out.
I found an article saying that on some routers when WAN Ping respond is enabled then VPN wont work, so i was like ok lets try this...and POP it works.
So when pulseaudio does not want to work over wireless then disabling WAN ping might help.
To be continued...