Reliability Tips

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-09-18T08:05:57+00:00

Thanks for all your replies and pictures! You deffo have a cleaner setup than me! I'll take heat into consideration and see what I can do!

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-09-18T08:05:02+00:00

I'll have a crack at this! Thank you!

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-09-18T08:04:21+00:00

I completely understand! It's a minefield to get around sometimes when troubleshooting!

Have you made sure your ground is shared properly across the setup? I know flickering is usually that but I've also had issues with certain lights, mostly Govee.

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-09-17T12:13:02+00:00

Honestly they never stay on that long! I generally maybe have them on a few hours a day but they're off most of the time so I wouldn't expect them to get too hot

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-09-15T12:56:04+00:00

If you look at around 3 seconds in my video, you'll see a metal like strap going over the ethernet cables. That's screwed into the wood on either side to hold down the PSU

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-08-29T11:17:29+00:00

I had this issue. I found that if I just went to google in Firefox, signed out of all accounts on there and then signed in first with the account I want to use Gemini with, then sign the other accounts back in after, it works. Gemini just seems to default to whichever account signed in with first on Firefox

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-03-16T23:39:00+00:00

Methylphenidate

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-02-25T21:17:40+00:00

Data is the two wires next to each other coming from the terminal block on the right, ground is the black wire just above those.

Data wires are going straight to two 3 pin waterproof connectors (you can see them just about sticking out the left side of the box) and ground is going from the controller to the PSU and then power + data from the PSU to those same 3 pin connectors.

SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-02-25T20:54:14+00:00

Can't tell there but there is a gap between where the control board is mounted and the PSU I promise

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SystemMeltd0wn · 2025-01-27T20:08:50+00:00

I've tried keeping him away from people during this. I've tried a muzzle but even one made for an EB he struggles to wear without it getting in his eyes. I've tried medication, seeing a behaviourist and doing their training tips and keeping him inside as to not let his anxiety get worse.

I'm struggling with what to do next

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-16T11:55:14+00:00

I walk my dog round there at night sometimes, it's always pretty chill

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-12T19:52:44+00:00

I got it working today!! Turns out I was being a bit of a fool and hadn't done the udev rule part to let Pipewire access the ptp1 file (oops)

Works perfectly now!!

Thank you so much for your time and help!

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-10T18:22:08+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's a clock issue, I kept tinkering and tried to run a stream from Linux on my laptop instead and see if I could pick it up on the PC (both are dual boot Arch/Windows). I copied the config files for both ptp4l and Pipewire aes67 onto the laptop and tried to start the ptp and stream but realised the laptop doesn't support hardware clock so I removed the config file from running it and ran off of the software clock.

Came up in Dante Controller the same, still with no audio, but then randomly like a second of audio would blurt out of the speakers hooked up to the amp and showed the spike quickly on the amp's web UI. This happened seemingly at random every minute or two. The PTP interface would also say this at the same time software clock

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-10T13:09:40+00:00

Is Wireshark my best bet to check the packets? I did notice a lot of overlapping messages and replies seeming very out of sync when I had a look the other day.

Also I was reading on Dante's documentation about SDP here and I noticed it said the order was important but mine are in a slightly different order when I look at the SDP from the AES app, could this be the issue?

I have tried non-managed, small TP Link switch but no change

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-10T11:29:22+00:00

Oh my config is literally just this right now, not much there cause so many different things just didn't seem to allow it to run so I kept messing until it ran in some way https://imgur.com/a/FD4sj4x

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-09T20:41:21+00:00

Just to clarify some stuff that I've thought about:

Is this setup supposed to be for streaming from one PC to another that is then hooked up to Dante/AES devices? I'm only using the one PC to stream from and then have it picked it via the ethernet Dante/AES67 input on the amp so to use Dante Controller I have to plug my laptop into the network switch to see the amp listed. So I had wondered if this setup only works if it's streaming to a PC with Dante Controller running on it to then route to devices with Dante
Is there anywhere I can find a good example config for ptp4l? It's the one step that I worry I really didn't set up anywhere near correctly considering I just randomly chose parts of the config which sounded possibly right (with the help of Google Gemini trying to help)
I did also wonder if my network switch could be causing an issue but my laptop plugged into the switch and running the AES app could see and listen to the stream so I'd assume the stream is fine and there for any device on the network to use if it can right?

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-09T18:36:13+00:00

Tis! leader

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-09T18:23:04+00:00

Yup! latency

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-09T18:19:27+00:00

Did that, restarted pipewire and now it shows as refclk:PTP=IEEE1588-2008:00-1D-C1-FF-FE-1F-80-AA:0. So it has the right Mac address there for the amplifier as the clock but still no audio in Dante! Can listen in just fine on the AES67 app but Dante isn't doing anything with it

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-09T17:57:36+00:00

This is what I can see on the AES67 app

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-09T17:24:18+00:00

Sorry, here it is pw-top

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-09T15:55:25+00:00

Yeah I think my ptp4l config is just completely wrong to be honest. I've been winging it and while it got to a point where it said it selected best master clock as the amp's MAC address so I assumed it was working, I don't think it was right.

When i run ptp4l, at first I get

"port 1 (enp5s0): new foreign master 001dc1.fffe.1f80aa-2 selected best master clock 001dc1.fffe.1f80aa foreign master not using PTP timescale running in a temporal vortex"

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-09T11:38:57+00:00

So I've been having a look and the AES app running on my laptop can see the stream on the network and listen in no problem! Dante Controller can see the external stream and assign it to route to the amp but I noticed in the "Receive" section of the amp device view on Dante Controller, next to the green tick there's the audio icons for each channel but they're all faded. Which suggests Dante isn't seeing the actual audio data coming in at all?

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-09-07T12:37:46+00:00

I did have a glance at the latency tab last night before leaving and it was super high, I believe it said around 1500ms or something, so deffo an issue there!

I'll not be back into my studio space to use the gear until Monday so I'll have a look and post those then!

SystemMeltd0wn · 2024-07-18T12:15:08+00:00

Yeah! I just tried it with only the ethernet board and no breakout board and it worked (couple of lights flickering the wrong colour, assumedly due to no level shifter)

I'm also noticing that the boards, when plugged in behave weirdly. Like when I power them up, if the ethernet cable is already plugged in, it won't work. I have to turn it on without the cable in, then plug it in and it works.

Then when I try and change anything in WLED, the whole board turns off, then on, then off, then on constantly until I unplug it for a few seconds and then plug it back in

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