I’ve set up Mopidy on a Pi Zero W using the latest Raspbian lite image. I was hoping to play audio through Bluetooth using bluealsa. When I run mopidy from the command line as a normal user it works fine, but when I run Mopidy as a service I get crackles, pops, and dorpouts in the audio. The CPU usgae never goes above 25%.
I changed the service file to run Mopidy as the user I log in as, instead of ‘mopidy’ and this has made things significantly better but not entirely. Anybody got any ideas?
I think there is a priority difference when running things as the currently logged in user vs a system account. I can’t now find the article I was looking for on the subject but can you try playing with the cgroup limits that systemd uses when running the service? Also perhaps share the output of top and/or systemd-cgtop. I don’t have any useful experience with bluealsa so I can’t offer anything specific to that.
Thanks for that reply. It looks like there were two things going on - the main one being that the Pi WiFi and Bluetooth interfere with one another. It was that that was causing the noise. There’s now a fix for that, and the noise has gone. I can’t explain why it was worse when running as a service, but further experimentation showed that it wasn’t perfect running from a console either.