I am running mopidy as service on a RPi4 with hifiberry dac. I can access the iris frontend and browse online source such as bandcamp. However, once initiating playback I receive a websocket and pusher error and playback wont start, my connection to mopidy is also lost. Any pointers to what I need…

If you are using the desktop version the “* failed to open vchiq instance” usually means you need to add mopidy to the video group. sudo adduser mopidy video

Thanks for the suggestions Steve, I checked and user mopidy was already listed in the video and audio group. Nevertheless I reran the command in case I overlooked something - and see that there are issues with my locale settings. Could this affect the behaviour of the vchiq instance? sudo adduser…

Are you using the latest desktop version of Raspbian? The one with pulseaudio?

Yes, the release form 2021-03-04: 2021-03-04-raspios-buster-armhf-full.zip

Are there known issues with pulseaudio that I am not aware off? If so, if someone could point me to the relevant documentation? If not, any other ideas what might be the issue here?

Currently we only know about Running as a service — Mopidy 3.1.1-1-gf17acacf documentation Did you do that?

I updated the relevant bits but still not working. The errors have changed though. I can still not play anything, but will be stuck in a forever loop for the first 4 seconds counting on the progress bar for playback - but no actual sound playback. -- Logs begin at Thu 2021-04-22 11:41:24 CEST, end…

Websocket issue - cannot playback but browse from online sources

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