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This was a little problematic at first. Part of my shift over to OPNSense was that I bricked my mesh WiFi when attempting to put it into AP mode. So I had to scramble around to get a WiFi AP. Initially it was upstairs and connected to a swtich that was connected to the homelab in the basement through a Powerline AV. The Pi0's dropped out a lot.

My house is too old for Cat5 in the walls, but does have some coax for cable TV. So I got some MoCa adapters and a second WiFi AP and sorted the WiFi out. After that, no WiFi problems with the streaming. I think the Powerline AV was just too unstable for the SnapCast.

There still are some occasional brief outages, and from what I can see this is caused by buffer overflows or something of that ilk with the SnapCast client software. I've adjusted the parameters as much as I can, and it seems pretty stable. I'll notice a 1 or 2 second outage somewhere in the house every day or so.

Last week the SnapCast in the bathroom was glitching a lot, so I rebooted it and it's been stable ever since. The one in the front room, which is literally 6" from the WiFi AP has never glitched at all, and it's been running for about 3 months now.

I have a section in one of the articles where I talk about recovering from glitches that halt the Mopidy stream itself. In those cases, the Mopidy service is still running, but stops streaming. Using the REST API you can get it running again, so I wrote a cron job that checks every 3 minutes and restarts the stream if required.

I just came back from a 3 week vacation and after 2 weeks the Mopidy service itself crashed. I was getting Gotify notifications every 3 minutes from that cron job as it attempted to restart the stream. If since modified the Mopidy service to restart if it crashes, but it could be months before that ever happens.