Airplay (audio) fails after restarting kodi

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Hi,
when I enable airplay in Kodi it works fine, actually works very well. I can send audio from an iphone, ipad and mac.
But everytime that I reboot the raspberry airplay fails, I can’t connect from any device. To make it working again I have to go to settings => Services => Airplay: disable and enable it. Then it works again.

When it fails the effect is that it is visible in the airplay menu of the iphone/ipad/mac, I can select it, but I get an error: “unable to connect”.
Same effect with the 3 apple devices. All connected to the same wifi.

It’s Kodi 19.4 on a raspberry 4 (OMSC).
In kodi I have the option “Enable airplay videos and pictures” disabled in the airplay settings.

I have enabled the logs and watched it from a remote terminal with ‘tail -f’ while I try to connect. When it fails to connect nothing is shown in the logs, like it’s not receiving any connection request. So, there is nothing in the logs.
When I disable/enable airplay in kodi, it works again, and then I can see in the logs the process of connecting, sending the song picture, etc.

I have also a Marantz AVR with airplay enabled that works always fine, with the same apple devices sending the audio.

Any hint would be appreciated.
Thank you!

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Is the IP address of your RPi changing when you reboot? I just did a quick test on a RPi 4 streaming from an iPhone and when I rebooted the Pi my phone said the device was disconnected and switched back to playing on my phone. As soon as the Pi rebooted I selected it on my phone again and it immediately started streaming to Kodi again.

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No, I have the IP of the RPi fix in the router dhcp, it’s always the same.
In your case it works as I would expect. I have tried to change some settings like uPnP, but unsuccesfully.

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uPnP is unrelated to Airplay so those settings wouldn’t make a difference. I’m at a loss for ideas of what could be going on.

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Make sure the “wait for network” is enabled in the osmc settings. The airplay service otherwise starts without a proper IP address and that causes the issues you experience.

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That’s spot on! You are right, that solved the problem.
I enabled it in: My OSMC → Network → wired → wait for network.

The thing is that this parameter is in both sections: wired and wireless. But is the same parameter, if you enable it in one place gets enabled in the other one also.
Time ago I changed from wireless to wired, maybe then I disabled it by mistake.
Thank you!