Running OSMC (Kodi 16.1) on a raspberry Pi 3 and I am getting consistent WIFI drops that require me to manually select my preconfigured network to reconnect. I usually don’t use the WIFI all that much except for Youtube, so I am not sure if the issue is hardware/OS related or Youtube related.
I have my log, but not sure how to attach.
Upload logs using grab=logs -A and provide the URL.
But you may want first check your wifi signal. You can install wavemon with sudo apt-get install wavemon to see the signal quality over time
Not familar with grab=logs -A
I can check wifi signal, but never had issue prior to 16.1 update.
Which was 8 months ago
Sure, However when I updated to 16.1 recently it nuked the whole setup which required me to completely rebuild my media center. I have been a little leery of frequent updating until I get a handle on how this hardware and software work.
As you are using NOOBS does the wifi work stable on the other OS?
The logs show many disconnects and rekeying. Really suggest to check signal strength with Wavemon.
To be honest, I never run any other OSs. Its connected to my TV purely as a media center.
Not really sure which metric to key on with Wavemon output, but
link quality73-77%
signal level -56-59dBm
Then I suggest next time you do a reinstall you go for a plain OSMC install instead of NOOBS
Does it stay that way? You can see graph with F2.
Not the highest values but also not a reason for rekeying.
I can certainly do a straight OSMC install next time. I’m trying to clean my library so it reloads better. Will make recovery much easier.
Any other ideas on rekeying? Could it be my router?
I have similar issues with a new osmc installation:
Log:
http://paste.osmc.io/sudehukado
Speed drops under 15Mbit/s in local network. There seems to be a problem with the wifi driver. This also happsn with an external usb device…
My intervall is 3600
I seem to have the same issues the OP is having.
I’ve updated to the OSMC December 2016 version yesterday, since then I have seen already multiple times that Kodi/OSMC/rPi3 is not connected to my WiFi network anymore. Since that is the only way to interact with it (using Yatse) I left the system page open so it displays the wifi network data (i.e. IP address). Checked my router and indeed when Yatse says the device is offline, the rPi entry (static IP address configured) is not in the client list anymore even though the pi seems to be convinced it still is connected to the wifi.
Please note that I have never in the 1+ year of using OSMC experienced these dropouts, the only way to restore the connection is by pulling out the USB power and plugging it back in (I do not have any USB keyboards laying around).
Could this be a bug introduced in any of the OSMC versions after October 2016? Up to yesterday I was using that version and the wifi worked fine without any issues.
Is there any debug logging I can report to figure out what is causing this?
I can confirm that this was the same MO for me. Was fine prior to November update.
There have been no changes to WiFi (ConnMan and kernel) in the last update of OSMC.
If you believe that there are issues with the December version, it would be interesting if someone could download the November version and compare. Then we may have some clues.
Hey Sam
Is there a way to roll back to an earlier version or do you mean to install the oct/nov version of OSMC from scratch?
Any way I could do this without losing any data/prefs?
I’d like to add to my previous post that the wifi stops working fairly quickly, sometimes after a couple of minutes (let’s say 5) and sometimes it seems a little longer. I also suspect that that timing might depend on the traffic over the interface, not interacting will keep it alive longer than downloading a file (e.g. through Yatse’s offline media function).
Thanks
Yes you would need to take an older image from the Download page and install that.
Suggest to do that on a second SD card then you don’t have to worry about your current installation and data.
Alright, I’ll try first with the October release again to see if that one keeps its connection.
First of all though I’m going to try with an external wifi dongle I have laying around (that cheap popular one from DealExtreme). See if using another interface has any effect. Any special things I would have to do to make it work with the external wifi dongle rather than the pi3’s internal chip?