Error on Service Start Failed to connect to Pulse

[mattfox27]

Triying to setup the autostart service on RPI

I get this error

Mar 10 19:43:05 airband rtl_airband[1717]: pulse: 192.168.7.155: connection failed: Connection refused
No matter what I do I cannot get it to work, seems to work fine when I start from a command line

[firefighter76]

I had the same error message and was able to fix it by "waiting". After 10 seconds, RTLSDR-Airband tried to connect to the Pulse server again and then the connection worked. The problem occurred for me after an upgrade to Debian Bookworm (with pipewire).

[gabeschine]

@mattfox27 have you been able to make progress on this issue? Thanks for your patience.

[firefighter76]

I don't use the autostart (systemd/service), but I could imagine that the following should be in the file rtl_airband.service under [Unit]:

After=network.target pipewire-pulse.target pipewire.target
Wanted=network.target pipewire-pulse.target pipewire.target

[mattfox27]

@mattfox27 have you been able to make progress on this issue? Thanks for your patience.

No I never got any further

[gabeschine]

@mattfox27 have you been able to make progress on this issue? Thanks for your patience.

No I never got any further

Please give the suggestions from @firefighter76 a try. I'm not seeing evidence so far this is an RTLSDR-Airband issue (could be wrong), but would be great to get you sorted anyway.