Snapclient service does not start

[tehsquid]

Hello,

I am having some trouble with snapclient on a 24.04.1 LTS system. Snapserver seems to run correctly and I can connect to the web interface successfully. Running the snapclient command from the terminal shows the client connecting to the server successfully as well. However, trying to run snapclient as a service outputs the following error:

snapclient[391987]: (Snapclient) Version 0.31.0, revision cf2be07
snapclient[391987]: (Avahi) (Browser) NEW: service 'Snapcast' of type '_snapcast._tcp' in domain 'local'
snapclient[391987]: (Avahi) (Browser) NEW: service 'Snapcast' of type '_snapcast._tcp' in domain 'local'
snapclient[391987]: (Avahi) (Browser) NEW: service 'Snapcast' of type '_snapcast._tcp' in domain 'local'
snapclient[391987]: (Avahi) (Browser) NEW: service 'Snapcast' of type '_snapcast._tcp' in domain 'local'
snapclient[391987]: (Avahi) (Browser) CACHE_EXHAUSTED
snapclient[391987]: (Avahi) Service 'Snapcast' of type '_snapcast._tcp' in domain 'local':
snapclient[391987]: (Avahi) krieger.local:1704 (172.18.0.1)
snapclient[391987]: (Controller) Found server 172.18.0.1:1704
snapclient[391987]: (Connection) Resolving host IP for: 172.18.0.1
snapclient[391987]: (Connection) Connecting to 172.18.0.1:1704
snapclient[391987]: (Connection) Connected to 172.18.0.1
snapclient[391987]: (Connection) My MAC: "60:45:cb:7f:ba:1f", socket: 9
snapclient[391987]: (Controller) ServerSettings - buffer: 1000, latency: 0, volume: 100, muted: 0
snapclient[391987]: (Controller) Codec: flac, sampleformat: 48000:16:2
snapclient[391987]: (Player) Player name: alsa, device: default, description: Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server), idx: 2, sharing mode: uns>
snapclient[391987]: (Player) Mixer mode: software, parameters:
snapclient[391987]: (Player) Sampleformat: 48000:16:2, stream: 48000:16:2
snapclient[391987]: (Alsa) Using default buffer_time: 80 ms, default fragments: 4
snapclient[391987]: (Alsa) Exception: Can't open default, error: Host is down, code: -112
snapclient[391987]: (Snapclient) Exception: Can't open default, error: Host is down
snapclient[391987]: (Snapclient) Snapclient terminated.
systemd[1]: snapclient.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: snapclient.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.atus=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: snapclient.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I found this thread and tried some of the fixes in the linked comment (updated pulse config to allow connections from/to 127.0.0.1) , but didn't have any success.

I believe the error occurring only when running as a service indicates an issue with snapcast and the other audio services not all running as system services but instead as user services, however, I am not sure how to resolve.

Would appreciate any other ideas for things I can try to get this running.

[tehsquid]

I fixed this myself by converting to a user service. Service looks like the following:

[Unit]
Description=Snapcast client
Documentation=man:snapclient(1)
Wants=avahi-daemon.service
Wants=snapserver.service
After=network-online.target time-sync.target sound.target avahi-daemon.service

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/snapclient
ExecStart=/usr/bin/snapclient --logsink=system $SNAPCLIENT_OPTS
#User=snapclient
#Group=snapclient
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
#WantedBy=multi-user.target
WantedBy=default.target

Used the following for directions:
https://blog.victormendonca.com/2018/05/14/creating-a-simple-systemd-user-service/