From your logs, it looks like you’re the first person we’ve seen experiencing both of the Spotify-related errors (957, 958) as well as an issue we’ve never seen before, which may require you reaching out to us at support@micro-nova.com to see about a hardware repair
1 . spotifyd, the library we’ve used to implement Spotify Connect support, has been screwed over by Spotify updating their API. We’re currently shopping around for other implementations and seeing what we can implement ourselves, currently librespot has a PR to their own repo that allegedly solves this issue so we’re watching their development closely so we can potentially implement them in the next update.
3 . You can set your default startup volume of spotify by changing the initial_volume parameter in the amplipi-dev/streams/spot_config.toml file to something lower, though that file will get replaced with every update (or at minimum the next update, I’ve been upgrading the updater to preserve user settings lately and provide more options across two PRs 828, 870 ). Further, you can set your maximum outputs as outlined here.
4 . This is a default functionality of our main units, the streamer is unable to do so natively as its streams are tied to its outputs. It seems LMS is able to provide this functionality for you, but would take some tinkering as you’ve discovered.
As for your speakers, I think we may have to do an autopsy: What does your setup look like? The Streamer is meant to be used in conjunction with multiple other audio devices, ideally having the volume controlled by an amplifier or amplified/powered speakers. What amp have you been using? Does it have a control interface, whether analog or software?
I noticed that your speakers have a maximum recommended input of 150W based on the specs, while your amp appears to be set to 200W, as discussed in the other thread, this feels like the source of your issues.
Steven Engelbert
MicroNova Support Coordinator