I am trying to follow the setup guideline for the airplay speaker project (https://docs.onion.io/omega2-project-book-vol1/airplay-audio-receiver.html) but can't seem to work anymore.

So I successfully set it up on a different wifi network once, but then when I tried to use it somewhere else it stopped working. I knew I need to change the wifi setup, which I did too. I kinda wanted to get it down quickly so I thought I will just reformat it and then try to redo every step again, but then I couldn't make it work again.

When I started the service at the last step with shairport-sync -d , I couldn't see it on my iPhone. So first I checked if the daemon is running with ps | grep shair which showed it runs:

1887 root      4360 S    /usr/bin/shairport-sync -c /var/etc/shairport-sync-shairport_sync.conf                                                          
2029 root      1216 S    grep shair

Then I checked the following too: shairport-sync -v

alsa output device name is "default".
Version: "3.1.6-mbedTLS-tinysvcmdns-ALSA-metadata-sysconfdir:/etc"
statistics_requester status is 0.
daemon status is 0.
deamon pid file is "/var/run/shairport-sync/shairport-sync.pid".
rtsp listening port is 5000.
udp base port is 6001.
udp port range is 100.
player name is "Omega-AB33".
backend is "(null)".
on-start action is "(null)".
on-stop action is "(null)".
wait-cmd status is 0.
on-start returns output is 0.
mdns backend "(null)".
stuffing option is "0" (0-basic, 1-soxr).
resync time is 0.050000 seconds.
allow a session to be interrupted: 0.
busy timeout time is 120.
drift tolerance is 0.001995 seconds.
password is "(null)".
ignore_volume_control is 0.
volume_max_db is not set
playback_mode is 0 (0-stereo, 1-mono, 1-reverse_stereo, 2-both_left, 3-both_right).
disable_synchronization is 0.
use_mmap_if_available is 1.
output_rate is 44100.
output_format is 3 (0-unknown, 1-S8, 2-U8, 3-S16, 4-S24, 5-S24_3LE, 6-S24_3BE, 7-S32).                                                                    
audio backend desired buffer length is 0.150000 seconds.                                                                                                  
audio backend latency offset is 0.000000 seconds.                                                                                                         
audio backend silence lead-in time is -1.000000 seconds. A value -1.0 means use the default.                                                              
volume range in dB (zero means use the range specified by the mixer): 0.                                                                                  
zeroconf regtype is "_raop._tcp".                                                                                                                         
decoders_supported field is 1.                                                                                                                            
use_apple_decoder is 0.                                                                                                                                   
alsa_use_playback_switch_for_mute is 0.                                                                                                                   
no special mdns service interface was requested.                                                                                                          
configuration file name "/etc/shairport-sync.conf" resolves to "/etc/shairport-sync.conf".                                                                
metadata enabled is 0.                                                                                                                                    
metadata pipename is "(null)".                                                                                                                            
metadata socket address is "(null)" port 0.                                                                                                               
metadata socket packet size is "500".                                                                                                                     
get-coverart is 0.                                                                                                                                        
loudness is 0.                                                                                                                                            
loudness reference level is -20.000000                                                                                                                    
Successful Startup                                                                                                                                        
Unable to listen on IPv4 port 5000. The error is: "Address in use".                                                                                       
Unable to listen on IPv6 port 5000. The error is: "Address in use".                                                                                       
fatal error: Could not establish a service on port 5000 -- program terminating. Is another instance of Shairport Sync running on this device?             
Request to shut down all rtsp conversation threads                                                                                                        
asking playing threads to stop

So I could see there was some issues and couldn't start properly and has to do with port 5000. Then I wanted to check if something else maybe running on port 5000, so I did: netstat -nlp, which resulted the following:

Active Internet connections (only servers)                                                                                                                
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name                                                          
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5000            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1887/shairport-sync                                                       
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4200            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1777/shellinaboxd                                                         
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1294/uhttpd                                                               
tcp        0      0 192.168.100.128:53      0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                              
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                              
tcp        0      0 192.168.3.1:53          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                              
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1258/dropbear                                                             
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:1883            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1589/mosquitto                                                            
tcp        0      0 :::5000                 :::*                    LISTEN      1887/shairport-sync                                                       
tcp        0      0 :::9001                 :::*                    LISTEN      1589/mosquitto                                                            
tcp        0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      1294/uhttpd                                                               
tcp        0      0 ::1:53                  :::*                    LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                              
tcp        0      0 fe80::42a3:6bff:fec0:ab35:53 :::*                    LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                         
tcp        0      0 fe80::42a3:6bff:fec0:ab33:53 :::*                    LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                         
tcp        0      0 fd1d:48c4:7633::1:53    :::*                    LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                              
tcp        0      0 fe80::42a3:6bff:fec0:ab33:53 :::*                    LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                         
tcp        0      0 fe80::42a3:6bff:fec0:ab34:53 :::*                    LISTEN      1836/dnsmasq                                                         
tcp        0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      1258/dropbear                                                             
udp        0      0 192.168.100.128:53      0.0.0.0:*                           1836/dnsmasq                                                              
udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53            0.0.0.0:*                           1836/dnsmasq                                                              
udp        0      0 192.168.3.1:53          0.0.0.0:*                           1836/dnsmasq                                                              
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:67              0.0.0.0:*                           1836/dnsmasq                                                              
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5353            0.0.0.0:*                           1887/shairport-sync                                                       
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5353            0.0.0.0:*                           1443/avahi-daemon:                                                        
udp        0      0 :::547                  :::*                                1194/odhcpd                                                               
udp        0      0 ::1:53                  :::*                                1836/dnsmasq                                                              
udp        0      0 fe80::42a3:6bff:fec0:ab35:53 :::*                                1836/dnsmasq                                                         
udp        0      0 fe80::42a3:6bff:fec0:ab33:53 :::*                                1836/dnsmasq                                                         
udp        0      0 fd1d:48c4:7633::1:53    :::*                                1836/dnsmasq                                                              
udp        0      0 fe80::42a3:6bff:fec0:ab33:53 :::*                                1836/dnsmasq                                                         
udp        0      0 fe80::42a3:6bff:fec0:ab34:53 :::*                                1836/dnsmasq                                                         
udp        0      0 :::5353                 :::*                                1443/avahi-daemon:                                                        
raw        0      0 ::%1:58                 ::%4460556:*            58          1194/odhcpd                                                               
raw        0      0 ::%1:58                 ::%4460556:*            58          1194/odhcpd     

I really don't know what is going on and why is it not deploying properly.

I am using an Omega2 with an Expansion Dock.

I also edited the config file at /etc/config/shairport-sync like :

# Use OpenWrt UCI config
config shairport-sync 'shairport_sync'
        option enabled '1'
        option respawn '1'
        ...
        option name 'Shairport-Sync-%v-%h'
        option password ''
        ...
        option mdns_backend 'tinysvcmdns' # avahi/external-avahi/dns-sd/external-dns-sd/tinysvcmdns

Does anyone have some ideas or suggestions how can I resolve the issue with port 5000? I tried to google it, but nothing useful came up.

Hey! @crispyoz I am using the expansion dock. The dock works just fine with my other Omega2 I have.

Hi there,

I am in need for some help to actually be able to connect to my Omega2+.

I took my dear Omega2+ from the shelf and wanted to use it for some IoT side project. However, I ran into some weird issues. So when I tried to start the Omega2+ I had connected a power cable through the micro USB port, and had switched it on. The LED on the Omega turned on and stayed like that without any blinking. Nothing shows up on the available network window so I am assuming it failed at the booting stage.

So I started to read into it a bit to try to find some solutions and what came up most of the time to reinstall OS/bootloader is to connect the omega via Serial Terminal. So as you might imagine at this point, I could not even do that. I am trying to connect it to a windows 10 PC. Downloaded the driver for the serial communication from the onion doc page ( https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/connecting-to-the-omega-terminal.html#connecting-via-serial-windows , Silicon Labs CP2102 driver for Windows) which seemed like was installed just fine, but then nothing shows up on the device manager.

So at this point I am not sure how can I unbrick this little omega as I can't connect it to my computer to flash it.

I also tried holding on the RESET button for 10 seconds after switched it on, tried using different ports on the PC, used different USB cables, also tried to hold onto the RESET button before switching it on while keep holding the RESET button. I tried to connect it to a MacOS as well.... but nada. Nothing worked.

Any help how can I install Silicon Labs CP2102 driver for Windows 10 successfully or if there is any other way to factory reset the Omega2+ without serial connection?

Many thanks!