Pi 4 was dropping Slinger stream every few minutes, now it is rock solid.

[robosmith]

Been using Pi 4 to run Slinger for months with mixed results. Occasionally, it worked very well and could stream for hours without dropping the stream. But most of the time it would drop the stream every few minutes.

Now we've discovered a fix for an energy saving "feature" in the Pi 4 called EEE for the ethernet port, which disrupted the network feed regularly.

Add the following parameter to the config.txt file in the boot directory:

(#) Turn off EEE on Ethernet port
dtparam=eee=off

After implementing this command, Slinger is rock solid for hours almost all the time.