bubbleupnp serverr homedirectory on raspberry

[Michael Waldor]

bubbleupnp server stores all its runtime files within /home/bubbleupnp. Beware, by default the folder /home is stored on the raspberry's sd card. All IO - especially the proxy buffering - is done there. To protect your sd card for too many write cycles, I propose to move the home directory into some other location. E.g. I use an SSD attached to my raspberry.

Regards, Michael

[Bubblesoft]

The only thing that writes regularly in that folder is the log file (BubbleUPnPServer.log.0). 

Two solutions.

1. disable writing of the log file, editing the systemctl service for it:

systemctl edit bubbleupnpserver

And add these lines

ExecStart=

ExecStart=/opt/bubbleupnpserver/launch.sh -dataDir /home/bubbleupnp -nologstdout -nologfile

2. Or use a different data folder:

cp -r /home/bubbleupnp /some/path/bubbleupnp

chown -R bubbleupnp:bubbleupnp  /some/path/bubbleupnp

systemctl edit bubbleupnpserver

And add these lines

ExecStart=

ExecStart=/opt/bubbleupnpserver/launch.sh -dataDir /some/path/bubbleupnp -nologstdout

[Michael Waldor]

Thanks for your suggestion. But logging is - as far as I can tell - not the main source of IO. All streaming data is stored within subfolder proxytmp, and that counts for many GBs. As I wrote, I've stored bubbleupnp's homedirectory on an attached SSD.

Regards, Michael

[Bubblesoft]

Yup I forgot proxytmp which is only used for Qobuz/TIDAL.

Speaking of which, it may be better if BubbleUPnP Server used the system temp folder for that purpose.

The solution is then to move the data dir which I suppose is what you did.