Since about several month I have issues with network on my 4 max2play raspberry pi music players. I update them frequently and are up to date. They just don’t get network about 60% times they are turned on. When connected to TV I can see that it is waiting to start some network service. In result it don’t have network. Sometimes I have to restart it several times to get IP.
One of them, which is connected thru WIFI have same problem.
To the one’s connected to the network with cable I added „allow-hotplug eth0“ which seems to fix the issue for now. But still the wireless one have problems. Additionally, even if it is connected and the lose connection, it won’t connect again.
Could you perhaps try fixing the connection and IP on your router’s interface. The WiFi interface of Max2Play acts like any other, simple scan, connect with SSID and password and stay connected.