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Those are the pi lights. Perhaps the pi itself is faulty.

 

Appreciate the response, Michael. So is there any fix for that?

 

Is the sd card programmed? What OS?

 

I've tried both Volumio and RoPieee on 2 different cards (200gb and 512gb....only had those large sizes lying around).

 

try powering the pi separately without the pi2aes installed and see what kind of status light you get. You should be able to connect to volumio over the web assuming you have ethernet connected.

 

Same thing, just the red light but no ethernet lights or connection. My guess is I need a new pi?

 

EDIT: Figured this one out, I think.....In Volumio I need to select I2S Dac (and any DAC), correct? Assuming so as now it works.
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Sorry, have another unrelated question. On my original unit (the one that works) I've only been able to ever get the USB outputs to work, not the hat. USB works great with Yggdrasil and Mojo, but if I try to use any other output (optical to Mojo, AES/Coax to Yggdrasil) I don't get a signal. Do I need to activate some setting in order for it to switch?

 

change the dac settings to Hifiberry Digi+ Pro

 

Swapped out the pi board and got it to work. Easy enough - appreciate the help!

 

Been having issues trying to install Roon bridge on the latest Volumio.
I registered for a free account and I did log in on my PI4 Volumio but it gives me a very descriptive error message ("MyVolumio Error" ). I can see I am logged in, but I am unable to browse/install any plugin. It keeps telling me to log in and then shows that error...
Anybody got similar issue? Is it because I just created my account and the server needs time to update?

In the past (before my break from DIY Raspberry Pi streamers) I was using Ropieee without issue. Now it seems that after a day or two Ropieee stops working and I need to reflash it all the time, hence why I moved back to Volumio.

Edit: It works from my phone but not from Chrome or Edge on Windows 10 Enterprise. Go figure.

 

See if it works when you use its numeric IP address (in the form of http://192.168.11.111). Also try volumio.lan instead of volumio.local. If either of them work, it involves how your router or Windows is mapping addresses in the local network.

I haven't seen this issue mentioned in the RoPieee forum (on Roon Community Forum), and RoPieee has been very stable and solid for me. I would guess that the problem is caused by something external and not RoPieee itself. Did you try different SD cards?

 

I've had that issue in the past and it was a bad SD card. I've since upgraded to 32GB Sandisk cards in my 3 RPis and they've been stable for well over a year.

 

Hello, new to the forum.
Is there any sound quality penalty or signal degradation when streaming locally from USB pendrive/disk drive/sdcard instead of network? Can a pendrive pollute the power bus at the RPI and affect the PIAES?
I plan to use a RP4 mainly with LibreElec Kodi and play my media locally as well as streaming. I find streaming locally from usb (specially movies) is faster than home network in terms of latency and seeking.

 

Wow, I wish that there were Pi4's available. I managed to fry one of my RopieeeXL'en last month, and didn't really need it, but now I do. Anyone have a secret stash?

 

I use an Nvidia shield with a 2tb external HDD as my music server, and I don't notice any difference between that and having it attached directly to the Pi, although both are connected via Ethernet.

 

Anyone tried a real-time kernel on a custom Pi distro?
I think on a barebones dietpi with just a DLNA server, disable swap, minimum logs and temp files in ram. Could a real time kernel make the PIAES2 stream more clock-wise accurate?

 

The audio data is shifted out by the CPU using clocks from the pi2aes. So there is no need for “more” accurate clocks, since they are pretty much as accurate as can be. not a bad idea in general, just not applicable with the way the pi2aes is designed.

 

Yes, look into symphonic mpd. Clear improvement in sound quality over Volumio, Moode etc. It's a bit more than a realtime kernel but I didn't delve into the technicalities, I just know it sounds excellent.

 

You mean the audio data is buffered by the pi2aes from the CPU so it is not affected by latency from the playback software/mixer? Guess rt-kernel is only useful for live low latency recording.. just to make sure

 

The pi2aes does not buffer the data. It simply provides the bit and word clocks the pi then uses to clock out the data to the pi2aes.