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Hi
I am trying to get the Max2Play „squeezebox touch bundle“ with Digi+ Pro soundcard to work. But it won’t play.
Everything looks right when I start up the device. I can connect to my LMS server, browse my music collection and also browse in for example Spotify. But when I try to play something (local or radio), it’s getting a bit weird. Seen from LMS‘ browser interface everything looks right. The progress-bar moves along looking like the device is playing. So seen from LMS it looks like the device is playing. When looking at the device’s screen it also first looks like it starts playing (it shows track metadata, albumart and playbutton changes to a pause-button), however the progress bar doesn’t move on the device, and I get no signal to my DAC/AMP (have tried both optical and RCA). So it seems the device is aware it’s not really playing anything.
I have never done a Raspberry project before, I am not familiar with electronics (got a friend to put it together and do the soldering), and actually not a very experienced with Linux either. But hope I will be able to get it to work anyway. I simply wanted one more SBTouch(-like) player for my setup:-)
The first problem is that I’m unsure if it is a configuration-problem or if we have put it together in a wrong way. We had some problems finding out where to connect the power cables between soundcard and the touch display.
We looked at the instructions on http://www.instructables.com/id/High-End-Sound-with-7-Inch-Touchscreen-Control-Bas/?ALLSTEPS when putting it together, however this shows how to set it up with a HiFiBerry DAC+. We were not able to find a more specific guide for the HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro soundcard and was unsure which pins we were intended to use when connecting power between soundcard and display. In the end we soldered the cables to the soundcard’s pin header P3 as shown on photo.
When the device is turned on I see light from a little diode on the raspberry, but no light anywhere on the soundcard. But I don’t know if there’s suppose to be?
Next to the Max2Play software configuration. Looking at the instructions I thought I should do a lot of configuration, and starting to touch a lot of things after booting up on the included microSD. But slowly realizing that pretty much everything was already prepared in the microSD I got in the bundle. I don’t THINK I did much more than run an update on various components. But now that it doesn’t work, an annoying doubt sneaks into my mind. I should of course have taken a backup of the SDcard before I started. But of course, didn’t think about that until afterwards…
Some settings:
Your installed HiFiBerry Card: Hifi Berry Digi/Digi+ (there’s no specific Digi+ Pro option)
Status: Squeezelite is running with processID 870
soundcard: sysdefault – snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi …Status: Jivelite is running with processID 1246
Raspberry Settings – detected Raspberry PI 3
Hifi Berry Digi/Digi+ (again, no specific Digi+ Pro option)Set Audio Output on Raspberry PI
Default (use HDMI if plugged)Anyone who can help?…
Hi Ronald
I got a warning saying something was wrong with my sd-card when inserting it into my Windows PC, and was encouraged to run a check of it. I chose to ignore it, I don’t know if there’s something special about how it is formated for the raspberry pi? Was still able to read content though, including config.txt which did have the dtoverlay line in this block:
# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835) dtparam=audio=on gpu_mem=128 dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi lcd_rotate=2It did however also have the line for onboard sound included which the page you link to tells me to remove. So I have now out-commented the dtparam line.
Regarding trying the other stuff you suggests, I think I will continue the path started. At least until I give up 🙂
The kit I purchased should been a proven combi/setup. However documentation is seriously lacking.
The guide we have tells how to setup with a HiFiBerry DAC+ light. For powering the guide shows a setup like this:
explaning the setup with this comment:
Since the two peripheries, screen and sound card, both need a lot of juice to run properly, we need to give the sound card an additional power source in the form of the 5 volt connector on the touchscreen. However we cannot connect the two yet since the connectors on the sound card are only for the Raspberry Pi.
That is why we need to solder a little line of five connectors onto the top of our sound card. We just need two connections for the power supply, the first and third hole, so we only need to solder in two places. Once those two are rightly connected and sit strong on the sound card, we need to bend the connectors a little in order to not have them stick out in our case.
Now that this new ridge is added and conformed to the rest of the system, we just need to connect the two cables and all the hardware is in place.As you see on the photos of my setup (first post and just below here) we have also added the line of five connectors on my Digi+ Pro card, but were unsure which pins was correct to connect on the Digi+ Pro card, since layout seems very different from the DAC+. So we ended out with alternative way shown on photo in first post.
What we really miss is some documentation on the Digi+ Pro card, especially the group called P6. But we haven’t been able to find it anywhere.
Our alternatively approach came from this page:
https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/articles/213227645-Digi-Pro-power-separately-from-the-Raspberry-Pi
The page tells you how you can power the digital part of the board independently. I guess we assumed that you can also power the whole board from P3 if you just leave the resistor R3 where it is. But that assumption might be wrong?…Hi Ronald
I got a warning saying something was wrong with my sd-card when inserting it into my Windows PC, and was encouraged to run a check of it. I chose to ignore it, I don’t know if there’s something special about how it is formated for the raspberry pi? Was still able to read content though, including config.txt which did have the dtoverlay line in this block:
# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835) dtparam=audio=on gpu_mem=128 dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi lcd_rotate=2It did however also have the line for onboard sound included which the page you link to tells me to remove. So I have now out-commented the dtparam line.
The change does not seem to do any harm, but still no life from soundcard.
Regarding trying the other stuff you suggests, I think I will continue the path started. At least until I give up 🙂
The kit I purchased should been a proven combi/setup. However documentation is seriously lacking.
The guide we have only tells how to setup with a HiFiBerry DAC+ light (not for my Digi+ Pro). For powering DAC+ the guide shows a setup like this:explaning the setup with this comment:
Since the two peripheries, screen and sound card, both need a lot of juice to run properly, we need to give the sound card an additional power source in the form of the 5 volt connector on the touchscreen. However we cannot connect the two yet since the connectors on the sound card are only for the Raspberry Pi.
That is why we need to solder a little line of five connectors onto the top of our sound card. We just need two connections for the power supply, the first and third hole, so we only need to solder in two places. Once those two are rightly connected and sit strong on the sound card, we need to bend the connectors a little in order to not have them stick out in our case.
Now that this new ridge is added and conformed to the rest of the system, we just need to connect the two cables and all the hardware is in place.As you see on the photos of my setup (first post and just below here) we have also added the line of five connectors on my Digi+ Pro card, but were unsure which pins was correct to connect on the Digi+ Pro card, since layout seems very different from the DAC+. So we ended out with alternative way shown on photo in first post.
What we really miss is some documentation on the Digi+ Pro card, especially the group called P6. But we haven’t been able to find it anywhere.
Our alternatively approach came from this page:
https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/articles/213227645-Digi-Pro-power-separately-from-the-Raspberry-Pi
The page tells you how you can power the digital part of the board independently. I guess we assumed that you can also power the whole board from P3 if you just leave the resistor R3 where it is. But that assumption might be wrong?…
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