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8. Februar 2018 at 21:15 #33924
Hello Marc,
What are your experience with the Beocreate? I have some B&O CX100 speakers but is it worth the money to make them active at such a high price? The Beocreate has a pre-defined DSP program for this speaker. In fact, you need two Beocreate devices with two RaspberryPi’s to connect the 6 speakers (3×2) and you can connect them to each other by a Toslink connection.
So, to get all the functionality it costs nearly 500 euro! My problem is that the original CX100 speakers aren’t exactly high-end speakers but very moderate one’s and nearly 15 years old. Are they worth such an high investment? I hope you can confirm that the Beoacreate is a nice piece of desgn bij Hifiberry and it’s worth all his money!
But I’m in doubt. Isn’t a Hifiberry Amp+ (or any other amp mentioned in the Max2play webstore) not a far better idea for my old CX100 speakers?
Hope to hear from your experience.
With regards,
Ronald
4. Juni 2017 at 20:44 #29230Just install Picoreplayer whithout M2P.
M2P is having too much overload and too much options
18. April 2017 at 0:40 #28297Hello StigN, there’s really no much documentation needed for using a Hifiberry DAC in combination with a 7″ display. Choose your wanted player (OpenElec, Picoreplayer, Max2Play) and burn an image. Your config.txt file must contain the dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi and that’s it. Don’t remove any resistor! Your original RaspberryPi power supply is enough to feed.
The ledlight of a hifiberry starts burning when you use it for audio output.
I have my powersupply connected directly on the 7″display. Then it’s powered like your design directly on the Hifiberry DAC. I use a PicorePlayer image with Jivelite and a squeezbox server (very easy to install with picoreplayer.local on your browser and an ethernet connection on the Raspberry Pi).
If it doesn’t work just start again with a new image!
17. April 2017 at 16:56 #28289How to ad this link? https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-28-inch-resistive-touchscreen-display-raspberry-pi/easy-install
17. April 2017 at 16:52 #28286I have the same problem here with a Hifiberry Amp and the Max2play Adafruit 2,8″ touchscreen installation, after step 4 my sound is also gone. I can’t get it to live anymore. A fresh installation without Max2play with this link
works fine. Perhaps it’s a Max2play bug?Regards,
Ronald
17. April 2017 at 9:07 #28281Try the installer from hifiberry.com and choose the audioplayer option. The mainpower should be in the 7″ display connector!
Or try to install another mediaplayer like picoreplayer from https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home and choose your card.
Max2play is more complicated than it looks like because you have a lot of options.
Last tip: read the config.txt file from your SD card on your PC with Wordpad and look for the digi dtoverlay line. If it’s missing, your card won’t work. See
https://www.hifiberry.com/build/documentation/configuring-linux-3-18-x/Regards
Ronald
19. Oktober 2016 at 10:17 #23447I mean the 5V of the 2,5 HD of the USB connector
19. Oktober 2016 at 10:14 #23446I’v the same hardware. The Raspberry is very critical on power consumption from the USBports so I feed my 2.5 harddisk (0.95 A) separate with a 1A powerregulator (TSR 1-2450). You can connect the regulator + en – parallel on the amp and the other + (5V) goes to the 5V display pin. The – you already use. Be aware of the little rainbow in the right corner but this can be switches off but I do not know. With m2p there is option for this.
Regards Ronald
22. Mai 2016 at 13:10 #20203Hello Dirk, the addon you are asking for, is already included in Kodi. If you connect a USB CD-Rom drive a new tab will pop-up. You can choose to rip and save or play
See also https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/205951525-Presenting-the-HifiBerry-Mini for my example, build in an old Mac Mini.
Ronald
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