Looking for help - Rasberry Pi - HiFiBerry Digi - Volumio

[ifor]

I had tried with the new SD card and nothing has changed. I will now go and change the name of the AE and reset it.

 

[ifor]

Still no luck!

 

[ifor]

OK. After a lot of faffing about with three different SD cards all with Volumio installed and various connections to the router and getting nowhere, I have put Noobs on one of the cards and taken the Pi back to the sitting position and booted up. Guess what? It now has an IP address and shows up beautifully in Fing. Debian is currently installing.

So, it seems that the problem is Volumio. Any suggestions?

 

[margetti]

OK. After a lot of faffing about with three different SD cards all with Volumio installed and various connections to the router and getting nowhere, I have put Noobs on one of the cards and taken the Pi back to the sitting position and booted up. Guess what? It now has an IP address and shows up beautifully in Fing. Debian is currently installing.

So, it seems that the problem is Volumio. Any suggestions?

Hi ifor... well, well, well, who'd a thunk it?

What version did you download - version 1.2beta from the main website I'm presuming?

I would suggest trying the previous 1.1beta, which you can find here - http://sourceforge.net/projects/volumio/files/Raspberry%20PI/

I see there is a 1.3beta on that page too, but as the main volumio website isn't linking to it I'm guessing its not deemed stable enough yet.

 

[Dave_]

I would try runeaudio instead. Its like volumio but built on Arch instead of Rasbian.

 

[ifor]

I now have a new problem! The Pi froze of shutdown or reboot and now I can't do anything with it. I'm just putting a new version of Noobs back on the card to see whether it'll revive from that.

 

[Dave_]

I'm just putting a new version of Noobs back on the card to see whether it'll revive from that.

The SD is corrupt. A reflash will sort it.

Did you get a new SD card? What PSU are you using for the RPi?

Those are the biggest causes of corruptions.

 

[ifor]

That didn't work. I just have a very colourful TV screen, but nothing is happening on the Pi.

Yes, I got a new SD card.

This is the PSU from the Pi Hut

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Micro-Supply-Charger-Raspberry-Pi/dp/B00AUKR4EU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398440332&sr=8-1&keywords=UK+Micro+USB+Power+Supply+Charger+For+Raspberry+Pi+-+5V+1500mA

Fortunately it is recovering with Noobs on the newest card. I might try Squeezeplug next.

Squeezeplug works. Next I'll try Volumio1.1beta instead of 1.2beta. Two more SD cards arriving today.

i am am now actually listening to music through a combo of Raspberry Pi / HiFiBerry Digi / Squeezeplug - Logitech Music Server - Squeezelite fed by SPDIF to Arcam rDAC. Result!

 

[margetti]

That didn't work. I just have a very colourful TV screen, but nothing is happening on the Pi.

Yes, I got a new SD card.

This is the PSU from the Pi Hut

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Micro-Supply-Charger-Raspberry-Pi/dp/B00AUKR4EU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398440332&sr=8-1&keywords=UK+Micro+USB+Power+Supply+Charger+For+Raspberry+Pi+-+5V+1500mA

Fortunately it is recovering with Noobs on the newest card. I might try Squeezeplug next.

Squeezeplug works. Next I'll try Volumio1.1beta instead of 1.2beta. Two more SD cards arriving today.

i am am now actually listening to music through a combo of Raspberry Pi / HiFiBerry Digi / Squeezeplug - Logitech Music Server - Squeezelite fed by SPDIF to Arcam rDAC. Result!

Great to hear! :dance:

DId you give 1.1beta a try? So strange volumio didn't play ball, whatever the version...

 

[ifor]

DId you give 1.1beta a try? So strange volumio didn't play ball, whatever the version...

Not yet. The SD card is preparing at present. I hope to give it a go this evening.

I haven't got it 100% right with Squeezeplug. I haven't managed to get the Logitech Media Server installed on the Pi to find the music across the network so at present I'm using LMS installed on the iMac.

 

[ifor]

Volumio 1.1beta has loaded in my browser at first attempt! I've just got to work out how to use it and I think there are some configuration bits to do to work with HiFiBerry Digi.

 

[margetti]

:cheer:

If you have problems getting the hifiberry digi to work this thread might help - http://volumio.org/forum/hifiberry-digi-with-beta-t887.html

Saw that the other day but refrained from posting it least it confused matters :?

 

[ifor]

:cheer:

If you have problems getting the hifiberry digi to work this thread might help - http://volumio.org/forum/hifiberry-digi-with-beta-t887.html

Saw that the other day but refrained from posting it least it confused matters :?

i think I've seen that one, but haven't got to the point where I need it yet, but I'm sure I will. My current issue is trying to understand how to point Volumio at the HD connected to my iMac. Can you give me any guidance with this? The Volumio website is spectacularly uninformative for the ignorant like me.

 

[ifor]

I have just installed Volumio 1.3beta and like 1.1beta it acquires and holds an IP address.

I'm still having trouble mounting the shares. This is what I have entered in the web GUI:

Source name: XLD (being one of the music holding folders on the Drobo)

File share protocol: SMB/CIFS (I don't know whether or not this is correct, but the iMac says it connected to at smb://10.x.x.yyy)

IP address: 10.x.x.xxx (being the IP address of the Pi)

Remote directory: Drobo/XLD (Drobo being the name of the external HDD connected to the iMac)

User name: myusername

Password: mypassword

Having saved this the GUI tells me that it is updating the database, but it also has a little red cross and states:

mount: cannot mount block device //10.x.x.xxx/Drobo/XLD read-only.

I have checked the permissions and it is not read-only. Any ideas?

 

[Dave_]

I'm still having trouble mounting the shares. This is what I have entered in the web GUI:

Source name: XLD (being one of the music holding folders on the Drobo)

File share protocol: SMB/CIFS (I don't know whether or not this is correct, but the iMac says it connected to at smb://10.x.x.yyy)

IP address: 10.x.x.xxx (being the IP address of the Pi)

Remote directory: Drobo/XLD (Drobo being the name of the external HDD connected to the iMac)

User name: myusername

Password: mypassword

You're using the wrong IP address. You enter the IP of the share, not the RPis. So the iMacs IP in your case.

 

[ifor]

You're using the wrong IP address. You enter the IP of the share, not the RPis. So the iMacs IP in your case.

How thick can I be? ! I'll try again. Thanks.

 

[ifor]

I've corrected the IP address error, but still get an error message:

Last system mount error
mount: Operation not supported

With volumio1.3beta it works through AirPlay (wired) from iTunes on the iMac. 1.1beta was recognised by iTunes, but there was no output from the HiFiBerry Digi, because 1.1beta doesn't appear to have been configured for HiFiBerry Digi.

 

[ifor]

I'm waiting patiently for guidance from Volumio or Rune Audio. Once it's sorted for one I think it'll be sorted for both and then I will be able to compare the two very similar distributions. Or I could just get myself a NAS and add it to the network, but that's an expense I shouldn't really need.

 

[Dave_]

Where are you stuck, mounting your network share still?

 

[ifor]

Yes. I think it would be straightforward if I had a NAS, but since I don't it's a question of finding out how to mount an HDD attached to the iMac. The Rune developers have said they'll help, but they haven't yet. The Rune Audio forum seems to be a bit more active than the Volumio forum.

 

[margetti]

Don't know enough about mac's to help sorry, but this - http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=68218 - might be of use - it refers to a different linux distro but it does describe the same probelm you're having...

 

[ifor]

Thanks for that, there might be some stuff for me to try.

No help, but probably because I didn't know what I was doing!

i have successfully played through it via AirPlay, but I now seem to have lost coaxial and optical output output from the HiFiBerry Digi.

Ignore that, it's working fine by AirPlay from iTunes. I had reflashed the SD card with Volumio and had forgotten to enable the HiFiBerry Digi function.

 

[ifor]

At long last I seem to have successfully mounted the HDD share that contains my music folder. But, I can't see any music files in the Volumio webUI, so it's not a lot of use yet.

 

[margetti]

Hi, was wondering how things were going... interested to hear what the problem with the share mount was, just out of curiosity.

So you can see the mount when you go to browse the library, but there is no music listed there? And still nothing after a mpd database update? My first question would be to ask what format your music files are? I had problems I think with ALAC - can't remember exactly what the issue was, but took the sledgehammer approach of converting everything to FLAC in the end...

 

[ifor]

Hi, was wondering how things were going... interested to hear what the problem with the share mount was, just out of curiosity.

So you can see the mount when you go to browse the library, but there is no music listed there? And still nothing after a mpd database update? My first question would be to ask what format your music files are? I had problems I think with ALAC - can't remember exactly what the issue was, but took the sledgehammer approach of converting everything to FLAC in the end...

This thread helped. I'm sure I had donne it all at least once before, but hey ho, in eventually worked. If I browse the library I can get down to NAS/Drobo/Music. Within this there are are several other folders (depending on how I have got the music). They are called Amazon MP3, Downloaded Music, FLAC, Rescued from iTunes, Rip, Ripped in iTunes and XLD. Within each of these folders are folders for each Artist and within those are foldrers for each Album.

The vast majority are ALAC, but there are a few AAC, MP3 and FLAC.