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Kodi does not start playing music with hifiberry

Thilo

January 05, 2017 19:34

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Hi together,

when I tell Kodi to play a song it doesn't start.

My configuration:

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B 1 GB RAM, Universal Power Supply 2,5 A 5.1V, Hfiberry DAC+PRO.

OSMC 2016.12-1 (kernel: Linux 4.4.27-5-osmc) + Kodi 16.1

Hifiberry is defined as audio-output-device. if i switch to HDMI/Analogue it starts playing, but I hear nothing because no loudspeaker is plugged into the internal audio device.

I used Log Uploader in "MyOSMC". How can I upload my uploadlog.txt?

The main question is: How to teach the system running?

Thanks to all!

Thilo

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  HiFiBerry team January 05, 2017 20:08

  Hi Thilo,

  uploading your log here won't help. We're not experts of Kodi internals. Is there a problem only with music playback? What about sound from the menus and from movies?
  What is the output when you run the command "aplay -l"?

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Thilo January 05, 2017 20:28

  Hi Daniel, thanks for the fast reaction.

  Nothing, no sound from a video or from a menu.

  osmc@osmc:~$ aplay -l
  -bash: aplay: Kommando nicht gefunden.

  I see 3 LEDs:

  Raspberry: Red is on, green is sometimes flashing

  Hifiberry: green is on for a while, then it's off. Screensaver comes. When I "start" the Music Playing it's on, but the player shows 00:00.

  Thank you for your help.

  Best regards

  Thilo

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  HiFiBerry team January 05, 2017 20:32

  Looks like OSMC does not come with the right tools to debug this. You can try installing alsautils with

  sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

  The LEDs on the DAC+ indicates that the driver is loaded and the hardware is recognized. Unfortunately I can't say why Kodi isn't working. It might be the best to directly contact the OSMC developers. They might have an idea how to debug this.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Frederik January 21, 2017 18:52

  Hello all together,
  
  i got my DAC+Pro today and i use the same Raspberry and the same OSMC/Kodi version as Thilo.
  I got the same problem. Green light, but no sound.
  
  I installed alsa-utils and used aplay -l:
   **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
  card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus], device 0: HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro HiFi pcm512x-hifi-0 []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  
  Before OSMC i tried LibreElec and had the same problem. After putting in the right lines in the config-file i could check the card in settings, but no sound at all. I switched multiple LibreELEC/Kodi versions (I started with the one provided by the official raspberry pi site and updated from this versions), but the problem stayed the same. So i switched to OSMC, because 'OSMC supports HiFiBerry boards out of the box'. 
  
  Is there a solution on your side / do you have another idea what i could try?
  
  Kind regards
  Frederik Sabath 

  Edited by Frederik January 21, 2017 19:09
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  Frederik January 21, 2017 21:47

  Ok - i found the error.
  
  I did wrong on the hardware-installation. When i used the provided plastic spacers i did not connect the DAC+ properly to the Raspberry. 
  
  Now everything works fine.
  
  Kind regards
  Frederik Sabath

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  HiFiBerry team January 22, 2017 08:51

  Hi Frederik,

  this is interesting as I haven't seen this before. Even with the supplied spacers, the boards should connect fine. Where did you get your Raspberry Pi from?

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Frederik January 22, 2017 09:07

  Hi Daniel,
  
  i got my Raspberry Pi from https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-kits-and-bundles/products/raspberry-pi-3-media-centre-kit (UK).
  The HifiBerry DAC+ (wich provided the spacers) from https://www.rasppishop.de/HiFiBerry-DAC-Pro-Audio-fuer-Raspberry-Pi (Germany).
  With the spacers attached the HifiBerry did not connect completely to the Raspberry. I now only use the spacers on the side with the outputs. Now the construction is a little inclined but stable (and it works).
  
  I suppose the rasppishop spacers are to big or they send spacers for another product. When i got the time and the nerves i will measure them and will contact the shop providing the exact specifications. 
  
  I am happy that its working now, but yesterday i was wasting hours in believe it was a software-related issue^^
  
  Sounds great by the way ;-)
  
  Best regards,
  Frederik

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  Julian Cerruti January 17, 2018 01:11

  Hi all,

  I excitedly received my HiFiBerry Digi+ today but unfortunately I'm still struggling to see it working.

  I just wanted to add that the spacers that I got were also a bit longer than necessary to make the HAT seat properly. I am trying Federik's trick of only leaving the spacers on the connectors side.

  The board does seat properly that way, but still no dice for me with getting the board recognized, will keep trying.

  Best,

  Julian

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  HiFiBerry team January 17, 2018 05:28

  Hi,

  the spacers are fine. We're using these since several years without problems. What exactly did you configure?

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Julian Cerruti January 17, 2018 11:36

  Hi Daniel,

  After a couple of hours of Googling and testing I finally have everything working. Thank you very much for quickly checking and for your active support here.

  For the record in case it is useful as feedback and for others arriving here, these were exactly the things that were non-obvious to me - probably because I'm a little dumb, but perhaps others self-classify as such too:

  1- The spacers don't have any up or down indicators. I originally placed them with the nut facing down and it took me a while to figure out that wouldn't let the system fit into the case, which I also bought. Maybe this is obvious to many, but I would have appreciated a small diagram showing that nuts should go up-side

  2- If using the spacers in the four corners, the HAT board doesn't fully sit. Perhaps the connections are just fine that way. Since I was having trouble (for other reasons turned out) I ended up doing as Frederik above mentioned and only left two spacers. This ends up looking exactly like "Step 2: Connect the Hardware" here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Create-a-video-player-with-Dolby-DigitalDTS-output/

  3- I didn't realize I had to configure the driviers. I somehow thought they would be auto-recognized on this day and age. But after some googling and stumbling across forums, I finally found this: https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/articles/205377651-Configuring-Linux-4-x-or-higher . This was my actual problem why I couldn't see the board before. After this it was easy to move on

  4- In my case I'm using Kodi on a Retropie (Raspbian) distribution and want to use its video player to play audio pass-through on the HiFiBerry Digi+ S/PDIF. Getting this to work was also tricky, and the solution was to make sure to enable "Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding". That did the trick.

  I think your product is great, thank you for producing and supporting it. IMHO a small piece of paper with three steps: 1) install the board (showing the nuts upside), 2) install drivers (link to site), 3) Enjoy!  would go some ways towards saving figure-out time.

  I hope this is useful to you and other users.

  Best,

  Julian