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Get HifiBerry Digi+ working on Pi5

Georg Keiner

December 19, 2023 19:13

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I've got a Pi 5 (8 GB). I ordered a Digi+ to have an optical output. But first I had no luck getting the board recognized by the new Pi 5 an Raspberry Pi OS.

I got it working with the help of these two posts:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5724

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5743

1. Putting dtoverlay= in config.txt before any other dt settings disables the loading of the overlay from the HAT EEPROM. 

2. Adding the 'slave' parameter to dtoverlay.

The relevant parts of my config.txt look like this:

dtoverlay=
dtparam=audio=on
dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi,slave

Did anyone find another way to get this card working on the new Pi?

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  HiFiBerry team December 20, 2023 09:32

  First: You should disable onboard sound:

  dtparam=audio=off

  You can't use the "slave" mode with the Digi, but you also don't have to. What version of the Digi+ exactly are you using? To disable EEPROM usage, you need to add

  force_eeprom_read=0

  
  https://www.hifiberry.com/docs/software/configuring-linux-3-18-x/

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  Georg Keiner December 20, 2023 11:34

  Thank you! These settings work on my Pi 5 with HifiBerry Digi+, HW 1.3.

  Would be great if there was a document for Pi 5 with all the necessary settings for all HifiBerry boards. I was about to send my Digi+ back. I just could not get it to work with my Pi 5.

   

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  HiFiBerry team December 20, 2023 12:23

  Just check the document I've linked above. There you can find the driver configurations for all cards. If you click on Documents/First steps on our web site, that's the first document.
  
  In general, there are no differences in configuration between the Pi4 and Pi5. However, there are still some bugs (or missing features) in the Pi5 drivers. This should be getting better in the next months.