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raspberry pi 2

tommaso.b.bianchi

February 03, 2015 10:35

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Hi,

yesterday has been announced the brand new powerful Raspberry Pi 2.

Will the digi+ be compatible with the raspberry pi 2? Or we have to wait a new digi+?

thanks

Tommaso Bianchi

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  HiFiBerry team February 03, 2015 10:40

  Hi Tomasso,
  
  we expect the board to be compatible, but couldn't test it yet. To be sure, wait 1-2 more days until we have the RPI2 here for tests. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or check our new section regularly. We will publish the results as soon as we know more.
  BTW: At the moment always everywhere the RPI2 is sold out, if you din't order one already you might have to wait quite some time.
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  franz February 03, 2015 10:49

  I'm quite sure you can use the digi+ without problems on the Pi 2. But i guess we'll have to wait for the first one to try. The major changes are the four cores, improved video performance and 1GB of RAM. Other than that all connectors stayed the same. According to this article "The Raspberry Pi 2 runs on the same systems as the Model B+, so everything you have for the Model B+, and older Pi boards, will work without issue on the Pi 2."
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  HiFiBerry team February 06, 2015 07:55

  I can confirm now that all "+" boards with the Raspberry Pi 2 B.
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  Gene Prosper February 06, 2015 22:54

  Hi
  
  I have a hifi berry digi+ and I was using the raspberry pi B+. I was keen to upgrade to the pi 2 because I like to use openelec Kodi and listen to Spotify directly thorough the operating platform but unfortunately the pi crashes often. I have just now plugged my digi+ into the pi 2 and taken the card out of the pi B+ and plugged it into the pi 2 and I can't get the pi to boot and all I get is the 'colour screen'. Is the software ready for the pi 2? and if not when will it be released so I can now use my upgraded pi 2?
  
  Regards
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  HiFiBerry team February 07, 2015 07:07

  Hi Gene,
  
  the Digi works without problems. If you upgraded your kernel, there is nothing more to do. However the "crashes often" looks like the power supply is not good enough. You might try a better power supply.
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  HiFiBerry team February 07, 2015 07:17

  Another thing: The Raspberry Pi version of OpenElec does not work with the RPI2. You need to download the Raspberry Pi 2 version.
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  mr.fusion February 07, 2015 20:14

  Does the new Raspberry Pi 2 fit the case you sell?
  https://www.hifiberry.com/product/hifiberry-caseplus/
  Thanks!
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  Gene Prosper February 07, 2015 21:03

  Hi Daniel thanks for your response. I downloaded the latest OpenElac from their website for RP2, works great. How do I now activate the ALSA so it switches on the Digi + ?
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  HiFiBerry team February 08, 2015 15:02

  @mr.fusion: The case works also for the Raspberry Pi 2.
  @Gene: It looks like the device-tree-overlay files are missing in the latest OpenElec. I have to look into this in detail.
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  HiFiBerry team February 08, 2015 15:24

  It is not clear yet why the device_tree_overlay doen't work. I hope the developers will have a look at this soon:
  http://openelec.tv/forum/110-update-openelec/75200-failed-to-load-device-tree-overlay#130791
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  Gene Prosper February 08, 2015 17:14

  thanks Daniel looking forward to using when working. Is there any other distribution you know (similar to kodi) that works ? i'm not fussed wether its Open Elec or any other.
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  mr.fusion February 08, 2015 18:33

  @Daniel: Thanks for the information.
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  Gene Prosper February 09, 2015 18:36

  hi Daniel
  
  your 'easy to use' guide worked wonderfully on my old pi:
  
  https://www.hifiberry.com/guides/openelec-for-hifiberry/
  
  any chance you can 'by pass' open elec people and create your own download for us 'non code' rpi 2 people!!
  
  regards
  
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  HiFiBerry team February 09, 2015 19:58

  Hi Gene,
  
  no chance of bypassing the OpenElec people as I do not have a solution yet. However I heard that the will be a bugfix in 5.0.2. I hope we can find a workaround before this. But it will need some hacking...
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  BerryUser February 09, 2015 20:05

  I also have had some trouble using the Digi+ with the latest OpenElec Release and my new Pi2.
  However, as Daniel already pointed out the overlay files are missing in the latest release.
  After i have copied ALL of the overlay files (some files do have dependencies) to /flash/overlay the Digi+ shows up in alsa.
  What I have done:
  - Download ALL overlay files from here:
  - Login to your pi using ssh
  - mount flash drive with write access: mount -o rw,remount /flash
  - copy all overlay files to /flash/overlays (e.g. using scp)
  - add: "dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi" to file /flash/config.txt
  - reboot
  
  now "aplay -l" should list the digi+
  However, I have no idea why it didn't work for Daniel.
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  HiFiBerry team February 09, 2015 20:23

  Hi,
  
  check that the files are really the raw files. I made a mistake and did not download the raw file, but an HTML page.
  Check out the command from this guide:
  https://www.hifiberry.com/guides/configuring-the-sound-card-in-openelec-5-0-1-or-higher-with-device-tree-overlays/
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  Gene Prosper February 19, 2015 22:53

  Hi Daniel
  
  Any luck with open Elac and rp2 yet?
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  HiFiBerry team February 20, 2015 05:59

  Hi Gene,
  
  what do you mean by "any luck"? OpenElec is working with our boards. Check out the guide:
  https://www.hifiberry.com/guides/configuring-the-sound-card-in-openelec-with-device-tree-overlays/
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  Jesus Lopez February 27, 2015 17:06

  Bonjour Daniel.
  J ´ai du mal a configurer ma Raspberry 2.
  Est-ce que vous allez mettre à jour une "image sdc" pour Openelec.
  Celle que vous avez: Openelec 4.1.6, n´est pas compatible avec la Rpi2 ARMv7
  Bien à vous
  Jesús