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AMP2 no sound with Volumio

Jorg

September 11, 2018 20:16

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Some days ago I switched from Kodi to Volumio (sounds better on my other USB dacs) on my RP3 with AMP2. All worked well before with Kodi.

Unfortunately I got into problems after installing Volumio (2.452). After first installing and starting it all up via Wifi and installing Spotify connect plugin all worked smooth and fine. But… after a reboot I got no sound at al. Looked at several forums and webpages for answers and tried most suggestions (selecting different dac, installing equalizer plugin, reboot after deselecting I2S etc). This gives no result but no sound or this error message:

Error failed to open “alsa”[alsa]; Failed to open ALSA device “hw:1,0”: No such file or directory.

Some extra info. The AMP2 worked well for quite a while with Kodi before and like said worked after the first boot of Volumio, so I would suspect no hardware issue here.

Does anyone have a solution for this frustrating issue? Thanks!

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  HiFiBerry team September 12, 2018 18:49

  Check the output of "aplay -l". Volumio sometimes seems to create an incorrect configuration.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Jorg September 14, 2018 08:28

  Thanks Daniel... But where can I check the "Aplay -l" ? Sorry I am not a very advanced user and thusfar only used the Volumio UI for settings etc.

   

  Thanks again for your help!

  Cheers,

  Jorg

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  HiFiBerry team September 14, 2018 08:30

  Hi, 

  you need to login via SSH and then run this command (with a lowercase a at the beginning) from command line. 

  For SSH clients check the last section here:
  https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Jorg September 14, 2018 12:29

  Ok. First had to enable SSH in dev mode, but after that could access the RP.

   

  That's done. Got this result:

   

  **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
  card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
  Subdevices: 7/7
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  card 1: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

   

  Not sure how to read this, but I see Hifiberry dac. 

   

  After this I was able to select Hifiberry DAC Plus - I2S DAC = on and Dac model DAC plus again. Not sure why, but happy it works and after 3 restarts I think it might be stable.

   

  Thanks for the help!

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  John Fuller October 16, 2018 21:41

  It will work with an AMP2 and Volumio2 with these settings.