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Integrate HiFiBerry OS in PINN ?

Joeri

February 27, 2020 08:40

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Hello everyone! 

I have several RPi's 3, 3+ and 4 running with an Hifi berry hat, mostly running eighter Kodi or PiCore Player. Two of them are with a touchscreen and with PINN you can create a multiboot and select te os to use. If I want to stream music I now have to install Raspbian and squeezbox plugin, since PiCore Player had not been updated for the RPi 3+ and 4 to support PINN.

This OS is way more advanced and it's o great you can tune the sound!! It would be perfect to use in a multiboot scenario....

https://pinn.mjh.nz/

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  HiFiBerry team February 27, 2020 11:33

  Hi,
  
  Unfortunately, HiFiBerryOS requires full access to the SD card. It can't coexist with other distributions.
  This is needed for our robust updater that always keeps 2 versions of the OS on SD card. It can't be changed.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

   

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  Joeri February 27, 2020 17:19

  Thats extremely unfortunate... to exclude all options esp. considering its an open platform and raspberry pi... but i guess thats how it its when people put it inside their speaker and never want to open it up again...

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  HiFiBerry team February 27, 2020 18:22

  I don't think booting 2 different distributions is a good solution for this. Why not just use 2 seperate Pi's - one for video and one for music?

  That's how we do it here. The video player just sends audio via TOSLink to a Beocreate 4CA, but you can also use a DAC+ DSP if you don't need an integrated amplifier.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Joeri February 27, 2020 21:10

  It is when you have a touchscreen model with built in speakers and miniamp. Its like a multiboot tablet/minipc/tv then. One is a music player, one is a video player, one is a retrogaming station and one is a 7 inch tablet to work on... Libreelec, picore player retropi and raspbian... makes sense right?!

  Edited by Joeri February 27, 2020 21:17
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  Chris July 05, 2021 21:23

  I just found this post. I was thinking about the exact same scenario and was surprised, PINN is not supported. I would like to have one Pi, which I can use for HifiBerry (by default) for Audio and LibreElec (seldom) for video. This way I would only need on Pi in my AV rack and not two which I never want to use at the same time.

  Is there no way or plan to support this?

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  HiFiBerry team July 06, 2021 07:02

  No, there are no plans. HiFiBerryOS requires full access to the SD card. This allows us to have a very robust updater that allow to fallback to the previous release if something goes wrong. This would not be possible with other software on the same SD card.