I have two identical RPi 2 model B with DAC+, which were gathering dust for few years. Now when I moved to a new house, I was planning on taking them into use. Main use case for me wouold be Spotify connect, with occational bluetooth audio playback. By looking at the features it looks like HifiBerryOS would be easy way to go.
So I created sdcard from "HiFiBerryOS for Raspberry Pi 2 (untested)". I've tried both of my devices with different size SD cards, but I've just been unable to get either of the devices to boot up. I've even tried older versions of hifiBerryOS. When I hook up monitor with HDMI the only thing I'm seeing is the RaspBerry pi screen with all colours, and that's it. HifiBerry OS just wont' boot up.
I can boot up Raspbery Pi OS nicely, and when I change config.txt there, I can load dac+ and it is listed with aplay -l. So there is nothing wrong with my HW. I tried to configure raspotify on that setup manually, but it just wouldn't work -> therefore I'm interested in testing HifiBerryOs.
My question is; has anyone successfully used HifiBerryOS on RPi 2 model B & DAC+? And any ideas why mine just won't boot up?
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Olli Seppälä Found out a distro called Volumio and went with that at this time. One thing I noticed though that may be related: chargers that I have arte only 2.1A, and at boot I noticed a warning about voltage. Don't know if that is related to HifiBerryOS not starting at all(?), but as Volumio seems to work just fine, I'll go with that for now.
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Benz Hello Olli
I have installed the latest release 20220826 on Raspberry Pi 2B with Digi+ and everything works perfectly. I have also installed Tidal connect which works also perfectly.
Good luck
Benoît
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Paul N I did get same problem.
Any ideas on how to solve this or should I also try Volumio instead?
My hw:
- Raspberry Pi Model B+ v1.2
- Hifiberry Amp2
- Powersupply connected to the Amp2I did first start up my RPi on a 32bit lite version of Raspberry OS and did an update of the firmware on my old RPi (sudo apt install rpi-update && rpi-update before I tried the HifiberryOS.
I did download "HiFiBerryOS for Raspberry Pi 2 (untested)" (I did get "hifiberryos-20221128-pi2") and loaded it into a sd card.
When I try to boot my RPi on the sd card with HifiberryOS (mentioned above) do I get the rainbow screen and the RPi doesn't load any further (only red light on board is on, the green did flash quickly when I did plug in the power and then no more.)
Br
Paul
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