Hello all.
Just opened a old box of Pi bits, to discover a Pi 2B 1Gb / HiFiBerry DAC+ with a microSD still in.
Fired it up, found the DHCP server gave it an IP, and reports v352 and dated 20190831-1
So, my real questions, is there anyway to run the current version of RoPieee on a Pi 2B? Or do I need to move the HAT onto a 4 or 5?
Thanks for any help.
Ropieee no longer supports Pi2.
You should be able to move your HAT to a newer Pi, but you should check compatibility.
Some HATs have problems with Pi4/5.
You can still buy Pi3s if you need to.
Thanks
Was almost guessing that would be the answer, when I saw the list of download images for RoPieee.
Now to figure out if I use a 4B with 4Gb that I have, or buy a 5/2Gb as I need a new case for whatever runs the HiFiBerry HAT.
And already have a nice heatsink case for the 4 to use that for other things.
Sorry, it has a HiFiBerry Digi B+ HW 1.0 HAT, not the DAC+
You could perhaps ask Hi Fi Berry about compatibility, but I know they needed to change drivers for the Pi5, so my guess the Pi4 (or Pi3) is a safer bet.
Given you have a Pi4 on hand, I’d be tempted to try it (uncased) and see if it works.
It it does it looks like Hi Fi Berry are still selling Pi4 cases.
Yep, I see that The Pi Hut do HiFiBerry cases for both the 4 and 5, both are £33.50
I can pick up a 5/1Gb for £43.20, and just use that for RoPieee / Roon.
That then means I have my 4B/4Gb, and a very nice PiMoroni purple heatsink case for it, for experimentation. It seems that the colour anodised cases are no longer available, which seems a shame.
Have to say, after not looking at Pi stuff for a while, that a 4B/4Gb is now £96, and the 5 ranges from £43.20 all the way to £292.80. The price of RAM seems to have made Pi pricing and availability rather nuts.
Please check your hat works before buying the 5, there were some compatibility issues, it isn’t a 100% safe bet!
Oh man… that’s really loooong ago. So cool it still runs 
Cheers @GregD I think what I’ll do is run it with the Pi 4B/4Gb with the Digi+ hat bare first (have got it to the point that it is running RoPieee) so now to connect it to a DAC.
If that all works, I’ll probably grab another 4B, but maybe with 1Gb or 2Gb, as they are £33.60/£52.80, as well as the HiFiBerry case.
That should give me a few years use before the 4B is no longer supported.
@spockfish Yep, parked it in a box in storage for a while, so dragged it out and fired it up. Cheers for all your efforts.
Good plan.
I had an Allo Katana running on a Pi2 and replaced it a while back when @spockfish did a major upgrade and stopped supporting the Pi2.
The Katana had known problems on the Pi4 but has been happily running on a Pi3.
I think for a lot of uses the Pi5 isn’t better. Roon Bridge certainly doesn’t need the power.