Hi, I’ve had a good search but thought it best to ask.
Tomorrow I’m receiving from Amazon a raspberry pi4, hifiberry digi+Pro, case and power.
What I’m confused about is which OS I put onto the sd card, do I put hifiberry OS as I have bought a hifiberry or is it my choice and I can instead choose Ropiee.
I’m not interested in any further features just a basic set up into my amps dac via coaxial.
Please help my confusion, thanks
I can’t speak for Hifiberry but I setup Ropiee on my pi4 and it was really easy to get going. As long as your hat that has the coax out is supported I would go with Ropiee just because it is a breeze to setup and use.
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It does not matter, it’s so easy to try both, any of the two will work. I did that and prefer hifiberry OS, but that is because I use Airplay and the radio remote. I also find hb os has a nicer interface.
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Thanks, I’ll try ropiee first see how I get on, cheers
If you try Ropieee go for XL version as you get added Spotify, Airplay and UPnP support, normal Ropieee is Roon only. Highly recommend either.
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The beauty of the Pi is that you can switch the SD card when you want, so you could try infinite OS without any loss of time.
I only tried RopieeeXL and it goes well. I never tried Airplay, even if I own only Apple mobiles, yet.
Weird, I just could not get Ropiee to be recognised in roon, it was driving me mad so I gave hifiberry a try and it worked perfectly first time, very pleased.
Tbh I don’t see why one should use anything other than hb os with hifiberry HATs. I have two such endpoints working flawlessly for three weeks already.
Ropieee offers a display interface. That might be a nice option to directly control the endpoint. I’Ve integrated such an display/endpoint in my bedroom.