HQP NAA - Raspberry Pi

dabassgoesboomboom · July 2, 2022, 4:09am

Nothing to configure on the Pi, unless you are already running another Pi with same NAA image ?

It’s easy to get Roon to play to HQPlayer but thats step 2. Step 1, need HQPlayer to see your NAA and DAC

steven_goodier · July 2, 2022, 7:21am

Nope. It’s the only Pi I’m trying this with.

ffk · July 2, 2022, 9:29am

All the times I’ve had an naa not show up it was network or firewall related and the naa was not being discovered by hqplayer. One thing to note, sometimes if prefs are open, to get the backend device to update/refresh, you need to switch the Backend to something other than what your on and then go back to what you want.

Is the naa showing up in your routers active dhcp leases?
I’m not sure if it matters for naa, as it usually messes with incoming connections, but is the Mac firewall enabled in Security & Privacy? If it is enabled, Is hqplayer allowed incoming connections?
Are you using little snitch or hands off? If so are they blocking any connections?

steven_goodier · July 2, 2022, 1:26pm

Hi J,

Thanks so much for your time. Apols for my lack of understanding. I’m a swim coach, never ever been involved in anything remotely IT ish.

So….

Can you give me an example pls.

Active leases? Soz but again I’m not understanding. I feel such a chump.

sorry mate. I’m lost again.

I’m an absolute rookie with all this, and totally lost in space most of the time when people speak in a colloquial manner. Fully ok if this is in the CBF basket too

jussi_laako · July 2, 2022, 1:27pm

On the Pi, you can login as “root” and then check “systemctl status networkaudiod” and it’s log output with “journalctl -u networkaudiod”

For debugging purposes you can also first stop the service “systemctl stop networkaudiod” and then start it from the console with “networkaudiod” to interactively monitor what is going on.

First thing is to get the NAA see HQPlayer’s discovery messages. These are reported in it’s log output.

steven_goodier · July 2, 2022, 1:35pm

Holy Crackers. How do I communicate to the Pi. HDMI to a monitor, keyboard etc. ok I never thought about the Pi as a computer holy Dooley.

Jussi I’ll teach you about exercise physiology if you are interested.

Thanks for your help. I’ll start in the morning, and have a crack at the Pi

dabassgoesboomboom · July 2, 2022, 8:58pm

You’ll need a micro HDMI cable for this if its a RPi 4

Or if you wanted one from a shop:

https://www.jaycar.com.au/micro-hdmi-plug-to-hdmi-socket-adaptor/p/PA3649

or

https://www.jaycar.com.au/concord-1-5m-4k-hdmi-2-0b-to-hdmi-micro-d-cable/p/WQ7910

dabassgoesboomboom · July 2, 2022, 9:00pm

If it involves waking up at crazy early hours for swimming practice, we’re not interested!

dabassgoesboomboom · July 2, 2022, 9:20pm

How did you burn the RPi NAA image to microSD card?

You used etcher?

steven_goodier · July 2, 2022, 11:18pm

Yep. I used the image you posted. And etcher. I used it twice, in case the first sd was corrupt.

Same result second time too.

How long should the Pi plus image take to boot?

dabassgoesboomboom · July 3, 2022, 12:09am

Max 2 minute

Wait for it to boot, then open HQP Desktop app

jussi_laako · July 3, 2022, 12:51am

It is always good to first have a display attached on first boot and just check how it goes. Just in case there is some boot issue due to problem in writing image to SD-card or similar. Once you know it boots up fine, you don’t need display or keyboard anymore.

steven_goodier · July 3, 2022, 1:15am

Ok I’ll grab a micro hdmi adaptor, and see if the image has loaded correctly. I have another RPi with a hat, that I could cross check with too.

steven_goodier · July 3, 2022, 10:02am

I have realised the Pi is not showing up on the network, with Ethernet connected. Swapped cables around, and they are not faulty.

FOXTEL is running on the same switch, showing on the network and working fine.

Pi was connected with embedded image ok, but since I’ve swapped image, it’s not connecting as the NAA.

jussi_laako · July 3, 2022, 10:22am

I think kernel on the NAA OS image is a bit older, since it is less frequently updated. Maybe you have some newer hardware revision. You can use HQPlayer OS as a NAA as well, and disable HQPlayer there with “systemctl stop hqplayerd ; systemctl disable hqplayerd”. Naming is different though, but you can also change this to “naa” instead of “hqplayer” if you like. Either by editing /etc/hostname, or /etc/default/networkaudiod and adding NETWORKAUDIOD_NAME=“naa” there.

I’ll look into updating the RPi4 NAA image.

jussi_laako · July 3, 2022, 9:50pm

I have built and uploaded version 4.2.2 of NAA OS images. For both RPi4 and regular x64.

For some things, such as UP Gateway USB input feature, I recommend staying on the current 4.2.0 ramfs image.

steven_goodier · July 4, 2022, 12:59am

Thanks Jussi. I’ll give it a swirl.

We have lift off. Thanks for your patience.

Pawel_Majcherek · December 30, 2022, 4:54am

Part. i have raspberry pi as endpoint roon. rasbian system. please tell me how to install hqp naa, on raspbian (unfortunately, due to the screen, I can’t change this system). roon and hqp would be on nuc i7. thank you

dabassgoesboomboom · December 30, 2022, 5:14am

What is exact Pi model?

Pawel_Majcherek · December 30, 2022, 5:26am

My raspberyy is 4b 4gb.