IQaudio RC5 Image Questions

Audio Gear Talk Raspberry Pi
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Hello,

Wondering if anyone can help me understand the different between the IQaudio image and the image I would create using Rene’s guide? The reason I ask is because I have two Pi3’s with pi-dac+'s and one pi 3 connected to an external dac. Using just the two IQaudio pi’s as a group they work great. As soon as I had the external dac problems start. Audio syncing goes out frequently and songs won’t fully play. Even if it’s one iqaudio pi and external pi. If I run just the external pi it works wells.

The usb audio doesn’t work on the RC5 image. Is there a setting a can change to allow it? Would like to see if maybe it’s something in my raspbian lite image I’m doing wrong.

Thoughts?

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René’s guide is for setting up RoonBridge on an RPi. RoonBridge is a general-purpose package built by Roon Labs for a wide range of hardware, whereas the IQaudIO RC5 image is a RoonReady image, built by IQaudIO, certified by Roon Labs, and the package is tailored for IQaudIO’s hardware. That’s why it doesn’t support the USB audio.

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Thanks Geoff. Figured but wanted to check.