Raspberry Pi 3B..hifiBerry. Works great..but

Jeff_White · July 20, 2017, 5:20am

Quick Story…
Unboxed, Assembled, Flashe Roon image to SD card. Booted…and Music played… Wow… amazing…

Here is the real story… above is what I should have done… Instead.
0. Down load and copy image to SD card…

Unboxed
Assembled
Plugged in keyboard mouse screen
Inserted SD card with Windows copied image Roon file.
Powered on
Nothing…
Try 50 more times… Nothing
Unassembled, removed hifiberry
Repeat… Nothing
Read online… lots of videos lots of clues… no answers
Finally… Flash, burn, or etch the image to SD… YEAH… new idea which I knew, but just read COPY so many times instead of flash SD…
Now Boot… BOOM. Comes right up to a password screen.
Spend an hour trying to figure out the password…
Finally find on forum… IT IS LOCKED… your done.
Look on Roon remote and there it is like magic.

So for anyone trying this. It is a great and simple Roon end point… just download a image flash too… ETCHER… and it should take less than 5 minutes to be up and working…

Easysqueezy · July 20, 2017, 5:30am

Rarely takes me more than 10 mins to set up any of these distros. I make sure I read through before starting then just follow the guides. And I’m a Noob!

Jeff_White · July 20, 2017, 5:49am

We are exactly the same but opposite… I do all the work… Then read the guides. It’s my mom’s fault… They say she dropped me twice… from high up.

Jeff

Dick_Vliek · July 20, 2017, 11:29pm

Jeff,

you are AWESOME!

Easysqueezy · July 22, 2017, 6:18am

You remind me of my father in law.

Easysqueezy · July 23, 2017, 6:39pm

He wasn’t dropped…he was pushed.

Jeff_White · July 23, 2017, 7:05pm

It’s likely that was the true story for me as well…
Hahhaha… anyway I hope you still like your Farther In Law regardless.

Easysqueezy · July 23, 2017, 7:14pm

He’s ace. Almost 80 and still into Hi-Fi and streaming. I set his Nova box up for him and he loves it. The next step is to try the new Roon-Devialet update and see how it compares to his current USB driven set up. He also wants me to build a Pi Screen/ Dac combination for him as he likes the idea of using one for an endpoint.I hope Im as interested at that age.