Raspberry pi OS install - not ropieee

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I’ve used ropieee in the past but I find it rather opaque in installation. I’ve just tried to get it working again and the Pis just sat there and looked at me, I can’t be bothered in troubleshooting.
So…if I want to install an OS with Roon and DAC HAT support where I can, hopefully, see more of the install process. What would people recommend?

Also, I’m presuming I’d have to plug keyboard, mouse and screen into the pi?
(Another trawl through the boxes for wired bits :slightly_smiling_face:)

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Not necessarily, I’d install a bare bones OS without desktop environment and use SSH from the PC to gain access to the console.

From there, follow Roon’s bridge install guide.

Regarding the HAT, since I’ve never done that due to using USB DAC, I think some mfg’s even offer an OS image to burn to the SD card, or have instructions to manually install from a console, also.

Good luck!

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  1. With raspberry pi imager you can download your choice of rpi os (lite) and configure wifi and ssh access (using the cog wheel), so you can plug in the sd card and connect with ssh.
  2. Dietpi is an alternative, with some menus, i.e. for configuration of your hat. You have files dietpi.txt and dietpi-wifi.txt where you can put your wifi settings after writing the sd card (in the smaller boot partition). Then you can boot up the system, log in with ssh, go through the initial setup, configure audio and install roon bridge.

Dietpi is more user friendly, rpi os more puristic, closer to pure debian.

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If your DAC HAT is HiFiBerry consider HiFiBerryOS: https://www.hifiberry.com/hifiberryos/

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