Where can I find the public RoonBridge builds?
My guess is nowhere 
(because it’s not released… yet)
I have a similar setup, RPi2 and HFiBerry Digi+ but using Squeezelite. I can output 24/912 to my NAD D3020 using the Coaxial output. Works really well. (beside network throughput issue from time to time).
What would be the benefit of having the HiFiBerry Roon certified ? Only having the whole chain listed in Roon ?
Great news! Mine runs fine on a self install based on all the help documented here, but I still think its inelegant compared to a downloadable image - especially for people not too interested in this sort of stuff. So it’s great to see more appearing. Hopefully Roons will follow shortly too.
One suggestion I’d like to make - is that developers add an option of turning off all the LEDs on the device, add on boards, and Ethernet (if possible). Those flashing lights are distracting in the bedroom. Well, time and a place…
I didn’t see hifiberry on the partners page?
Nice to see them climb on board – this will make building Pi/Hifiberry-based Roon Bridges a lot easier for I lot of folks.
No Wifi though, I guess. And I’ll still roll my own, if only for fine-grained volume control though amixer.
According to HiFiBerry, it does support WiFi:
it also supports WiFi. You need to enable WiFi by editing the config file wpa_supplicant.conf on the FAT partition. Add the following lines:
network={
ssid=“Your SSID Here”
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
psk=“YourPresharedKeyHere”
}
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Installed the image and it works, but a couple of points which I have also posted over on the HiFiBerry Forum.
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Can it remember the last volume when it is powered on - currently it defaults back to 100% (not sure if this is a roon setting @mike @vova or something on the Pi)
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Playing a 352.8Khz/24bit file or a DSD files crashes it and I have to power it off/on again to reset. When checking the setting it appears it will take anything:-
For now I’ve just set a limit of 192/24 so it forces it to down sample.
I’ll test the Digi+ later.
The DAC+ Pro is PCM only, up to 192Khz/24Bit. There’s obviously some misreporting going on, but I’m sure the Hifiberry team will sort this out quickly. In the mean time, you may want to set your DSD Playback Strategy to ‘Convert to PCM’ in Settings as well.
Thinking about it – why are these distributions so obese? (IQAudio’s is 1,93GB, while HifiBerry’s is 1,56GB). I think these certified distro’s could do far better:
- Use a nice and sleek, custom built minimal distro (<50MB should be possible, and then some – maybe @danny can help here);
- Make it all run from RAM (look at what PiCorePlayer is doing here), minimising the chances of card corruption at improper shutdown;
- Offer a simple webpage for basic configuration options:
** Networking/Wifi
** OS updates
** HAT selection (if needed)
These would really be of service for anyone not able or caring to configure their Pi with Roon Bridge themselves, and be truly bullet-proof. Sideloading wpa_supplicant.conf in /boot with no way of troubleshooting when your Pi does not perform as expected kind of defeats the purpose of a ready-to-run image.
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Hifiberry have seen the misreporting issue and are looking into it. I can’t recall seeing a Hifiberry representative on this forum so the excellent suggestions by Rene might be well made on their forum also.
I’ve posted your observations in the other forum. I agree with them - the ability to access settings via a web page in PiCorePlayer is invaluable, and sorely missed in the HiFiberry and IQaudIO RoonReady products currently available.
I noticed hifiberry in the RoonReady release notes, so assume they’ll have their own category here soon…
For anyone already running one with RoonBridge, what’s the best way to migrate to RoonReady? Any advantages/disadvantages?
Let’s ping @mike about a Hifiberry section.
To migrate your Hifiberry to RoonReady: download the Roon image from Hifiberry, flash to a different SD-card, boot your Pi.
You’ll gain some nice artwork:
Otherwise, there’s no functional difference. The RoonReady implementation is tailored to your Hifiberry’s hardware, so a few generic config options are missing. As for as updates go, you’ll be dependant on Hifiberry, while Roon Bridge installations update themselves with new Roon releases.
I’ve been running Hifiberry’s image for a few weeks now (loaded it for testing, been too lazy to swap cards again) without issues. But I’ll revert to Roon Bridge whenever I find the time.
Thanks RBM.
Can you still ssh into the OS? I have the onboard sound devices disabled for example.
I might be unique, but I don’t actually really like the device specific artwork on the main GUI. Well, that’s not telling the whole picture - I like the custom artwork in the signal chain or settings, but for my zones I really want custom artwork. In my world my lounge should be a Devialet graphic and in the bedroom a Marshall speaker graphic. Or a symbol for lounge and bedroom. My point is, no one in my household (me included and I’m obviously into this stuff) thinks of the zones in terms of the DAC or streamer or whatever. No one even knows I have a raspberry pi behind the chest of drawers in the bedroom or a microrendu behind the hifi. So it just doesn’t make sense. I wish we could make and specify our own. That in itself will probably keep me on RoonBridge on the Pi!
So RoonReady devices don’t update themselves, or offer the updates via Roon?
Hifiberry’s image is closed – you can’t ssh in. All onboard audio is disabled though.
As RoonReady is a device specific implementation, I guess updates are the manufacturer’s responsibility. For what I’ve seen with IQ Audio and Hifiberry, this means reflashing the card.
It’s perfectly fine to run RoonBridge though – sound wise and functionally it is the same stuff.
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[quote=“hifi_swlon, post:24, topic:8456, full:true”]
I like the custom artwork in the signal chain or settings! but for my zones I really want custom artwork. In my world my lounge should be a Devialet graphic and in the bedroom a Marshall speaker graphic. Or a symbol for lounge and bedroom. My point is, no one in my household (me included and I’m obviously into this stuff) thinks of the zones in terms of the DAC or streamer or whatever. No one even knows I have a raspberry pi behind the chest of drawers in the bedroom or a microrendu behind the hifi. So it just doesn’t make sense.
I wish we could make and specify our own. [/quote]
Sounds like a Feature Request to me - and one that I would readily support.
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Pretty sure I’ve got at least one in already! 
Thanks RBM, a fountain of knowledge as always.
I had been wondering about the microRendu actually. It would be nice if roon bridge evolved so that even though the manufacture makes the updates, you could still se the current and available versions, as well as instigate their update via Roon’s settings roonbridge style. Reflashing a card seems quite ott but I guess they are dealing with possible OS changes too.
I won’t leap to change I don’t think.
Sonore have created their own update system for the SonicOrbiter SE and microRendu, which allows for in situ updates – for the OS as well as their RoonReady and NAA implementations.
The HiFiBerry RoonReady image is working much better for me than the recent versions of RoonBridge on Raspbian. With the last couple of updates of RoonBridge I started getting frequent network dropouts over wifi. Switching to the RoonReady image it’s rock solid again.
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