Ropiee setup for Piano Dac 2.1 breaks OS

I’ve tried this on a Pi 3b, and multiple Pi4s. Have flashed and re-flashed multiple microsd cards and the result every time is the same.
Set up Ropieee on the Pi, everything installs and runs perfectly up until I go to the Audio tab and select my pi hat DAC, Allo Piano 2.1, configure, then the reboot process proceeds as normal up until starting Roon Bridge and stalls.

On the browser window, the initialising screen shows, but never goes away.
I’ve left this going for hours to no avail, have tried this process with and without the RPi touchscreen connected to no avail. Same result every time.

Is the driver for this DAC broken or something? I’ve gone through the same process recently for other DAC hats with no issues recently.
There is no work-around for this that I can find. Cutting the power and re-booting leads to the same end-point.

sent feedback just before last attempted reboot: fada9f6655a79b82

Unfortunately this log does not show much out of the ordinary, assuming this is a log from the time you configured the Piano, but never got to boot it up properly.

So … this is pure speculation, but I see 2 options:
1 (happens quite a lot): the HAT is not properly connected
2 Allo is out of business. That also means there drivers in the Linux kernel are unmaintained. It could be that with the new(er) kernel it stopped working altogether.

Thanks

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Well… I think this is not Allo. This is the hardware partner of Allo, now doing things completely by themselves.

  1. The hat is absolutely properly connected.
  2. The hat works fine on dietpi, moode, volumio, rpi os, etc. just fine… why is it only on ropieee that I experience this issue?

Well, there are a lot of ‘wheels’ involved, so I dunno. Could be many things, but it is probably the kernel driver. However, without proper loggings this is hard (impossible) to debug. I don’t have the Piano HAT myself, otherwise I would have tried it.

Are you willing to figure this one out? As you are experienced with dietpi for example, I guess you’re also familiair with ssh and running some commands on the terminal?

Thanks

If you can point me in the right direction, I can absolutely try to figure this out.