What am I doing wrong? I make use of a RPI with RoPieee, which is connected to my DAC Topping E70 Velvet via USB.
In Roon, the Device Settings “Volume control” is set to “Device volume”.
In RoPieee, in the tab Audio, the switch “USB Force Volume:” is activated and the “Force Volume Level:” is set on “40”.
So I would think that, when starting op the Raspberry Pi and the Topping E70 V, that the volume starts at 40. But it always starts at “100”.
Is there something I forget, or how should I make sure that the starting volume is 40 instead of 100?
To be clear, I can change the volume on the screen of RoPieee, so the volume control works, it is only at startup that I would like to have it on 40 instead of the full power (100).
The logs show that your device does not support the command used for the ‘force volume’ setting.
However, that is also not needed: RoPieee stores and restores automatically the last mixer setting if available. The logs show all signs of this being properly supported.
So how to trigger this?
Set the volume (with Roon for example) to the desired volume (at around 40%) and then trigger a proper reboot from the ‘advanced’ menu. During a shutdown cycle RoPieee will store it’s actual volume and restores it on start up.
Let me know how this works out for you.
If not, I’ve got another idea on how to solve this, but that requires a software change.
Hi Harry,
That is indeed doing the trick. Now it starts up with the settings of the latest reboot.
Thank you for the fast and accurate response.
Kind regards, Frank.
Just another note (it seems you have solved it, but I thought I would point this out): In Roon on the “Device Setup” page click “Show Advanced” there is a selection for “Force max volume at playback start”, Just another place to look in the future, see below:
@bearFNF
Thank you for the tip, but the content of the page “Device setup” depends on the audio device which is connected. In my case, I do not have the “Force max volume at playback start”.
I seem to be facing the same issue as described(my DAC is a Dragonfly Red) and I’ve tried the Ropieee “Force Volume” switch both on and off, and with different values specified. At the moment I have it off as per your advice here.
So, I get the zone playing, set volume on the Roon slider to 40, then reboot Ropieee via the advanced menu. When I start the zone again via Roon, the volume control is where I left it but the DAC outputs 100% volume. As soon as I tap the “-” button in Roon the slider moves to 39 and the sound from the system instantly jumps down to what I would expect. This seems like an unusual mixture of behaviours(?)… Any help gratefully received.
I use Roon for volume control. The Dragonfly Red feeds a Fosi audio amplifier with the volume knob set at a point where 100% on Roon is just about as loud as I’d ever possibly need it to be, and generally listen with the Roon slider at c. 40%. Every time the pi reboots the initial volume is clearly 100% Roon output (even though the slider is still sitting at c.40) until I tap the minus button or move the slider a tiny bit and then the output jumps straight to a more normal level.
Roon playing, volume slider at 25, output fine.
Check switch in Ropieee is set to force to 25.
Reboot Pi.
Restart Roon.
Start audio.
The output is deafening until I tap “-” or move the slider in Roon, at which point it immediately jumps down to the expected level.
Should I be using DSP volume control in Roon, perhaps? I’d just like to find a combination of settings in Roon and Ropieee that doesn’t blast my ears if I forget to change the volume on the Roon slider before starting music!
The problem is that the device does support hardware volume (which is almost always ‘better’), but the behaviour is not ok. The other thing with hardware volume control is that RoPieee basically is not involved. So this points to an issue with the device. Have you checked if the device supports firmware updates? And if so, are you running the latest one?
Oh. and with the above scenario (force volume set to 25%, rebooting, correcting the volume etc…) it would be great if you can send me another feedback. Still curious what’s going on;-)
I ran through the steps again - same behaviour (feedback a79d7fb11707f5ec). It’s always after a Ropieee reboot that it’s deafening until I tweak the Roon volume control.
I’ll try to have a play around with combinations of DSP volume, turning off the RoPieee force USB Volume option etc. to see if I can find a combination that works. I’ll keep you posted.
