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”.
