Ropieee and Beocreate?

Audio Gear Talk RoPieee
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Hi there.

Not sure whether this has been addressed before. Hifiberry offers the Beocreate board, essentially an all in one DAC and amplifier to use in old passive speakers.

https://www.hifiberry.com/beocreate/
https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/beocreate/beocreate-4-channel-amplifier/

Their raspberry package enables WiFi and Bluetooth audio to the board. I would love to build one and use as a stand-alone Roon endpoint / system.

Any chance RoPieee can be used to do so?

BTW, thank you so much for the project and all the effort involved. Running an RoPieee endpoint with the HiFiBerry DAC+ and love it.

Ande

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Hi @Ande,

Biggest issue is that I don’t have this hardware to test with.
I need to do some reading here, still not sure how this works.

Thanks,

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Good morning @spockfish,

thank you for considering to support this specific hardware.

Are you interested in the project? If yes, I would try to supply you / donate a board to you.

Ande

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@spockfish - according to Daniel from HiFiBerry it looks like all you have to do is to select the “HiFiBerry DAC” driver 


Ande

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I’m still not entirely sure how this should look like.
And to be honest: is there a reason why you want to do this with RoPieee in stead of a more general purpose solution like DietPi for example?

Regards Harry

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I ordered one, and will try. Will let you know how it works :wink:

Ande

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@spockfish: it’s a DAC/AMP board with profiles for a few Beovox speakers and a generic profile as well. It can be activated by selecting the HifiBerry DAC – works with Ropieee out of the box.

Here’s the guide – Ropieee mentioned: :slight_smile:

https://www.hifiberry.com/blog/using-roon-with-the-beocreate-4-channel-amplifier/

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Any further update on the Beocreate? My use case is:

A) I want an amplified Roon endpoint to power some speakers and
B) I want the Optical-In to connect to a TV so it will work with the Beocreate driven speakers.

That’s why the Beocreate is of interest.

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The link above has guides for DietPi and RoPieee and HifiBerry themselves suggest both work with Roon. For the optical-in, this may work ‘out of the box’ but you are likely to get a better response on the HifiBerry forum than here as Harry doesn’t have a Beocreate, but the HifiBerry team do have Ropieee!

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Is it possible to drive the speakers separately? I don’t want to send multiple sources of music to the DAC, but I can see situations where I would want different volumes in the two rooms?