RoPieee vs Hifibery Roon client

Berry · April 4, 2018, 12:47pm

Hi,
im running a RPI 3 with a Hifiberry Digi+ pro. What are the differences between these to?
If any.

Kind regards

Frank_Berens1 · April 4, 2018, 2:24pm

Having every nice results with RoPieee, optimal sound with no maintenance worries.

Tony_Reimann · April 4, 2018, 7:17pm

Try them both to see. I prefer Ropieee but YMMV

Berry · April 5, 2018, 11:57am

I tried both. There are no differences audible.

Tony_Reimann · April 5, 2018, 12:01pm

But the UI is better with Ropieee IMHO

Berry · April 5, 2018, 12:11pm

Does the Hifiberry have a UI at all?

Since there are no audible differences to me and you both have had
good experiences with Ropieee ill go with that to.

Regards

Tony_Reimann · April 6, 2018, 4:28am

Precisely the point, no it doesn’t.

llama · April 7, 2018, 8:16am

I found the hifiberry image to fail with some high res content. DietPi and Ropieee will happily light up all the options on any DAC I plug in.

Berry · April 7, 2018, 10:34am

Are there any other benefits of DietPi? I always thought it’s similar to Volumio and has nothing to do with Roon

Tony_Reimann · April 7, 2018, 7:28pm

Dietpi is nothing like Volumio. It is an image for a RPi and other SBCs which once flashed has a rudimentary menu system accessed via SSH which allow the installation of other software packages, including Roon bridge, and selection of various audio devices.

If you just want to set up a Roon endpoint with Hifiberry hardware you may as well use Ropieee.