Stable release 3.084 (2021/02/27)

Audio Gear Talk RoPieee
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News on what?

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hi @JWC ,

I see there has been a patch out today to the kernel wrt to the DAC+ driver.
Now, it’s description is rather short, but we can give it a try. That would mean you need to switch to the beta channel.

Let me know if you’re up to this.

Thanks

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Sure, I can probably give this a try tonight. Thanks.

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I am having the same issue with my dac+. Updated and then wouldn’t boot. Reflashed and booted, but when I selected dac+, it got stuck on the boot up.

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I’ve just pushed a new kernel to the beta channel (Pi 2 and 3). If you’re up to it and have a Pi 2/3 you could test that.

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I updated to beta 3.086. The behavior seems unchanged: Pi still will not boot with the DAC+ hat installed (and the green light flashes at 10 Hz), but boots without the hat.

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Hi Harry, Two of my three RoPieee Pi’s are at Rev. 3.066 and one is still showing 2.566.
All three are set to reboot at 3:04 AM with “On Boot” selected in the Update Schedule, and the Reboot Schedule set to “Daily”
I just manually rebooted the 2.566 Pi and nothing changed.
Aren’t updates supposed to happen automatically in the middle of the night when available?

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@jwc and @Charles_Turner

Sorry for my silence these last days. My laptop died :frowning:

Anyways, I’ve ordered a DAC+ to test with as I only got the DAC2HD and that works without any issues.
I’ll have one tomorrow, so let’s see if I can figure out what’s going on.

Thanks

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I have updated to 3.084 my RPi4 and observe about every 30 seconds a drop-out for 1 to 2 seconds. No matter what audio source I choose (Radio, lokal files, Tidal). I never saw this before. I fixed it temporarily by enabling WiFi. Any hints/ideas?

My setup: RoPieee on RPi4 connected by USB to DAC and by LAN to Roon Core

Thanks

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I would love to have some logs when that happens.

So switch back to cable, play some audio and when you have had drop-outs please send me feedback (which you can find on the ‘advanced’ tab).

Thanks

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@spockfish
Harry, I submitted feedback with ID dfbef63095f3b28e
At least 3 drop-outs after switch back to LAN and reboot.
Thanks for looking

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now drop-outs with WiFi, too.
Feedback ID: 348de436dd8141d0
WiFi connection is reported as 150 Mbit/s by my AVM FritzBix 7590.
Thanks for looking.

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@spockfish
Harry, I wanted to listen without drop-outs as before. So tried out the 3.086 beta version.
And I can report that the drop-outs are gone :sun_with_face:
Maybe you will find any reasons for that in my reports (feedbacks).

Thanks,
Henrik

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My 2 cents, Ropieee update on Pi2 and DAC+ killed my system. Looking with hdmi attached it hangs on network (Cable o WiFi not recognized).

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Any chance you can pull this release @spockfish ? I think you mentioned that possibility in an earlier message.

At the moment I can download the 31/01 release from your “latest” page but when I upgrade to XL I think it picks up 3.084, hence it dies on reboot.

Tried the latest beta 3.086 - also not working for me.

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Drop-outs are back in 3.086 beta :frowning:

I discovered that a boot is good. It fixes the drop-outs for a while. I think this behavior, can help you to locate the error.
In addition I would like to have the option to go back to firmware 3.075. Do you provide way or old image for this?

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Logs show you have dropouts on your network. I suggest you search in that direction. Maybe something changed in your infrastructure?

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Sorry guys for those with a Hifiberry DAC+ that have issues with the latest RoPieee release.

I did not have such a device and on top of that this week my laptop died on me :confused:

Anyways, I do now have the device and have been able to do some testing. While in my test system the DAC+ works out of the box I’ve pushed an update to the beta channel that reverts the latest change to the Hifiberry driver.

@JWC are you willing to test this? Or someone else with a Hifiberry DAC+ and problems with the latest release? You need to be on beta.

Thanks

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I have also couple of days to struckle with that Hifiberry dac+ problem. I can confirm that updating with beta in boot fix it. Device is booting up without problems. Thanks!

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I updated to 3.087, but the Pi2 still does not boot with the hat installed. No boot issues without the hat. I’m not sure why mine is so special. Maybe I should reflash, then update to the beta 3.087 again…

[Update] It works now. I changed the Config to USB-only, rebooted, changed the Config back to DAC+, and now it works. Refreshing the Config might have reloaded the new driver from the 3.087 update.

Thanks @spockfish

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