PiDAC and Rune Audio help - was up till 2:30am!

[montesquieu]

I bought Duncan's PiDAC/RPi setup and finally rolled my sleeves up last night to get it going.

I'd had some success with my own RPi / Digi+ board which outputs SPDIF to the Audio Note DAC but wanted to compare the two before I stick the DAC setup in the study (where Dunc's little full-range speakers are doing a lovely job).

I simply couldn't get whatever software was on it (moode I think) to run with my 4TB Terrastation - it was timing out when I tried to point it at the dick, identical problems to what I had when I tried Volumio.

So I switched to Rune Audio which I had got working quite happily last year with the Digi+. However I can't remember what I did back then (some edit to the config file I think, in the Mac's simple text editor - I didn't have to go into any sort of command line edits) and there's no option to select the PiDAC when I go into settings. So I've now got Rune Audio 90%working, talking to MMOD on my phone and to the Terrastation - it says it's streaming - but there is no sound coming out of the analog outputs, as I can't select the PiDAC board.

Any ideas on how I get an option to select it?

[struth]

Was the terrastation self powered. Not being so can cause that or could.

[rikardo1979]

I bought Duncan's PiDAC/RPi setup and finally rolled my sleeves up last night to get it going.

I'd had some success with my own RPi / Digi+ board which outputs SPDIF to the Audio Note DAC but wanted to compare the two before I stick the DAC setup in the study (where Dunc's little full-range speakers are doing a lovely job).

I simply couldn't get whatever software was on it (moode I think) to run with my 4TB Terrastation - it was timing out when I tried to point it at the dick, identical problems to what I had when I tried Volumio.

So I switched to Rune Audio which I had got working quite happily last year with the Digi+. However I can't remember what I did back then (some edit to the config file I think, in the Mac's simple text editor - I didn't have to go into any sort of command line edits) and there's no option to select the PiDAC when I go into settings. So I've now got Rune Audio 90%working, talking to MMOD on my phone and to the Terrastation - it says it's streaming - but there is no sound coming out of the analog outputs, as I can't select the PiDAC board.

Any ideas on how I get an option to select it?

so what OS you have on your RPi?

[montesquieu]

so what OS you have on your RPi?

I cracked it - very simple, just remove a hash from the appropriate audio interface in the confix.txt file, this can be done directly before burning the image on the memory card. Rune has digi+ and PiDac so it's all working fine on both now. Phew! Now for some listening.

I've been using the integrated OS with the Rune Audio disk image, I don't want to bugger around in Linux. I have a Unix adminstrator's certificate (I was working with Sun kit at the time) from some time in the early 90 and the PTSD only recently subsided!

Maybe trying to fix this after a bottle of red that late in the evening was part of the problem!

[mikeyb]

it was timing out when I tried to point it at the dick

I've tried that too, never seems to work ;)