'Analog Dinosaur' succumbs to the joys of FBA : enter Raspberry Pi 2/IQ-Audio DAC+!!

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30-09-2015, 19:52
Marco

Quote:

Originally Posted by WAD62

IMHO there's not much in the world of IT that actually is 'magic', however...:)

My QNAP NAS is fanless, cheap (in comparison with a PC/Laptop), runs at 12W, sleeps at 5W, provides RAID capabilities for D/R, and provides me with a true 'server' power schedule capability permitting scheduled down times (0 W ;) ) over a weekly period...not 'magic', more 'advantageous'

Yup, hence why I use one :)

Marco.
10-10-2015, 10:11
Terry

Morning everyone.
I wonder if anyone can shed any light on this for me, my iqaudio dac that is mounted to my rpi is suddenly not showing up in volumio,when you go to the playback tab and then the audio output dropdown the only option that is there is ALSA. I bought a new sd card incase that was the promlem but the same thing. And when you go to alsamixer all you get is the one pcm bar. Any ideas will be most welcome, thanks !!
10-10-2015, 10:21
struth

Might have lost the driver..ie defaulted...mine did that causing some confusion. Funnily it did come back. Check the settings
Also check its showing i2s
10-10-2015, 11:38
Terry

Thanks Grant
Seems that it just turned up again like yours, after a lot of head scratching !!
13-10-2015, 07:06
guyb

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark Grant

:) No magic here. :)

I am the same as Will, a NAS due to reliability, low power consumption, easy to configure etc, they generally just work for years once the shares etc are setup.

Presently using a Synology 214+ with a linear PSU although it is overkill really and a 214 or 'J' model would have done.

Everyone has their favourite brands and sticks to them once familiar with an interface and not everyone likes to tinker with 'raw' linux or knows how to.
Each to their own as always :)

Hi Mark,

Do you do a linear power supply for the 4 bay Synology's? They are the ones that have what looks like a din connector.

Guy
13-10-2015, 07:20
guyb

'Analog Dinosaur' succumbs to the joys of FBA : enter Raspberry Pi 2/IQ-Audio...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marco

Hi Guy,

Love that! Maybe I'm missing it, but what's inside the smallest box? The biggest box houses the RRi, right? And the next biggest one is the PSU? So what's inside the little box? :)

Where did you get the cases from?

Marco.

Hi Marco,

I somehow missed this!

I got the case from RS Components
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/gener...sures/7733016/

There made by Hammond and they have a number of different sizes in both black and silver.

I have made a few more mods to the case including adding (or should I say about to) one of these:
http://www.msldigital.com/collection...-2015-external

It allows for a full (safe) power down and power up via remote control (and by using the power button on the board itself).

It also allows for other remote codes to be passed through so you can use LIRC to control MPD for play/pause, stop, next, previous, etc.

They also do one with built in power LED and IR sensor but I am going to mount the external ones in/on the case

Will post pics when done :)

I have also now switched to RuneAudio as, although very similar, I feel the over all experience is better

Guy
13-10-2015, 09:26
Mark Grant

Quote:

Originally Posted by guyb

I got the case from RS Components
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/gener...sures/7733016/

There made by Hammond and they have a number of different sizes in both black and silver.

Guy

Great quality cases, the manufacturers website is here to help find all the sizes and types:
http://www.hammondmfg.com/scpg.htm
13-10-2015, 14:00
chris_s

Hi Guy,

I got one of the RemotePi Board Plus 2015 from MSLDigital but not had chance to install properly yet on my Pi2 - But, have you had chance to get it to work properly with RuneAudio (which is also my preferred player)? It works on the others but not out of the box with RuneAudio without some command-line work. I contacted them but they've not had time to properly advise....

Chris.
13-10-2015, 20:06
guyb

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_s

Hi Guy,

I got one of the RemotePi Board Plus 2015 from MSLDigital but not had chance to install properly yet on my Pi2 - But, have you had chance to get it to work properly with RuneAudio (which is also my preferred player)? It works on the others but not out of the box with RuneAudio without some command-line work. I contacted them but they've not had time to properly advise....

Chris.

I have written the script and setup the systemctl service (how ArchLinux runs 'stuff' on startup) and everything seemed to run OK but as I haven't the RemotePi yet I can't actually test it.

I have also created the script and located the file that needs changing so that when you select 'turn off -> shutdown' from the Web Interface it powers down using the RemotePi.

I can PM the instructions to you for what I have so far if you want to test :)

Or I can test it when I have my RemotePi and see if it works and send you the instructions once I confirm it works.

Guy
19-10-2015, 16:03
guyb

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_s

Hi Guy,

I got one of the RemotePi Board Plus 2015 from MSLDigital but not had chance to install properly yet on my Pi2 - But, have you had chance to get it to work properly with RuneAudio (which is also my preferred player)? It works on the others but not out of the box with RuneAudio without some command-line work. I contacted them but they've not had time to properly advise....

Chris.

Hi Chris,

I have my RemotePi and have set it up and got the power up/down feature working in RuneAudio and can now power up and shutdown the Pi using a spare aluminum apple remote that I have. This was important to me as my USB DAC is bus powered and it didn't want it left on 24/7!

I also managed to get LIRC working in RuneAudio so I can use the remote for play/pause/next/etc as well as powering up and down.

I was going to post the scripts here but I am guessing that peeps don't want to see all that so I'll PM you the details (and anyone else that wants them). I have sent them to Matt at MSL and he is going to post the instructions on the support pages for the RemotePi.

One thing for everyone that is using RuneAudio though...

SSH into you Rune box and run the following 2 commands:

syslemctl stop netctl-auto@wlan0
systemctl disable netctl-auto@wlan0

Your RuneAudio box will go from taking about 2 minutes to boot to about 20 seconds!

Best Regards

Guy

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