Audiophonics i-sabre V4 on RPi3B+ => no sound

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Hi to all. My fist message on this board :slight_smile: I’m a very recent recent and happy Volumio user.

I had a RPiB and HiFiBerry DAC+ working great first under M2P and then Volumio. As usual (!) I didn’t listen to my basics (do not change if it is working…) and decided to upgrade…

I have bought a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and a Audiophonics i-sabre V4 (not a typo, it is the V4 and not the V3) and I can’t get any sound out of it :frowning: Audiophonics say that V4 is the same as the V3 with minor position changes for the contacts but it can’t be only that (or my board is half dead).

I tried my “old” HiFiBerry DAC+ on the new RPi3B+ and it is working under Max2Play and Volumio.

I tried the i-sabre V4 on the RPi3B+ under Volumio : no sound. I tried different drivers, settings in the audio page to no go. It thinks that it is playing but there is no music from the loudspeakers of my HiFi amplifier (yes, I tested the cable and my HiFi system and they are working :wink: ). I played around and tried all the options (those indicated for V3) to no go.

I tried them under Max2Play too with the Audiophonics V3 plugin and no sound. With HiFiBerry DAC driver no sound either. I tried different settings in the audio player page to no go. It is not possible to use the M2P as a DLNA renderer either. foobar2000 sees the player, starts “playing” and 1 sec later, the cursor stops. No sound ever came out of the speakers.

The power button and LED are working.

Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated.

Rob

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Hi,

Did you check if 7Vdc power supply have enough power ?

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Thanks for the idea. I had not thought of the power supply as a possibility.

It is the power supply that Audiosonics propose (6v 3A) with their kit. The R Pi 3B+ is correctly powered. I’ll have a look to the power output to see if anything funny happens there.

I’ve sent the i-sabre V4 back this morning and they’ll test and replace it if needed.

Rob

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I shipped the i-sabre V4 card back and they said that they had found the fault in the card. They’ll send me a new one after testing it at their end first :wink:

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Follow-up :

The new i-sabre V4 card has arrived and everything is working great. It was just a faulty card.

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:laughing:
That’s great. Good luck with your project.