OK, thanks, definite progress, in that, as you say, I can now choose the cirrus card from the drop-down menu; but no sound! Checking that all connections are good, I took the jack out the cirrus line-out, plugged it into the pi headphones socket, and immediately plenty of sound.
Is the fact that the Cirrus card now appears in the Output Device drop-down menu due simply to that userconfig.txt edit, or is it also dependent on the system finding the actual hardware card? (If the latter, we know it’s probably not a HAT connection problem but more likely software configuration?)
PS I’m not needing the SPDIF output as it’s a purely analogue amplifier.
if the card is listed with aplay -l, it means it’s recognized and configured by the OS.
some HATs require to change settings via alsamixer, but not having the board in my hands I can’t tell you what to change
looking at the previous thread from @pauljwells , he downloaded this collection of scripts and run “./Playback_to_Lineout.sh” to have sound coming out from the green connector
I see @pauljwells is posting for a Pi B and with Volumio v. 2.861. Mine’s a B+ running Vol. 3.449 . Could it cause problems to follow his guide step by step?
I later installed v3 without problems. I found the json file mod was not working but I could still get sound. Follow the thread down, it’s a bit of a journey.
Feeling an utter muppet, but having got as far as downloading the .tgz scripts, I couldn’t extract, because I assume at that crucial step after having created the bin folder, you assume everyone will know how to extract to it, as represented by your three dots, but muppets like me, who follow to the dot instructions they don’t fully understand, I simply got “No such file or directory”.
I’m assuming I need to find where the scripts file was downloaded to and extract it to the new bin folder. I can probably work out how to do that, but for fear of screwing up I thought it best to check first.
Thanks. OK, got that done, but now run into a fresh problem: after rebooting I can’t access the web interface any more! It shows up as connected to the router, with same IP address, and I can still connect with SSH, but web interface stubbornly refuses connection. I’ve cleared the cache in Firefox, but still same result: Problem loading page / Unable to connect
I tried finding it with the Android app on my phone too, but nothing found. I don’t understand it.
Could this be related to the changes I’ve made or bad luck timing of a completely separate issue?
It shouldn’t have been caused by anything you’ve done! Try turning off Volumio, phone and router then switching them back on. Wait for the router to come up fully before turning Volumio on.
Finally had success after a fresh install of Volumio. Cirrus card now recognised and outputting that sweet sound. Thanks so much for all the help along the way.
At this stage after a fresh install I was still uncertain about unpacking the tgz file, probably because I’ve not done much moving around of stuff in the terminal. I figured it wouldn’t be necessary to create a bin folder if one wasn’t going to use it for something, so instead of < cd bin > I stayed where I was and ran
< tar -xf cirrus-ng-scripts.tgz -C bin > which did the trick. (And in case anyone else comes to look at this, don’t confuse the bin folder you created with /bin. I did that and had to carefully remove all the cirrus bash scripts from /bin!)
