Hi,
I’m happy to announce, that volumio 2 is now running on cubox-i (iMX6 devices).
Due to dependencies, the stock kernel 3.14 could not be used.
Volumio is using kernel version 4.7.2 instead, this means currently headless (no graphical support).
I have a first version running smoothly with a usb dac.
There is an issue with spdif output which needs to be solved (driver loaded, but no sound).
No ETA yet, as this needs to be fixed and more testing needs to be done.
A big THANKYOU to forum member Gribouille, who lent me a cubox-i2ex to configure the kernel, u-boot and develop the build scripts.
Thank you so much for all the time and effort you are taking to support the Cubox-i. I had given up hope of finding a use for my i2 so this has really made my day. Hopefully spdif support will arrive for Christmas.
A few things that I noticed while trying out V 0.991 on Cubox-i2eX with USB-DAC ‘QNKTC’
playing mp3 from USB and “Internal Storage” works ok
playing flac from USB and “Internal Storage” works ok
initial startup-sound playing ok
no sound output, or error message with radio stream mms://apasf.apa.at/fm4_live_worldwide which worked fine on 1.5 Although the Stream is shown as being played, the Play button is not changing into the Stop/Pause button. Stream plays ok with VLC on same network. Could this maye be a timeout issue, as the stream used to take about 10 seconds to start playing with V1.5?
Webradio: Shoutcast and Dirble folders cannot be opened (I’m unsure if a plugin is needed for that?)
couldn’t locate the right place to copy *.pls Playlists into in order to carry them over from 1.5. On 1.5 I used to copy with Windows via Samba-Share into the Webradio folder. Now there is only a folder ‘Internal Storage’ is this the place, where it is ment to go?
Could not identify proper settings to enable volume control (used to have Mixer type: “Software” in 1.5 which is gone now), tried all options for mixer control.
Volume options / mixer control by default has PCM set. When opening drop-down, “Audio-widget” is shown twice. Once the setting is changed, returning to PCM-Option is not possible, which somehow doesn’t look right.
no sound when streaming via Airplay
currently unable to connect to Synology NAS (NFS), although this might be due to special characters in password. Will test this again tomorrow. Had a similar problem with 1.5.
Also - mount not shown in GUI. Restart also doesn’t help showing mount in GUI
Sorry in advance, should I have listed things that are already known bugs.
What a great re-work of volumio!
First impressions after few hours playing with it on cubox-i2 ultra with Audiolab MDAC (USB)
NAS Mount: NFS share OK, indexing >15k files OK
Startup sound: OK
ssh connection: OK
Album art: in between
files are located on the NAS mount, as “folder.jpg” in their respective album folders.
Can see the images on the playback tab, but not in the library tab (bay album or by artist categories
plugins: ??
Can see none from fresh install (seems OK). No possibility search for it
Reboot: NOK - strange
reboot from web UI. All seems to get back up normally (startup sound) but volumio cannot be reached either via ping or via webUI.
Need to pull power plug to have it be able to reach volumio again
web radios: NOK
added urls from m3u files (known to be working on iTunes, vlc, archphile distro) but got the error it cannot decode the stream
additional package install (apt-get): NOK
want to compile drivers (rtl8812au) for wifi adapter (internal cubox wifi chip has never been good for for me - perf and stability issues)
It points to raspbian repos (correct??) and repos cannot be reached
Any help on this one would be appreciated
I understand the cubox version is a WIP.
Thanx for the great work
First of all, it’s very exciting to see Volumio in progress. So thank you for your great work.
I launched volumio 2 on my Hummingboard i2. I tried with its spdif output only. The good news is It works.
Of course, as it is has already pointed out radio streaming doesn’t work.
Another problem which may be has not been mentioned yet is I’m unable to update a specific folder, the menu has disapeared if I compare to Volumio 1.5. If you receive daily podcasts, it’s not convenient to rescan all the folders when only one folder has changed and must be updated.
So I hope you will find the time to add this function. Thank you again.
We have not finished development on cubox-i as there is still an issue with wifi.
Linux headers should be no problem as we compile ourselves, I might drop them into /usr as a tar-file
If I can supply information, let me know. (BTW: It is recognized on my R Pi, allas without sound)
