I’ve been running Volumio on a Pi for about two weeks now. Works great for the most part. One little quirk I notice is that the USB occaisonally disconnects or reconnects (or something), and then ALSA device can’t reload. When this happens and I try to play a track, I get the following message:
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1401:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
Mar 25 17:57 : output: Failed to open “Output” [alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device “hw:0,0”: No such file or directory
Mar 25 17:57 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing “NAS/Shared Music/Paul McCartney/Back in the U.S/14. Lady Madonna.flac”
This brings me to two questions:
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Is there a way to recover from this without rebooting? I’ve tried restarting the alsa-utils service but that didn’t work.
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Is this a bug? Can it be corrected to make the Pi ->-usb->DAC work as plug and play?
Thanks.