However, so far I am nowhere near achieving this dream. I can not even get a radio stream to play. Currently I am connecting with an ethernet cable and I can see Volumio from my laptop but that is it. If I connect speakers via headphone jack or via the above DAC I hear nothing. I’m not even sure if the radio station is playing so I don’t know if the issue is with the installation, the output, or me just being an idiot and not pressing the right button.
I am completely new to linux so I have no idea where to start. Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated. Please explain things to me like I’m 5 though.
Woo! I made a little progress! Some radio stations seems to work and some do not. Current working setup:
Pi B+ connected to network with ethernet cable
Sound playing out of headphone jack connected to headphones (Grado SR80)
Example of working radio station: VeniceClassicRadioItalia
Possibly helpful additional notes:
With the above setup the volume needs to be quite high e.g 90 is a comfortable volume
A working radio station will continue to count the time on the lefthand display, one that does not work will count for a few seconds (e.g 10s) and then reset to 0.
The sound quality with this setup, unsurprisingly, is not good at all. e.g continual hissing sound
DAC also works now. I did not have to do anything. I just plugged it in and it worked. The sound quality is now vastly better. No obvious issues with the sound at this stage but I have not checked very carefully.
No luck with the wifi still. I have absolutely no idea what is wrong, or where to start in trying to fix it.
Thank you very much for helping. I am not very comfortable with terminal but I did manage to ssh in (for people like me who do not know these things, to ssh in, open a terminal and type: ssh -X volumio@put_the_ip_address_here_instead_of_this_text ). Typing
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
I get
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-power off
wireless-essid XXXXXXXXXXXXX
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
I have not had a chance to look through the guides yet but this definitely gives me a place to start so thank you!
so you should have a /etc/network/interfaces like this:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-power off
wireless-essid XXXXXXXXXXXXX
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
and if you have the same problem try to comment out the line containing:
wireless-power off
putting a # in front of the line:
#wireless-power off
My wifi dongle seems to work only with the power managment activated - but I can’t figure out why
Remember that you can check current configured interfaces with the command
