Unofficial Volumio 3 on Odroid boards (C4/ N2/ N2+/ M1S)

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N2:

 cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

PrimoV2:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

sudo apt-get update fails on both platforms:

volumio@primoV2:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Err:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.38.132 80]
Hit:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
volumio@primoV2:~$

Ok, from what I understood this will now be treated as an urgent problem by the core team. It appears to be a general regression issue for non-PI devices.

Please refer to the Touchscreen Plugin thread, you may get more adequate information there.
Though my personal guess is that more plugins might be affected by this unexpected regression

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the problem of getting packages via apt is solved now, please update to v3.832

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Just found this about the analog audio out on Odroid C4. Does Volumio support this output?

This has been tested and it works, but SQ is another story :wink:
See the Opening Post for a desciption on how to enable it.
Once done, it will show up as an output in Volumio.

Thanks, Gé
Then I will probably use a cheap USB headphone dongle. I have a couple sitting around.

Hello there,

Until now, I have been using Coreelec on my Odroid N2+ to play my audio and video files.
I would like to try Volumio to play DSD streams with my AVC-X4800H. (DoP)
So I downloaded the latest version and installed it on an SD card.
The problem is that after booting with petitboot (micro switch left side), I cannot select the SD card boot partition, the keyboard does not work properly and the system crashes.
Here are the tests I have carried out:

  • Files : Volumio-3.629-2024-02-24-odroidn2.img or Volumio-3.819-2025-07-07-odroidn2.img
  • Burning program : Unetbootin or Suse studio Imagewriter
  • Start with keyboard connected or connected after petitboot
  • Start with SD plugged card or plug the card after petitboot
    I tried a mix off all the above options, unsuccessfully.
    Sometime I get:
Failed to launch petitboot, dropping to a shell
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

I didn’t find any thread about this issue.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

You’re not doing anything wrong, petitboot never supported booting Volumio from the beginning. Best to ask @tobetter (forum.odroid.com) what the problem might be. Nothing wrong with the Volumio image, it works fine on an n2/n2+.
Just make sure the front boot switch is set properly.

Thanks.

What position is the proper? Left (petitboot in my case) or right (boot directly to mmc).

Right, but you could have found out yourself by trying it, no?

My AI told me that I could boot Volumio with petitboot.
I should add these files in the SD card;
boot.ini - Contains petitboot configuration
uInitrd - Initial RAM disk
Image - Kernel image
volumio.current - System configuration file

Is it true? Did you ever try it?
My target is to boot with petitboot without modification of it nor emmc memory.
Thanks

stop believing AI all the time, petitboot is not supported. period.
What AI listed is total rubbish, boot.ini is not petitboot configuration and volumio.current is not system configuration.

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Thanks for the advice.

I suspected it wasn’t true, but I wanted to check.

AI will never replace experienced humans.
BTW, I succeeded to install Volumio 3 in a Raspberry Pi3B

First I want to THANK GKKPCH for all the work he has been and still is doing around the odroids and volumio. I had 2 systems laying around doing nothing (a shame) as volumio was stuck on 1.55 on both the odroids ( C1+ and a C2 both with a hifi board). V2 I remember was totally not stable and I forgot about the boards as my yamaha amp (N800) has its own (really good0 DAC inside and also radio streaming services … but still a shame the boards (and their linear power supplies) getting dusty. I found by accident the version 3 that was ported for the c1+ and for the C2 and … both work flawless and recognised the NAS and the hifi boards and both connected with ethernet and WIFI (!)…
What a great work you did to port the software (I loved the idea about volumio but I had really bad experiences with V2) and you should have a prefix “magician” to your name !
THANKS!

Grand
Kernel
Keeper,
Protocol
Conjuring
Hardware‑Magician

Thank you for the flowers, but I’m afraid I also have some bad news.
C1/C1+ and the C2 are no longer supported, so you are stuck with the current V3 image version. V4 won‘t happen for these devices.
But as long as the boards are fine you should be ok.

Advice: download the zipped image(s) as a backup now, before the V3 image version(s) get removed from the server. This is not planned yet, but better safe than sorry in case your sd or emmc dies.

good Morning from Thailand

I have the 2 files on my NAS in case the software or the emmc fails (I still have some old emmc laying around :slight_smile: ) so I am good
Currently the 2 solutions (ultra linear powersupply -volumio 3 on 2 odroids (c1+ and C2) are ready to be deployed ( probably one in my condo in BKK) whereas the second one will be used in combination of a tube amplifier and speakers to be determined :slight_smile:

the devices are old(er) but working fine and when they go to IT heaven then I will be ready for something more recent. The Yamaha N serier (I have the 800A) has a build-in DAC that is pretty (!) good and there is not a lot of quality difference when playing music and it is pretty convenient if you are ok with a 2.1 system (no surround hahaha and that fits me well) but if volume 4 or 5 arrives on an odroid device like a c4 then I will for sure try it out!

Thanks a again!

Philip