Unofficial Volumio 4 on Odroid boards (M1S/C4/N2/N2+)

Community Portings Odroid
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Beta version starting soon…

EDIT: Due to unforeseen technical issues, the Volumio 4 versions for the M1S, N2 and C4 v4 will be delayed until further notice.

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Reserved

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As it appears, the M1S works with Volumio 4 without any problems sofar on a locally compiled image.
As this will cause no more any extra work getting it ready for the “myVolumio” addition, we can safely add it to the “intended Odroid Volumio 4 community porting” list.

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Can you upload the Volumio 4 image for the Odroidn2 here?

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Hi,
I’m afraid it is not that easy. First, there aren’t any community portings published yet.
Second, I did start on V4 with Odroid N2/C4, but due to technical issues with the kernels used for V3, I am forced to rebuild N2/C4 Odroid plarform support for V4 from scratch.
I’ll be honest, there is no guarantee.
It will probably work, best case perhaps not for everyone, especially re. start/stop power button.
ETA: not for a while, end Q1 2026 earliest.

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Oh, okay. Thank you for your very interesting information about Project V4 and Odroid N2/C4. We wish you continued success and all the best. It will be exciting to see how the project progresses.

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Some positive progress on Odroid N2/N2+ with Volumio 4, from scratch with a new kernel.
Overall stable, no hiccups, stalls, crashes.

  • HDMI Audio working
  • Lineout (Headphone) working
  • SPDIF working, configurable from GPIO pin 7 (default) to J7 header, pin 2
  • USB Audio working, incl. up-to-date support for registered DSD capable devices, synced with fixes from ‘Volumio for x86’ and all Volumio devices (Rivo/ Motivo/ Primo etc.).

[Note]
There is an issue with the power-up/ power-down button feature as known from the V3 version, for which I currently have no fix and may not be able to solve at all (pending Hardkernel).

[Other Odroid devices)]
Odroid C4 now seams feasible, work will continue, incl proprietary hifi hat devices. [correction: if, then only HIFI Shield 2 will be prepared, which also means untested as I don‘t own any shields]
Hope is for spdif on J7 header, pin 2, but not confirmed working yet.

Odroid M1S was verified, already works as expected.

Odroid C5 will never be supported (by me)

  • lacking basic audio features (no lineout, hdmi, spdif or i2s out)
  • “usb audio”-only does not cut it, there are loads of other boards doing better
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I hope can download to install for My Odroid N2.

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@rong70 and other readers,
My post was to indicate that things are going forward. However, there is no ETA yet.
Please do not expect anything in the near future, because of dependencies and my limited time. My opinion: at least not before mid April. But as a cookie: there will be an early, working N2(+), C4 and M1S beta very soon to confirm Volumio 4 for odroids is coming.
Btw. the delay affects all/most Community portings.

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