Volumio 3 Buster Beta for RPi

Hi

Just an information
On a Raspberry 3 with Suptronics X5000 box, amp & dac, a Realtek USB dongle not supported out of the box
a. downloaded the 083 version
b. downloaded, compiled the specific driver thanks to advices from this forum

sudo wget http://downloads.fars-robotics.net/wifi-drivers/install-wifi -O /usr/bin/install-wifi
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/install-wifi
sudo install-wifi

c. it worked
d. activated the /dev or /test to have access to the latest version directly from the GUI
e. Everything is working OK for the update and Wifi driver.

= It is a ā€œeverything Ok on my sideā€ for this system. Happy to see i donā€™t have to recompile the driver for each development version with the /dev update

Knowing, that, i might put the /dev version of Volumio 3 on a Raspberry 3 with Kali recloker and Piano 2.1 if somebody would like to have info about Dual Mono issues being there or not.
Would consider it if somebody is interested to see whatā€™s going on.

All in all, have a nice day

IMPORTANT for Volumio 3 beta testing

Since Volumio 3 Beta 3.079 a number of unstable test images have been pushed into OTA (and the download area). The development has reached the stage, where the team is forced to use the official Release Build to test final issues, this appears not quite trivial. Most testers have set their installation in ā€œTestā€ mode (which was suggested and not corrected by the team afterwards). OTA ā€œTestā€ mode has always shown all images, including untested or even worse, non-functional test ones.
Some versions were also published in the forum threads which should not have happened, the team apologizes for all that. There was a warning for non-working images from the start (read the announcements), so hopefully you understand and bear with us.

Change of Volumio 3 Beta Policy
Volumio will continue to release images for Volumio 3, but will now make a firm difference between ā€œbetaā€ and ā€œalphaā€. Therefore the team would like you to do the following:

  • Unset ā€œTestā€ (OTA) mode and do not set unless instructed in certain circumstances. This will prevent you from getting unstable alpa builds.
  • Please do not forget to unset afterwards when such an exception was the case.

OTA ā€œTestā€ mode ā€œdisabledā€ (beta) will get you a Volumio 3 beta build which is at least tested by the alpha testers.

OTA ā€œTestā€ mode ā€œenabledā€ (alpha) can still be used (we advice against), but please be aware and understand: do NOT start forum discussions or ask for support.
Unless: in pre-communicated, pre-selected circumstances (e.g. where we would like you to re-test a reported issue before releasing it as stable beta).

Final Beta Testing notice
The Volumio team has had many, many reports where people do not send any information at all, let stand the version of the beta software they are testing with. Please give the team a chance to help with our problem. ā€œLatest versionā€ has no value, two days later ā€œlatestā€ may be moot, remember, you agreed to help the team. It is not the developer job to chase the version you may have meant, he needs facts.

Also, whenever possible, add a log for the team to work on, the more logs they have, the higher the chance to get the issue resolved. Preferable from a fresh reboot, with minimal steps to reproduce the problem :slight_smile: Learn about it here

Fututure development
The Volumio team is aware of the fact, that the current separation of test and production system is not ideal and does not match the complexity of Volumio as it became. The team has a plan and is working on improving it, but does not want to introduce any change at this moment which would further delay an initial Volumio 3 release.

When Volumio 3 is released, the stable channel will only contain official Volumio 3 releases, and an additional alpha and beta channel will be added.

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Hi,
If I have understood correctly
If I disable test mode , will I still be able to receive updates only that this one are tested - - Bettaā€“?
Thanks

Yes, if you disable the ā€œtest modeā€ you get the beta builds via ota updater.

How i understand it, is when the ā€œtest modeā€ is enabled, you will get developement builds, which are not intended for end user/beta testers.

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What is the current beta version? Iā€™m on 3.094, which I assume is an alpha version. The only issue I have with 3.094 is sometimes it takes forever for the music to start playing, but this is an issue I have with all versions of Volumio.

Hi.

Sorry for the misunderstanding on the use of /test & OTA.
Anyways

Shared a bug with log file here http://logs.volumio.org/volumiobuster/A8ubfaX.html

Hardware
Raspberry V3
Kali Reclocker + Piano 2.1
Suptronics X850 V3.1 = controller USB mSATA SSD
Not supported Out of the Box Wifi dongle with Realtek driver

Software
Volumio V3.083

Software, what works what doesnā€™ t
a. Wifi dongle OK after downloading the driver, and so on
b. Piano 2.1 in Dual Mode is picked up by the system. I can save the settings. (good compared to previous Volumio 2 after version 699. I stayed on that one for this system)
c. SSD is not recognized as USB connected hard drive (mSata Sandisk X300 512Gb)
d. Web radio donā€™t play, red rectangle appears on the top right " "****failed to open ALSA device volumio. No such device"****" (couldnā€™t try music since local drive is not recognized)

Thatā€™s it.
Hope it is Ok as reporting

Allo USBridge - hardwired network-asix driver installed
topping d90 DAC
3.101 - via ā€œinternet updateā€

I primarily want to use Tidal Connect MQA and purchased my Allo USBridge when I heard Volumio supported this.
Earlier Beta/Alpha versions were a mixed bag. Recent versions were unusable for Connect. In native Tidal tracks sometimes had garbled beginning/ending few seconds of a track, but besides that were actually playing nicer with my DAC than ever before in the ā€œmiddleā€ of tracks. Iā€™d had issues where randomly during a track I would experience ā€œcracksā€ in the sound and sometimes my DAC display would momentarily change to display bit rate and MQA indicator would change to PCM, these issues seem to have come back in this version.
This version seems a bit of a step back, but generally welcome one. Hopefully some of the encouraging things I was seeing in how Volumio was playing with my DAC can come back in a more stable package that also plays well with Tidal Connect.

{ā€œstatusā€:ā€œplayā€,ā€œtitleā€:ā€œBegginā€™ā€,ā€œartistā€:ā€œMneskinā€,ā€œalbumā€:ā€œChosenā€,ā€œalbumartā€:ā€œhttps://resources.tidal.com/images/9bcc5309/fc1d/4c81/9bf7/b29285b6b52d/1280x1280.jpg",ā€œuriā€:ā€œā€,ā€œtrackTypeā€:ā€œtidalā€,ā€œseekā€:198449,ā€œdurationā€:212,ā€œsamplerateā€:"44.1 KHzā€,ā€œbitdepthā€:ā€œ16 bitā€,ā€œchannelsā€:2,ā€œrandomā€:false,ā€œrepeatā€:false,ā€œrepeatSingleā€:false,ā€œconsumeā€:false,ā€œvolumeā€:100,ā€œmuteā€:false,ā€œdisableVolumeControlā€:true,ā€œstreamā€:false,ā€œupdatedbā€:false,ā€œvolatileā€:true,ā€œserviceā€:ā€œtidalconnectā€}

Tidal connect isnā€™t stuttering anymore :slight_smile: Figured Iā€™d post some good news for a change.

However being able to see my Volumio device on the Tidal Desktop App is hit or miss. I can see it however on the Tidal Mobile App for Android. (both devices are on the same wireless network, and the multicast packets / mdns is going across the wire, wireless, and vlans)

Funny thing is, if you open the desktop application and then open the mobile app. It then sees the volumio Tidal Connect interface lol. My guess is that the mobile app makes a request to see if there are any Tidal Connect devices out there and volumio says hi! Iā€™d have to flip on wireshark again to see whats up. Let me know, happy to help :slight_smile:

Volumio 3.083 also verified and noticed that some error in

/volumio/app/plugins/system_controller/i2s_dacs/dacs.json file alsacard parameter missing so its wrongly configuring the card name in /etc/asound.conf
need to nano /volumio/app/plugins/system_controller/i2s_dacs/dacs.json as below

{ā€œidā€:ā€œpiano-dac-plusā€,ā€œnameā€:ā€œAllo Piano 2.1ā€,ā€œoverlayā€:ā€œallo-piano-dac-plus-pcm512x-audioā€,ā€œalsanumā€:ā€œ2ā€,ā€œalsacardā€:ā€œPianoDACPlusā€,ā€œmixerā€:ā€œDigitalā€,ā€œmodulesā€:"",ā€œscriptā€:"",ā€œneedsrebootā€:ā€œyesā€},

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please reread this important notice to all beta testers

To avoid further confusion, please unset Test mode if you have not done so already.
That way you will avoid stumbling over insufficiently tested or non-working alpha versions.
As @mervinio explained, sometimes you may specifically be asked by the developers to set Test mode and OTA to re-test a feature that you reported broken or not working correctly in a beta version.

Please hold on a little more, a new beta will arrive and be announced soon.

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There is a new beta version available, download it from this location:

Volumiobuster-3.101-2021-09-08-pi.zip

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Does the new beta have plugin support allready? (Saw some commits regarding those on GitHub)

No, that is stil WIP.
There is progress, first alpha testing started, but it is not ready for field testing.

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With the new Version 3.101 volumio plays no file anymore. It restart all the time.

Try to send log http://logs.volumio.org/volumiobuster/27xPVrp.html

Here last lines from ā€˜journctlā€™

!!EDIT: After restore system all works again

Sep 28 17:02:55 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Stopping Music Player Daemon...
Sep 28 17:02:55 livingfoxi systemd[1]: mpd.service: Succeeded.
Sep 28 17:02:55 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Stopped Music Player Daemon.
Sep 28 17:02:55 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Starting Music Player Daemon...
Sep 28 17:02:56 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Stopping Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver...
Sep 28 17:02:56 livingfoxi systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Succeeded.
Sep 28 17:02:56 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Stopped Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver.
Sep 28 17:02:56 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Started Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver.
Sep 28 17:02:57 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Stopping Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver...
Sep 28 17:02:57 livingfoxi systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Succeeded.
Sep 28 17:02:57 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Stopped Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver.
Sep 28 17:02:57 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Started Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver.
Sep 28 17:02:57 livingfoxi mpd[3109]: Sep 28 17:02 : exception: Decoder plugin 'wildmidi' is unavailable: configuration file does not exist: /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg
Sep 28 17:02:58 livingfoxi mpd[3109]: Sep 28 17:02 : exception: Input plugin 'tidal' is unavailable: No Tidal application token configured
Sep 28 17:02:58 livingfoxi mpd[3109]: Sep 28 17:02 : exception: Input plugin 'qobuz' is unavailable: No Qobuz app_id configured
Sep 28 17:02:58 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Started Music Player Daemon.
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Stopping Volumio Streaming Daemon...
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi systemd[1]: volumio-streaming-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi systemd[1]: volumio-streaming-daemon.service: Succeeded.
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Stopped Volumio Streaming Daemon.
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi systemd[1]: Started Volumio Streaming Daemon.
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi volumio-streaming-daemon[3144]: ############################
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi volumio-streaming-daemon[3144]: # Volumio Streaming Daemon #
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi volumio-streaming-daemon[3144]: # Running on port 7777     #
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi volumio-streaming-daemon[3144]: ############################
Sep 28 17:03:06 livingfoxi volumio-streaming-daemon[3144]: Environment: production
Sep 28 17:03:08 livingfoxi volumio-streaming-daemon[3144]: Environment: production
Sep 28 17:03:26 livingfoxi systemd-journald[190]: Suppressed 715 messages from volumio.service

cards configuration issue still present in 3.101-2021-09-08-pi.zip version

/volumio/app/plugins/system_controller/i2s_dacs/dacs.json file alsacard parameter not entered for some of the cards. due to this /etc/asound.conf configured with MAX98357A for these cards and alsa error displaying while playing. I hope this will correct in next beta version. I have tested this with Allo Piano 2.1

@volumio @mervinio, is this correct?

I can confirm this behaviour with a Piano 2.1 on a recent fresh flash to 3.101. ā€˜outputdevicecardnameā€™ name in /data/configuration/audio_interface/alsa_controller/config.json was fixed at MAXX98357A regardless of which i2s DAC I selected in the UI. Changing the cardname to ā€˜PianoDACPlusā€™ was a temporary fix.

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FYI, I also had the issue that nothing would play when upgrading from .83 to .101. After a reset it plays again.

Volumio 3.083.
http://logs.volumio.org/volumiobuster/851JLd8.html
Sorry if this has been reported before, but I couldnā€™t find it.

I am trying and failing to change the Wired IP to fixed. After Vā€™ restarts the network it retains the IP on the screen but does not ā€˜connectā€™ and a scan of my network shows that IP is not there.
Also, the wireless connection doesnā€™t show the correct ā€˜Player Nameā€™, just Volumio.

Version 3.083 is not supported, you need to update or flash a new version.
Note, you should disable test mode in order not to end up with unsupported test versions.

Volumiobuster-3.101-2021-09-08-pi

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