Volumio3 on Radxa RockPi-E - Open Beta test

Community Portings Radxa
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As mentioned in the official announcement, Volumio team is happy to release the Beta Volumio3 porting for the Radxa RockPi-E

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Hardware Specs

  • Rockchip RK3328 Quad-core 64 bit Cortex-A53 processor, frequency up to 1.5GHz
  • Up to 1GB DDR3 RAM
  • One USB 3.0 port
  • Gigabit Ethernet LAN
  • Optional WiFi/BT module
  • Boot from micro-SD
  • Boot from EMMC (with optional module)
  • Onboard DAC with 3.5mm jack
  • I2S Bus exposed on 40-pin GPIO connector, same pinout as Raspberry Pi

Recommended variant for a smooth Volumio experience

  • 1GB RAM
  • WiFi5 (AC) / BT4.2 module

Remarks

  • It is required to connect an IPEX antenna to the WiFi/BT module
  • For installing Volumio on the EMMC module, it is recommended to use the EMMC-to-SD adaptor

Download Links

Version 3.569 - Update Volumio backend, support for Tidal FLAC
Version 3.512 - Update Volumio backend, Supersearch and Infinity playback RC
Version 3.503 - Update Volumio backend, Supersearch and Infinity playback Beta
Version 3.456 - First Beta release

Known Issues

  • The Volumio UI doesn’t work properly if the device is connected to the router with the 100M Ethernet port. Please use the 1000M Ethernet port only.
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New image 3.503 with Supersearch and Infinity playback

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New image 3.569 with Tidal FLAC

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sorry I don’t understand your request

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nanopi r2s might run with the nanopi neo3 image: Semi-Official Volumio 3 on NanoPi Neo2 and Neo3 - #28 by gkkpch, they are extremely close re. device tree. Give it a try.

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Thanks @gkkpch for sending me the 5.875 image for RockPiE

Hello @Darmur
After reading this article, I have purchased a Radxa RockPiE 1Gb (w/o Wifi, w/o BT). I installed the RockPiE image 3.875. The RockPiE booted ok.
I am finding a few quirks

  • The system / network page does not show an IP address
  • Clicking on save for Wired Network results in the following error message:

Network Error Message
Network Error Message2048Ă—2732 180 KB

  • cannot login to Qobuz (button will not open next window)
  • dito for Tidal
  • Roon Plugin installed ok, RockPiE is seen in Roon. Analogue output works through Roon

A log can be found here: http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/kl53CsV.html

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you most probably have a new revision with a different Ethernet IC

please edit the armbianEnv.txt file in the /boot/ partition, and add the overlay “nic-8211f” to the user-overlay list.

user_overlays=nic-8211f

then use the 1GB ethernet port, you should be good to go

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Well, that seems to have done the trick, thank you

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@jacobacci
Did you find a fitting case for this?

@Darmur
Did you add spdif out to this image, did armbian have a dtb overlay for it?

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I ordered the Rock Pi E at digitec. Delivery was from Conrad.
The case was directly from KKSB

The RockPiE via USB to my Neukomm CPD126S sounds outstanding, at least the same SQ as Odroid N2/N2+. Much better than a Raspberry. Not really a surprise, as T+A use it inside a 30k Euro DAC with Ethernet in / USB out. Pls be aware that I have an Exsys EX-1181HMS USB hub between the Radxa and the DAC (which is my standard setup).

The only wrinkle is that the USB out port and the USB-C PSU port are very close together. USB cables with slightly thicker plugs won’t fit without putting strain on the USB-C plug.

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I don’t remember by heart, but I think S/PDIF was already enabled with the armbian kernel package, only the I2S overlay was added

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@darmur Ok, I’ll have a look. As @jacobacci mentioned, for some this could be a good alternative to a much more expensive Odroid N2/N2+.

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I have only used the Radxa Rock Pi E to play music from my Synology NAS / MinimServer so far.
Today I gave it to a friend who tried the following configuration:

Radxa Rock Pi E → Exsys EX-1181HMS USB3 Hub → Neukomm CDA126S DAC/Amp.
He then connected a USB m.2 SSD to the Exsys Hub, but the Rock Pi E did not detect the SSD. Is this by design or a bug?

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Please label the disk as issd

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Seems to work now, thanks