geekroo hardware volume control..

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I’m using a raspberry with a geekroo pi cobbler DAC (hifiberry driver). It sounds great, i’m hearing details i never knew where there…

Sadly, if i select hardware volume control, nothing happens, volumio 1.5 volume knob turns but jumps back to 100%.

Does this dac support hardware control ?? If yes how to set this up. If no, which dacs on the list do ??

I tried software control, but this doesnt work with spotify and i dont like the quality loss…

Wouldnt mind using a motorized analog volume control but wouldnt know how to link ik to volumio…

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Geekroo is the PCM5102A based DAC and therefore no HW volume control.

The IQaudio DACs all use the PCM5122 which has HW volume control. If you want a physical knob then add a rotary encoder - details / code on github.com/iqaudio/tools

Others DAC suppliers for the Pi have started to use the PCM5122 also so you may find they will work too.

Best regards,

Gordon@iqaudio.com

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Redguy,
I just got my PiCobbler DAC and the sound coming out of it is badly wrong. It is garbled and full of static. I am also using the HiFiBerry I2S driver.

Did you have to change any other settings to get things working? What version of Volumio are you running?

Thanks for the help,
Marc