I have a Wolfson DAC sitting on top of my Pi (model B) and have just installed Volumio 1.4. However I’m struggling to get any audio out of the Wolfson (I used it previously on an installation of Squeezeplug on the same Pi so I’m confident that the DAC is healthy). All I get at the moment is audio through the HDMI.
I’ve looked at the list of compatible I2S drivers (connecting to the Volumino interface through a web browser) but there is no driver for the Wolfson listed even though it does appear on the list of supported cards.
Sorry if this is a dumb newbie question. I’d be grateful if someone has the answer.
I think the ‘list of supported cards’ is for those supported by the Raspberry Pi, not Volumio. The Wolfson DAC requires its own drivers to work, and those drivers are not included with the default distribution of Volumio, probably because the Wolfson drivers are also not included in the standard distribution of Raspian (on which Volumio is based).
Some guys in this forum have put together versions of Volumio including the Wolfson drivers, as maestroji has mentioned. You can use those to get your Wolfson DAC to work with Volumio.
Sorry I’m wrong, get it wrong I thought that talking about the general i2s DAC of WOLFOSN, not for this card, which is essentially sound card codec, and not simply an application DAC , so actually we don’t speak about a i2s compatible DAC , but for a small sound codec card … and yes i think need specific drivers
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