no sound from RPi Zero W / Allo miniBOSS

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Hi,

I just received two Allo systems preconfigured with Volumio. I’m wrestling with both. In both instances I am trying to run Wireless. I’ve gotten the RPi 3+ w/ Allo BOSS working but am having what I believe to be WiFi connectivity issues. The setup is tightly enclosed in Allo’s beautiful aluminum box. I suspect it is blocking the WiFi signal despite Allo assuring me that it wouldn’t be a problem. No conclusion on this one yet. I will let folks know when I solve that problem.

Sidestepping signal strength issues, I started working on the RPi Zero W / Allo miniBOSS setup. It appears to work, but I am not getting any sound out.

I am running a freshly downloaded (today) version of Volumio - System Version 2.502.

In configuring the DAC, I selected Allo BOSS as there was no mini BOSS option to select. I’m wondering if this is the problem.

In reviewing logs (journalctl | grep -i boss) , the snd-allo-boss-dac driver threw some errors:

kernel: snd-allo-boss-dac soc:sound: ASoC: CODEC DAI pcm512x-hifi not registered - will retry
kernel: snd-allo-boss-dac soc:sound: snd_soc_register_card() failed: -517
(repeats 3x)
kernel: snd-allo-boss-dac soc:sound: pcm512x-hifi <-> 20203000.i2s mapping ok
alsactl[447]: No state is present for card BossDAC
alsactl[447]: Found hardware: “BossDAC” “” “” “” “”
alsactl[447]: No state is present for card BossDAC

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Eric

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Ok. Making some progress.

I happened to buy two of the Rpi Zero W / Allo miniBOSS packages. One of them works just fine. I followed identical configuration steps. (Different system names obviously.)

An additional symptom - I hear a single soft click when I select a Web Radio station to play on the web interface. So, it’s trying. But no success.

Any ideas?

Eric

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Hi Eric

How did you solve the “no sound” issue with the Raspberry Pi Zero with MiniBoss setup?

I’m having the same problem. Everything seems setup fine . . . but when I click “play” nothing happens.

(If an obvious/quick solution doesn’t show up, I’m going to see what logging shows.)

Thanks

Chris

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Did you ever solve this issue?

I just downloaded the latest version of Volumio (192.168.100.113) to use with my Pi Zero W and miniBoss since Spotify wasn’t working with the older version.

I selected the Allo Boss DAC as that is what I had done previously and it had been working fine with the older version of Volumio. Now I couldn’t get any sound out of it. I went through setup steps, installed the Spotify plugin and rebooted. Still nothing. Tried to reboot again and couldn’t get Volumio in my browser so did a hard restart unplugging the power cord. The next time it booted up sound was working fine.

Hopefully this info is useful to somebody.