Was unsuccessful. Did not boot at all. Black screen, and gave it about 10 minutes.
Hi,
Are you connecting your monitor to the 1st micro-HDMI port on the RPI? The one nearest the usb-c port? That caught me out yesterday - on one test I was getting black screen but it was because I had connected to the 2nd micro-HDMI port.
Have you verified your board boots ok with a flash of latest raspbian OS? And are you seeing rev 1.5 in /proc/cpuinfo file?
Aaaaaaah, that’s a really good point. I’m currently formatting the SD card again and will try again later this evening.
All working!! Thanks for the support
Halleluiah. So glad i found this thread, was going crazy trying to get it to work. Please bare with me as I dont speak computer so may ask some daft questions or use wrong term.
My Pi4 2Gb arrived yesterday, originally was going to try Moode to get up and running but had the 4 slow 4 fast flashing Green LED when turned on and find the support/instructions very unintuative.
I have then Volumio downloaded from the main page same result. - much better instructions and support forum by the way.
Im not known for patience so its amazing that the pi is not currently in pieces with a dent in the wall by now.
Have finally managed to get the Pi working using the Rasberry Pi OS and came across this while the OS was writing.
I expected to access the pi headless and dont have a micro HDMI cable/adapter so now stuck until i can find one locally or get one delivered tomorrow.
I assume the .Zip file in the is thread is different to the one on the main download page? i.e its a trial version?
Can some one advise if a wireless USB mouse and USB keyboard will work with the pi alongside a monitor or do they need to be hardwired?
Once I have a HDMI cable will try the above file and report back
Hi - yes, the version of volumio in the zip file in this topic is v3.194, while on the main download page it is v3.179. If your PI is a v1.5 board like the one I received a few days ago, then you likely have the same issue.
If you have the ability to connect it with wired network connection, you could flash your SD card with v3.194 (the zip on this topic) and boot it with that. Then you can download volumio2 from Google Play store to your phone. It will look for devices on your network and you can just get it going from there, no need for keyboard, mouse, monitor.
I’m sure there is similar for iOS.
I believe you can even do first-time setup headless over wifi, something to do with it appearing as a hotspot - its documented here: Quick Start Guide - Volumio Documentation
I’ve done wired setup without monitor etc and worked well for me.
You can also use any browser you have on a pc, mac, iphone, ipad etc.
Have a quick look at the documentation
Yes, thanks
after I posted I read further through the guide and realised I could just use the network cable - other software options including the working Rasberry OS i was looking at trying to get the thing working required the software to be edited and other software to be used/installed to do that. A coffee and a clear head and having written the updated Volumio OS version provided above to the SD card I have connected via network cable to my laptop and finished the set up including Wifi.
Im currently listening directly out of the Pi via headphones and using Airplay from my phone.
My hifi is currently sitting in boxes - im supposed to be decorating the room - so will have to wait for testing USB out to the DAC till later.
Im not sure how to check whether I have Rev 1.4 or 1.5 but mine will be from the same batch as the OP as it was ordered friday night from pihut and the updated OS seems to be working fine.
As i said earlier great start up guide - if you read it in full! -and fantastic support forum and to have a fix available with in days.
Thanks
Just open a SSH connection to the rPi and type:
pinout
or
cat /proc/cpuinfo
or
cat /proc/device-tree/model
Hey guys,
I had the exact same problem described in the original post and in AgentOrange76’s (might want to rethink that username actually, now that I type it out) reply.
I didn’t want to remove the Pi from the heatsink case to check the board for a revision number due to not having a spare thermal pad, but I also just bought the Raspberry 4 2GB Model and got the same 4x long/4x short LED error code. I can confirm that the test image posted above got rid of the error and allowed a setup as described in the official guide including the Spotify connect plugin.
Thanks a lot!
read the reply above yours. Three ways to determine which version you have…
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You can also use the plugin Systeminfo to get it
So I have opened an SSH connection eventually.
I dont seem to be able to use http://name of volumio that i changed it to in setup when connected by a ethernet cable nor use PuTTy with that name or volumio.
I have managed to find the IP address of the Pi through the phone app and access the via a webrowser. Could then enable SSH and then use the IP address via PuTTY to open the SSH conncetion.
Anyway I have established that I have Rev 1.5 and currently the revised Volumio version is working on the Pi and I can play music via Airplay to the Pi and play radio stations directly. I have no music files, I currently use Amazon music so havent tested Spotify or Tidal Connect (am evaluating them and a potential subscription to Volumio).
Yes
As mentioned by gkkpch you need to add .local to whatever name you chose for your installation. Default is volumio so would be http://volumio.local. If you named it e.g. livingroom it would be http://livingroom.local. It won’t work on android devices - its to do with a protocol called mdns which android doesn’t support. You need to use IP address.
I went into my router admin and set fixed IP address for the volumio device so it will never change. And for any android devices - phone, tablet - went to the http://x.x.x.x address in Chrome to launch volumio and then used the Add to Home screen option to create a permanent shortcut for it.
I signed up for Spotify free for 3 months and love it - the Spotify plugin works well and also the Spotify Connect plugin is another option. It’s not FLAC but sounds like it should arrive this year.
I’d be interested in trying Tidal to see what the difference is in an A/B comparison. But Spotify does feel very flexible and intuitive.
oh - one more thing. It may not be enough to enter volumio.local into your browser url. You may need to include the http:// part as well.
Was using http://name.local and it wasnt working. The name had spaces so have tried with spaces and _ and no spaces. should of stayed with the default but named it so i can clearly see it.
Anyway http://IPaddress works. Tommorrow evenings fun will be setting a default IP.
correct, otherwise the browser has no idea where you’re heading