chill wrote: > > There IS an apparent difference from the line out card, in that some of > the pCP menus are more sluggish, especially the Sqeezelite page. > ....... > So maybe there is a hardware difference with this version of the card. > ..... > Hi Chill, There is likely a bit of difference in the boards that needs attention on the SW side. With a bit more attention to the music rather than the working of display and buttons, I found the 3W version does not output sound properly using either the generic TI5102 and the HiFiBerry DAC Zero/MiniAMP driver. Left channel does output normally, however the right channel does output at a lower level, and does output content for left channel too. Is if the right channel is in mono mode and adding the 2 signals together. I tested this with a few right-left test files. I did verify the bottom side slide switch is in the stereo ( dual speaker ) mode. I do not know what DAC is used on this card , as I need microscopic photography to read the chips. But it looks like they used 2 separate driver chips, and perhaps 2 separate dacs built in to them. Perhaps the HW switch needs software support in the driver. As I don't own an other pirate radio version, I can't verify much in that range. But I swapped to the Phat Beat in place ( same pi, same SD ) Then there are no issue's and with both driver sets.
Your reported slowness on the display is observed too. About 60 seconds into the first song, the display starts jivelite. The observed instability is most likely a connection issue, They always happen when I handled the set. But with working display and buttons I saw the red WIFI icon appear in te lower right corner, and I still could navigate to the settings-extra-picoreplayer-reboot command, and it restored everything. I will solder a header, and move to a zero W to get rid of the external dongle, and issue ( hopefully ) M-H Pi based multi-room audio system powered by PiCorePlayer(s): Pi3B with Phat-dac in a Rasptouch, 2 pi B+ with Cirrus Logic Audio Card, Pi Zero with Phat-beat , and a few other tests... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ M-H's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66156 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111502 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
