Roscoe Primrose wrote:
Grover Gardner wrote:
The one isssue with the Allo is the ethernet driver, which is tricky if you want to stream all the way up to DSD. The current versions of Moode and Volumio ahve the correct driver and work fine. In gentooplayer, the standard kernel works fine, but some of the RT kernels do not. The latest version of DietPi also works.
For most of us the setup would not be a challenge, but Jim quickly loses patience with computer/network issues.
At this point, I can see where Jim got frustrated. I've spent a good part of the last couple days playing with it, and I can get it playing PCM just fine up through 24/192, but DSD64 & DSD128 have low level static mixed in with the music when played back... Same symptoms with a minimal install of raspberrypi OS (formerly raspian) and both the version of DietPi that's available on the allo downloads page, and the much more recent version on the dietpi website. I have yet to get a response from the web GUI on any distro....
On another note, I think the cooling is inadequate as well. Every time you ask it to do anything other than stream music, it lights up the hi-temp icon on the monitor, and it's running 53C CPU temp when idle, which is 18C higher than the CPU in the Wyse 5070 that's currently streaming..
Roscoe
Well, we didn't even get that far. Just getting it set up was too much for him.
What DAC and software player are you using? I don't have any problem connecting to any of the web guis.
DietPi uses GMRenderer as the renderer, and it won't do DSD on the Allo. Gentooplayer works fine but it isn't free, though you can get a free trial. Moode Audio works okay, IIRC. I'll do some tests this evening. Volumio *used* to work fine but the new distro won't recognize the clean USB output. I'll dig around and see if I can find an older distro that works.
So, yes, it's a bit frustrating. It's the ethernet drivers required for the Allo board that are the main problem. A standard RPi distro won't work very well. The Gentooplayer developer works very hard to accomodate the Allo and has a specific build for it.
I'll play around a bit more tonight.