Allo Digione

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    Hi, Just replaced HiFiBerry Digi+ with ALLO DigiOne sound card. Installation process was straightforward for the HiFiBerry Digi+ but can't find the procedure for the ALLO DigiOne. Even Allo don't know. Anyone know the words to use on the ssh for Libreelec?

    Thanks

    Aland

    If the card doesn't have an eeprom with the dtoverlay (so it's automatically enabled) you could try adding this to your config.txt (remove the old dtoverlay=hifiberry... line first)

    Code
    dtoverlay=allo-digione

    so long,

    Hias

    Thanks Hias works great. Had to do a clean install of Libreelec. Not sure why it wouldn't work on original, I removed the hifi berry overlay

    Cheers

    Aland

    Hi,

    My Allo DigiOne make no sound. I installed the driver by adding dtoverlay=allo-digione to the config.txt. The driver loads ok;

    here is the lsmod output:

    Module Size Used by

    8812au 1175200 0

    snd_soc_bcm2835_i2s 5981 2

    snd_soc_wm8804_i2c 1344 1

    snd_soc_wm8804 7674 1 snd_soc_wm8804_i2c

    snd_soc_allo_digione 3285 1

    snd_soc_core 110897 3 snd_soc_wm8804,snd_soc_allo_digione,snd_soc_bcm2835_i2s

    cfg80211 247930 1 8812au

    snd_compress 7863 1 snd_soc_core

    snd_pcm_dmaengine 2943 1 snd_soc_core

    snd_pcm 68095 5 snd_soc_wm8804,snd_pcm_dmaengine,snd_soc_bcm2835_i2s,snd_soc_core

    rfkill 13757 3 cfg80211

    spi_bcm2835 6050 0

    bcm2835_gpiomem 2652 0

    snd_timer 17901 1 snd_pcm

    i2c_bcm2835 5165 0

    snd 41825 5 snd_compress,snd_timer,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm

    fixed 2407 2

    Any suggestion how to get the board to work?

    Thanks,

    The LibreElec doesn't let to passthrough to the DigiOne board. With a few tricks I was able to enable the Passthrough 5.1 to Kodi. I did the following steps:

    1) Installed Volume latest build

    2) Added Kodi

    3) Enable i2c audio, and selected the Allo DigiOne

    4) Tested Audio with Volume - > Music works

    5) Tested music with Kodi - > Music didn't work

    6) Copied the file /usr/share/alsa/cards/IQAudIODigi.conf to /usr/share/alsa/cards/AlloDigiOne.conf

    7) Edit the AlloDigiOne.conf

    <confdir:pcm/iec958.conf>

    AlloDigiOne.pcm.iec958.0

    ..

    ..

    8) Re boot

    9) Open Kodi System-Audio-> Passthrough; I can select the ALSA:snd_allo_digi,S/PDIF

    10) Enabled all options (my audio processor can handle all formats)

    And the Allo is passing through 5.1 charles at 192kh/24bit

    My next step is to try and replicating this with LibreELEC. To add the new file, I need to update the read-only image. I got stuck with installing

    squashfs-tools addon.

    squashfs howto - make changes the read-only filesystem in OpenELEC - andreierdei

    I would prefer if the LibreELEC developers could comment, and perhaps configure and test these steps and procedure with an official build.

    AlleyCat

    The loaded modules look fine. Does it show up in Settings->System->Audio and can you select it as an audio output device?

    If yes and you still get no output (eg the GUI sound clicks) please use the Log Upload option in LibreELEC settings to upload full system logs.

    so long,

    Hias

    AlleyCat just saw your additional comment (maybe it was held back for moderation?)

    Non-working passthrough and missing alsa card conf sounds familiar... Blame it on the RPi sound card manufacturers who build a plethora of cards based on the same chip (wm8804 in your case) and choose to write separate sound card drivers with different card names instead of using unified drivers per chip. And blame it on the RPi kernel maintainers for accepting that stuff in their tree - this is not allowed in the upstream Linux kernel for very good reasons (you just noticed one of these).

    Anyways, could you test if this build works?

    LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel-20180403014343-r26324-gd125c30462.tar


    so long,

    Hias

    Quote from calabuig

    I must activate debug logging, start the playing, stop it and upload the log, right?

    Yes, please enable debug logging, reboot, then play a file, then upload the log.

    It's important to have debug information of kodi startup as well, therefore the need to reboot.

    so long,

    Hias