AUDIO+ installation guide

Installation guides
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Audio+ V3 Installation Guide

This is the installation guide for the Audio+ V3.

Quick Start:

Simply insert your Audio+ and turn ON your Raspberry Pi. It will be automatically detected, and you’re ready to go!

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Detailed Installation Steps:

  1. Insert Your Audio+ (while your Raspberry Pi is OFF):

    This setup allows you to still use the fan in the official casing!

  2. Turn ON Your Raspberry Pi (with Pi OS installed, if not already done).

    Once booted up, click on the speaker icon at the top right corner, and select the audio device “snd_rpi…”:
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  3. Test Sound Output:

    • Open your browser and play a YouTube video, or:
    • Open a command line window and type:
      speaker-test -l5 -c2 -t wav
      This will play “front left” and “front right” 5 times.

Manual Installation for Pi OS Lite & Previous Audio+ Versions

If you are using Pi OS Lite or an earlier version of Audio+, follow these steps:

  1. Insert the SD card into your PC/Mac.

  2. Edit the config.txt file or, in Pi OS, type:

    sudo nano /boot/config.txt

  3. Delete the line:

    dtparam=audio=on

  4. Add the line at the end of the file:

    dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac

  5. Save and reboot your system.

For OSMC Users:

Follow the steps in this tutorial to enable your Audio+.

For Volumio Users:

Select the HifiBerry DAC:

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GPIOs Used by RaspiAudio:

  • Check the pinout: Pinout.xyz
  • GPIO21 (pin 40)
  • GPIO19 (pin 35)
  • GPIO18 (pin 12)
  • Ground (connect at least one: pin 6, 9, 14, 20, 25, 30, 34, 39)
  • 3.3v (connect at least one: pin 1, 17)

Other pins are free for your own projects and are available via the 25-pin connector (need to be soldered):

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Hi, on my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 the script says hardware is not supported. What am I doing wrong?
Best regards :slight_smile:

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Are you on Raspbian?

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Yes, I’ve installed Raspian.
cat /etc/os-release gives me following response:

PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)”
NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“11”
VERSION=“11 (bullseye)”

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The installation script have been updated to support 64bits OS and new RPI user policy as the default user ‘pi’ is not creatd by default.
Sorry for the delay.

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Great product! Very high quality and sound. I used it to build a Minidexed Synthesizer.

One little note (this caused me some time and headache to find out):

Unlike the first version the Audio+ V2 needs 5V supply and converts it to 3.3V with its own voltage regulator on the PCB. If you use the Audio+ directly on the Raspberry Pi header, you will be fine and not even notice it.

But I used jumper wires in combination with a breadboard, and if you connect the Audio+ V2 to the 3.3V pin on the pi, it’s not powering up and not working.

Maybe this could be mentioned somewhere. Not a great deal though.

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Thanks for spoting that! I will modify it

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Good morning everyone,
I need some technical information: it would be possible to connect this module to a first generation raspberry (rasperrry pi 1 model B). I tried to follow the pinout but there are differences between the two versions. There is a solution?
In the meantime, thank you and I await news.

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Hi

THis is not easy, but some people did it :

connecting the 3 pins of I2S, GND and 5V
https://fr.pinout.xyz/pinout/raspiaudio_audio

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I have Orange pi lite
I installed the scipt
Plugged the dac
But no sound

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Pls help i have installed the raspiaudio audio+ . The installation went fine but i can’t select the sound hat and obviously cant hear nothing
I have installed the 64 bit version for raspian
Trying in raspberri p 4b

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Hi,

Is it well inserted? have you tried to right click on top right on the speaker and select the audio device?

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Cool thing is the 1B’s had was enough hardware to broadcast on FM. All that was needed was a piece of wire on/in one of the GPIO pins. Really cool someone figure out a converter. :relaxed:

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For Pi 5 with Debian Lite 64-bit, the install script alone does not work.
Follow the “Alternative manual install…” section, and the sound test willl work.

For reference, this is the error before modifying /boot/firmware/config.txt:

$ speaker-test -l5 -c2 -t wav

speaker-test 1.2.8

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
# dtparam=audio=on

Playback open error: -524,Unknown error 524

# Additional overlays and parameters are documented
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thx for sharing your feedback