Daphile - Audiophile Music Server & Player OS

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Older Daphile versions will not work at all on UEFI, newer ones will boot fine on either. In either case problems will not be localised to Wifi.

A reinstall can refresh corrupted files and might be a decent starting point if your library is not too big. If you want to do that, just booting off a USB stick with Daphile, configuring your wifi and checking performance will give you a good idea if a reinstall is needed.
 
#4,722
Good call on booting off USB. I tried both the most recent stable and beta, and no joy. It'd connect to the network, but wouldn't load any pages. At least that saved me from wasting time on doing a reinstall.
Since 5GHz works, I guess I'll just stick with it - any further troubleshooting is probably way above my skillset and desire to even do it
 
#4,723
Hi
Can you tell me what you use as a wifi chip that works as a hotspot with Daphile ? (impossible to find a list of compatible hardware, and the site does not answer anymore, only in automatic)

With my old pc, it worked perfectly, now with 3 different chips, not:

Realtek 8822BE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC
Realtek RTL8192CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 card
RTL8188CE

apparently a real problem Daphile and Realtek chips...so I have no luck.

otherwise do you know how i could access the linux config of daphile and try to manage the problem ? apparently there is no terminal in daphile (Alt + F1 (or Ctrl + Alt + F1 ?)) ?

I would like to control daphile with my smartphone ;-)..I have the hotspot but impossible to connect.

Thank you!
 
#4,725
Daphile uses a single volume control for all presented outputs of an audio device. It also needs to be able to recognise each physical output of the card, which it might not be able to do without an appropriate Linux driver.

If you can see the headphone output but cannot control the volume, try setting both LMS and Daphile controls to allow the volume control to work. The default is for fixed volume. LMS software control isn't the best, so this is not a recommended mode of operation.
 
#4,726
Sangram said:
Older Daphile versions will not work at all on UEFI, newer ones will boot fine on either. In either case problems will not be localised to Wifi.

A reinstall can refresh corrupted files and might be a decent starting point if your library is not too big. If you want to do that, just booting off a USB stick with Daphile, configuring your wifi and checking performance will give you a good idea if a reinstall is needed.
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I tried booting off a Mint USB over the weekend, and ran into pretty similar issues using 2.4GHz. It would connect to the network, but loading websites was painfully slow (this site took 1-2 min. to load) and when it finally did load, it was basically unformatted text. I did try some basic troubleshooting - changing DNS servers, but no joy.
I realize that this is now beyond the scope of this thread, but I was wondering if you or anybody else would say if it is worth troubleshooting further, or if it's probably a hardware issue and I should cut my losses
(just a reminder 5GHz seems to work fine)
 
#4,729
I have three Daphile installations, of which at least two have wifi capabilities. One is an Intel AC card from 2011 (have no memory of the card), and another uses the inbuilt wifi in a NUC - and I'm pretty sure this uses a Realtek chip. OTOH the Intel chip in my MSI Modern14 is not detected by Daphile and there is no way to set up the network without a USB-Ethernet cable or external adapter.

Daphile has not been updated in almost two years now, so even if Linux supports some of the newer chips, you won't have any luck getting them to work in Daphile. Secure boot and secure access to hardware has changed a lot of things, expect to stay stuck unless you regress to older hardware or wifi adapters.
 
#4,730
yes but my chips are old...and the last Daphile is from the 22/10/2022 ;-)
but lot of realtek chips are a problem apparently..it's a shame because most of the wifi chips are from realtek !
but nobody knows linux enough to fix it ? the same problem with raspberry too..
 
#4,735
latest beta-version has a Realtek-driver added to it:

2022-10-22 beta version 22.10-b220931 (x86_64, x86_64-rt & i486) changes:
  • New feature: Metadata editor for the CD Ripper
  • Kernel update to 5.15.74 and 5.15.74-rt52
  • WiFi driver for RTL8188GU (RTL8710B)
  • Component updates and some bug fixes
  • This is a release candidate for the next stable version

So, check if your Realtek-chip will be supported by this driver. (Google is your friend if you know where to look 😛)

BTW, older Realtek chips are also a problem with multiple linux distributions (especially with kernel version 5.x). I've tried to add the recommended drivers to linux in the past on older PCs, but that's not always successful. Some chips seem to be recognized, but will not respond to low-level commands such as switching the port to up or down state. The port stays unresponsive whatever you try.
 
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Triplefun said:
Is anyone having phase issues with the latest release. I seem to have lost imaging with no central presence - just a really wide sound.
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I have since executed more analysis. I first did an AB comparison with Roon when it first became noticeable. Then tried a different version of Daphile on a different computer. The Jan 2021 beta was better but the issue was still there. I am using a high end speaker system, not headphones.

I wonder if the Daphile default has been set to binaural?
 
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