Hi guys, I assembled a Raspberry Pi to stream music to my main system and for the life of my, I can’t get it to work.
I flashed the card with Volumio but can’t connect with the Pi with my phone. Any ideas?
I flashed the card with Volumio but can’t connect with the Pi with my phone. Any ideas?
I'm not a Volumio expert as I use the LMS platform. However, initial check would be to confirm the Pi is actually connected to and visible on your home network. How is the Pi connected to the network, via ethernet? Also of course your phone needs to be connected to the same network (I'm sure you know that already).
It is connected by the home WiFi. I tried LMS but I couldn’t make heads nor tails of it. I’m not a computer guy so that’s a problem too.
Is there a base computer program on the Pi or is it just the LMS or Volumio?
Is there a base computer program on the Pi or is it just the LMS or Volumio?
Ok that's good you know it is connected to your home WiFi.
Assuming you know the IP address of the Pi, typing that into the address bar of your browser gives you an error message? What is that message?
The volumio you burnt to the SD card contains the base os and the volumio system itself I believe.
Assuming you know the IP address of the Pi, typing that into the address bar of your browser gives you an error message? What is that message?
The volumio you burnt to the SD card contains the base os and the volumio system itself I believe.
If you have access to the pi, plug in a monitor to the hdmi port and a keyboard/mouse into the USB ports. The standard pi distribution will either boot into X or a console. If the pi was setup not to "autologin", the default is username pi password is raspberry. Once you've logged in, your in the Linux OS. There are voluminous resources about the pi/Linux. Should also mention you can probably ssh into the pi from another computer. I think it comes that way as standard, although not sure if I set that option when I boot first time or not. And I guess one last option if you happen to have a spare pi is to take the sd card out of the audio server and move it to the spare pi. I'm not sure if you have easy access to the hdmi/usb ports on the box you are using as the music server.
Thanks Gcsa. I had to travel today and will get to it tomorrow. But it's been a while since I worked on this thing.
How are you connecting your RPi to your home network? WiFi? If so, can you connect it to your router through an Ethernet connection, just for testing?
What are you using as a DAC? Do you have a HAT DAC on the RPi? Or are you using a USB DAC?
The reason I ask is that I outfitted my Raspberry Pi 3B+ with an Allo Boss DAC and found that the DAC knocked out my RPi's built in WiFi adapter, so the only way it will connect to my home network with the Allo Boss installed is through Ethernet. If I remove the Allo Boss DAC and use a USB DAC instead, that allows the RPi built in WiFi to work, and then it can connect to the home network through WiFi.
So, it's best to test things with the most basic setup first, which means Ethernet from RPi to home network router first, just for testing. If that doesn't work then it's likely a network setting in Volumio.
Good luck with it.
What are you using as a DAC? Do you have a HAT DAC on the RPi? Or are you using a USB DAC?
The reason I ask is that I outfitted my Raspberry Pi 3B+ with an Allo Boss DAC and found that the DAC knocked out my RPi's built in WiFi adapter, so the only way it will connect to my home network with the Allo Boss installed is through Ethernet. If I remove the Allo Boss DAC and use a USB DAC instead, that allows the RPi built in WiFi to work, and then it can connect to the home network through WiFi.
So, it's best to test things with the most basic setup first, which means Ethernet from RPi to home network router first, just for testing. If that doesn't work then it's likely a network setting in Volumio.
Good luck with it.
Thanks Ron. I have a docking station in my home office. My router is right there too. So I can plug in the either net, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
I’ll do all that Wednesday morning and report back.
I’ll do all that Wednesday morning and report back.
Did you install Volumio to the card via the Volumio web page. ? I found my latest (re) install done on their page was the simplest yet, and they have an embedded image writer thing on there too. It was pretty simple although my Volumio software in my phone was already looking. for the correct IP address.
If you don't know the IP then you need to download an IP scanner into you computer. Scan for the Rpi and then use that IP to look up the Rpi from your phone.
If you don't know the IP then you need to download an IP scanner into you computer. Scan for the Rpi and then use that IP to look up the Rpi from your phone.
Is that IP address fixed or dynamic? I’ll try but I’ve never heard of a router page? Where do I find it?
Option 1 : Check the back side of the router , there will be default IP of your router conf. page , followed by username and password.
Option 2 : use this guide https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-access-your-wi-fi-routers-settings
Option 2 : use this guide https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-access-your-wi-fi-routers-settings
Currently I have a 26-dollar Bluetooth receiver receiving music I'm streaming from my phone. The sound is horrible.
I don't have a HAT DAC. I have a Schiit Modius DAC. Unfortunately, I don't have Ethernet in my music room.
Do you have a windows computer where you are?
Someone mentioned this earlier, however if you don't know the router page, you could try Angry IP Scanner to find out if the Raspberry Pi is connecting and showing an IP address. We use the cable company's router and I don't log into it very often, so this is more convenient to me.
https://angryip.org/
Once you find if it's getting an IP, then try putting that into a browser window and folks can help from there (I am not a Volumioo user).
HTTP://192.168.___.___/
Someone mentioned this earlier, however if you don't know the router page, you could try Angry IP Scanner to find out if the Raspberry Pi is connecting and showing an IP address. We use the cable company's router and I don't log into it very often, so this is more convenient to me.
https://angryip.org/
Once you find if it's getting an IP, then try putting that into a browser window and folks can help from there (I am not a Volumioo user).
HTTP://192.168.___.___/
The volumio Docks say to connect to 192.168.211.1 or http://voluminous.local. Is that the part that’s not working?
If your computer is plugged into the same router, you can see its network info and get an idea of what your router is handing out. Most hand out IPs in the range of 192.168.0.0/16.
If your computer is plugged into the same router, you can see its network info and get an idea of what your router is handing out. Most hand out IPs in the range of 192.168.0.0/16.
