Hi there,
I’m trying to install Balenasound to control a bunch of snapcast receivers. The multiroom master device is a Pi Zero 2 W using a USB DAC (I know this is a brand new device so fully aware that I’m beta testing it, but as it seems similar to a Pi 3 in power I figured it’d probably be supported as a multiroom master eventually).
The audio service never gets going. Anyone have any pointers from these logs?
audio --- Audio ---
audio Starting audio service with settings:
audio - pulseaudio 13.0
audio - Pulse log level: NOTICE
audio - Default output: AUTO
audio - Default volume: 75%
audio
audio Detected audio cards:
audio ---nosoundcards---
audio
audio OKW: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
audio W: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
audio W: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
This is resolved! I created a new fleet with the aarch64 architecture (as opposed to armv7hf, as I no longer have any older devices in the fleet) and added the Pi Zero 2 W to that fleet, at which point the ‘audio’ service was able to start.
I then found myself with what looks to be the same “no sound” issue as a bunch of the recent posts, which I resolved by opening a terminal session to the ‘audio’ container, running
pactl list short sinks
to get the sink name for my interface, then running
pactl set-default-sink alsa_output.usb-soundcard-0.analog-stereo-output
to route the audio to the USB DAC. I imagine this won’t survive reboots.
Oops, looks like that killed multiroom (which makes sense), and the sound card’s input (enabled via SOUND_ENABLE_SOUNDCARD_INPUT = 1) is no longer working, after it had been working flawlessly for almost a year.
Hello
Can you please check the device configuration and confirm what value is set for dtoverlay
?
If it is vc4-kms-v3d
i believe you a re running into rpi4: snd_bcm2835 kernel module not being loaded on newer balenaOS versions · Issue #100 · balenablocks/audio · GitHub . If that’s the case, you can either remove the config or set it to vc4-fkms-v3d
You can also refer to Support - Home in the troubleshooting guide.
Let us know if this works