Sound not working with HifiBerry Rapberry Pi 4 with OSMC
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I installed RetroPie on my Raspberry Pi 4 with OSMC in which I installed a wHifiBerry DAC sound card following the following instructions https://forum.raspiaudio.com/t/audio-installation-guide/19. The card works fine with Kodi but I can't get it to work with RetroPie's.
osmc@osmc:~$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 [HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Controller [Wireless Controller], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: vc4hdmi [vc4-hdmi], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0osmc@osmc:~$ aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) btaudio Bluetooth Audio raspiaudio default sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 Default Audio Device dmix:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 Hardware device with all software conversions sysdefault:CARD=Controller Wireless Controller, USB Audio Default Audio Device front:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio Front speakers surround21:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio 2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers surround40:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output dmix:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=Controller,DEV=0 Wireless Controller, USB Audio Hardware device with all software conversions sysdefault:CARD=vc4hdmi vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 Default Audio Device hdmi:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0 vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 HDMI Audio Output dmix:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0 vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0 vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0 vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0 vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 Hardware device with all software conversionswith the alsa mixer command I receive the following response with volume at 100 on master:
Card: snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac F1: Help │ │ Chip: F2: System information │ │ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card │ │ Item: Masterbased on this result I made various settings taking Default as Audio Card and Master as Audio device in EmulationStation. I also made other attempts such as HDMI but without success. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is and how to fix it?
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What exactly doesn't work ? You've only shown what your configuration is and what you've tried, but not the actual problem (i.e. no sound in ES/games/etc/ ?).
Note that the configuration or Audio card/device in EmulationStation apply only to EmulationStation, they're not global. If
alsamixerworks, then you might investigate on how to makesndrpihifiberrythe default audio card - right now it's set as sysdefault, but default is not set. -
@mitu Thank you for your answer.
The actual problem is no sound in ES/games/.On EmulationStation I tried different Sound Settings configurations:
SYSTEM VOLUME: 100%
AUDIO CARD: SYSDEFAULT
AUDIO DEVICE: MASTER
OMX PLYER AUDIO DEVICE: try it all
ENABLE NAVIGATION SOUNDS : On
ENABLE VIDEO AUDIO: OnBut there is no sound from EmulationStation and Games.
The sound card is connected to an external audio amplifier and the strange thing is that if I run a game and turn off the TV after a few seconds I hear the music from the game. If I turn the TV back on I can't hear anything anymore.
I don't know why the sndrpihifiberry is configured as sysdefault and not default, I followed these instructions for the configuration: https://www.hifiberry.com/build/guides/enabling-hifiberries-in-osmc/ and I installed the mixer software:
wget -O - script.raspiaudio.com | bashas recommended by the manufacturer.
Now I don't understand how to configure the sndrpihifiberry default sound card on Osmc and whether this could be the problem or whether I'm doing something wrong.
My current config.txt is:
[pi4] dtoverlay=rpivid-v4l2 arm_64bit=1 kernel=kernel.img [board-type=0x0e] dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-256 [all] dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-512 disable_overscan=1 start_x=1 disable_splash=1 disable_fw_kms_setup=1 hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1 include config-user.txt dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac MPG2=0xXXXXXXXX [pi02] dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-256 dtparam=audio=onThanks in advance...
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The configuration seems ok - in EmulationStation.
Do you get any errors in the log or on the console ? Other programs are working ok - i.e.
speaker-testorvlc/mpv? -
@mitu
in the log or on the console es_log.txt Once I launch a game I find this error:Jan 16 08:41:38 lvl2: Attempting to launch game... Jan 16 08:41:39 lvl2: /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ snes /home/osmc/RetroPie/roms/snes/Donke\ Kon\ Country\ \(U\)\ \(V1.2\)\ \[\!\].zip Jan 16 08:42:06 lvl2: Creating window... Jan 16 08:42:06 lvl2: Created window successfully. Jan 16 08:42:06 lvl2: GL vendor: Broadcom Jan 16 08:42:06 lvl2: GL renderer: VC4 V3D 2.1 Jan 16 08:42:06 lvl2: GL version: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6 Jan 16 08:42:06 lvl2: Checking available OpenGL extensions... Jan 16 08:42:06 lvl2: ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: ok Jan 16 08:42:06 lvl2: Added known joystick Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller (instance ID: 48, device index: 0) Jan 16 08:42:07 lvl2: Added known joystick Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller (instance ID: 48, device index: 0) Jan 16 08:42:39 lvl2: req sound [basic.launch] Jan 16 08:42:39 lvl2: (missing)with speaker-test 1.1.8 I get:
speaker-test 1.1.8 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels WAV file(s) Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) Buffer size range from 128 to 131072 Period size range from 64 to 65536 Using max buffer size 131072 Periods = 4 was set period_size = 32768 was set buffer_size = 131072 0 - Front Left 1 - Front Right Time per period = 0.733552 0 - Front Left 1 - Front Right Time per period = 2.735505 0 - Front Left 1 - Front Right Time per period = 3.408234 0 - Front Left 1 - Front Right Time per period = 2.735147 0 - Front Left 1 - Front Right Time per period = 3.405919from the mixer interface I see the following Tab:
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@Fantasens said in Sound not working with HifiBerry Rapberry Pi 4 with OSMC:
in the log or on the console es_log.txt Once I launch a game I find this error:
That's not an error, they're normal logging messages.
with speaker-test 1.1.8 I get:
OK, so no error, but do you hear the test patterns ?
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@mitu said in Sound not working with HifiBerry Rapberry Pi 4 with OSMC:
with speaker-test 1.1.8
With speaker-test 1.1.8 I only hear the sound if I turn off the TV.
I believe sound comes out of the sound card only when TV is off.
When the tv is turned on it seems that OSMC KODI only uses "vc4-Hdmi".
I tried to configure the sound card but with the TV turned On I can't hear anything anymore.There must be a configuration problem but I can't figure out how to exclude HDMI audio when the TV is on and use soundard card.
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Try making the HifiBerry the default card by adding to
$HOME/.asoundrc:pcm.!default { type hw card 1 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 }See if
speaker-testoutputs directly on the HifiBerry. -
@mitu I tried but it doesn't work,
with the TV turned On the audio can only be heard with vc4-Hdmi settings with the TV turned off however it also works configured as snd_rpi_ hifiberry_dac.I don't understand what causes it...
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Hi, I carried out further investigations and discovered that if I disconnect the optical connection that goes from the TV to the amplifier the audio can be heard correctly even with this setting:
In my configuration the TV is connected with an HDMI cable to the Raspberry and with an optical cable to the audio amplifier (to hear the TV audio on the amplifier when I am not using the Raspberry).
On the Raspberry the sound card output is connected to the amplifier (to hear audio on the amplifier) .
Now when I use Kodi the audio comes out both from the TV and from the Raspberry sound card and I have to lower the TV audio to 0 so as not to hear the sound from both the TV speakers and the amplifier.
Now I noticed that when I launch retropie to hear the sound with TV turned on I have to disconnect the optical cable.
Is there no way to configure Retropie so that it behaves like Kodi by playing audio from both the TV and the Audio card?
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@Fantasens said in Sound not working with HifiBerry Rapberry Pi 4 with OSMC:
Is there no way to configure Retropie so that it behaves like Kodi by playing audio from both the TV and the Audio card?
'RetroPie' - or rather EmulationStation - uses ALSA. If you can configure ALSA so that it behaves like Kodi with the default card/output, then EmulationStation - and probably emulators - are going to work the way you want.
The only configuration for ALSA that RetroPie does is the one from the Audio menu, where you can choose between the audio outputs present on a Pi - Analog/HDMI. For more complex configuration you'll need to configure ALSA yourself.
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