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I use the first Pi-Zero with the HiFiBerry DAC+ Zero Hat to connect to a Boombox Xtreme that I had around already. For connecting another Pi-Zero to my Hifi, I

I use the first Pi-Zero with the HiFiBerry DAC+ Zero Hat to connect to a Boombox Xtreme that I had around already. For connecting another Pi-Zero to my Hifi, I used the `HiFiBerry DAC2 HD` for its really good sound quality - however, that was around USD 50.00.

snapplebobapple 4y ago
Can you control volume with the DAC+ Zero? Their website says no but maybe that means you control it some other way? Can you control which snapcast outputs get what from mpd/mopidy? Watching videos on youtube it looks like there is just a snapcast output in mpd/mopidy and you then have to go into the snapcast app to change where it goes?
- Helmut10001 4y ago
  Yes, you can control the volume on the Pi Zero. But usually, you will turn it to max output and then adjust through your Snapcast-Stream (in my case, I turn the volume up or down in the Iris Web App, which forwards the signal to Mopidy and then to Snapcast server and to the Snapcast client on the Pi Zero). I am not sure if I understand you correctly. Snapcast is directly integrated in the Mopidy docker-compose in Iris (see my link above). No need to do anything, simply enable Snapserver output in the mopidy.conf. Usually, you will have all your clients connect to a single music source. If you want separate music played on separate clients, then simply add another Mopidy/Snapcast/Iris stack.
  - snapplebobapple 4y ago
    https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac-zero/ https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac-zero/ says it doesn't have volume control.
    - Helmut10001 4y ago
      It has no hardware volume control, but you can adjust the volume via software, e.g. ASLA on the Pi Zero [1] or amixer [2] I know I fumbled around with this when testing the Pi Zero, but left it at 100% because I control software volume centrally via the web interface. [1]: https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201847441-DAC-Lite-Software-volume-control https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/20184... [2]: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/68072 https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/68072

snapplebobapple 4y ago

Can you control volume with the DAC+ Zero? Their website says no but maybe that means you control it some other way? Can you control which snapcast outputs get what from mpd/mopidy? Watching videos on youtube it looks like there is just a snapcast output in mpd/mopidy and you then have to go into the snapcast app to change where it goes?

Helmut10001 4y ago
Yes, you can control the volume on the Pi Zero. But usually, you will turn it to max output and then adjust through your Snapcast-Stream (in my case, I turn the volume up or down in the Iris Web App, which forwards the signal to Mopidy and then to Snapcast server and to the Snapcast client on the Pi Zero). I am not sure if I understand you correctly. Snapcast is directly integrated in the Mopidy docker-compose in Iris (see my link above). No need to do anything, simply enable Snapserver output in the mopidy.conf. Usually, you will have all your clients connect to a single music source. If you want separate music played on separate clients, then simply add another Mopidy/Snapcast/Iris stack.
- snapplebobapple 4y ago
  https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac-zero/ https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac-zero/ says it doesn't have volume control.
  - Helmut10001 4y ago
    It has no hardware volume control, but you can adjust the volume via software, e.g. ASLA on the Pi Zero [1] or amixer [2] I know I fumbled around with this when testing the Pi Zero, but left it at 100% because I control software volume centrally via the web interface. [1]: https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201847441-DAC-Lite-Software-volume-control https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/20184... [2]: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/68072 https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/68072