HifiBerry Digi

[Calzor Suzay]

Hi,

Fairly new Xbian/Rpi user and currently extract my digital audio off the hdmi cable to an amp using a little external powered box. I'd like to get rid of the box, extra hdmi cable and power etc replacing it with a HiFiBerry Digi.

I'm running the XBMC Gotham build on xbian (afaik), can I make use of this little plug on board, will it be supported at some point etc?

BTW great distro I had no end of crashing on Raspbmc before I found xbian

[IriDium]

I have no idea as I don't need this sort of set up as I use HDMI via the AVR which works well.

The best thing I can suggest is just to try it!! If it fails, come back and we'll try and see what issue there is.

[belese]

It won't work now, as official xbmc doesn't support yet output audio via alsa.

If you want to try, you should test the popcornmix newclock3 branch :
https://github.com/popcornmix/xbmc/tree/newclock3

you need to compil it, it's experimental, and i didn't test myself but it should support alsa output.

[Calzor Suzay]

Ok thanks I'll wait till Gotham is more mainstream and has it by default for now I can use the powered box to split off sound

[bairdy]

hi guys

i have one of these and have had it working in raspbmc/openelec but so far for xbain it wont work as the modules (snd-soc-hifiberry-digi and also snd-soc-wm8804)aren't currently built into the kernel but i would experiment with gotham builds of xbian to try and get it to work if the kernel was to include thwm