Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

This depends on the OS. If the card is not being actively written to, pulling the power should be safe. Some distros run off the card, while other run in RAM, but in general I've not had trouble with Picore with this, and I used to get lots of power outages.

For getting a reliable address you can always go to, some distros will export a .local host name (Picore does picoreplayer.local by default), so you can use that name instead of the IP address to get to your Pi, so I use http://picoreplayer-pi4b.local/ to access my Pi at home.

 

I'm pretty sure it was a Pi2AES that killed all those teenagers out at Camp Crystal Lake.

 

That's a common misconception. It was in fact the Pi2AES's mother that killed all those teenagers out at Camp Crystal Lake!

 

enough, please.

 

Yes, I think that's clear to everyone. So far we've been discussing a lot of the problems with bubbleupnp and connectivity with the Rasperry Pi in this thread. The RPi is part of the Pi2AES it would be a bit silly to have a separate thread just for troubleshooting problems that have to do with the raspberry.

When I look at that cute little black box that makes magic happen for music in my rig I just think Pi2AES, not Raspberry Pi computer with a Pi2AES hat. I think it's easier for your customers to just come to this thread for all matters related to using the Pi2AES.

Keep in mind @Michael Kelly the only reason people are making these kinds of sick jokes is because they adore your product so much. If it wasn't absolutely loved here on SBAF people wouldn't dare say such things about a product. But the Pi2AES must be the most universally beloved product on this site. And that's saying something, we're a picky bunch.

 

Maybe you can... what Internet router do you use? The vast majority of routers have some kind of admin interface that allows pre-assigning an IP address to a specific device. If you share the router model, the geek gnomes of SBAF may be able to find the magic spell for you

 

ill look into that. There’s an extra level of difficulty because it’s upstairs and I can’t walk right now. and everyone else here has no idea. Maybe they could tell me the make and model though. Thank you!

 

Just ask them to take a pic of it and post it.

 

It's no risk to unplug/re-plug if you first shut down the system (e.g. in Volumio, Shutdown ==> Power Off). Without interrupting the power, you can do Shutdown ==> Restart.

I don't understand the scenario you are trying to deal with. If the system is hung up and unresponsive, you have no choice but to cut the power and turn it back on. If the system is still responding, do a software shutdown before pulling the plug.

 

My Pi2AES (or raspberry pi) gets frozen or buggy or lots of other things and needs to be restarted but I can still access its page online.

the reason just going to moode.local doesn’t work is because I have two Pi2AES one for headphone rig and one for my speakers.

@loadexfa happens to be coming over here for a mini meet on Sunday and will be able to check out my router and get a static IP setup. If we have time that is (lots of gear to listen to)

@Michael Kelly we will have 3 Pi2AES in one room for our meet so we can have 3 DACs setup. So grateful for this little box!

 

FWIW, I know Ropiee allows you to name your pi (ie., I have one named sunroom and another named livingroom). Their access names then become "sunroom.local" and "livingroom.local".

I don't remember if Moode allows you to name the pi... does anyone else know? I can check mine the next time I go into the office...

 

yes I have mine named speakers and headphones. But it just means I can’t go to moode.local to access them because there are two of them. It wouldn’t know which to go to.

but I think @loadexfa will set me up with a static IP. Very nice guy if you haven’t noticed.

 

can you go to "speakers.local" and "headphones.local"?

 

I actually named them “Moode Headphones” and Moode Speakers” for some reason. Now I want to change that anf take the Moode out of it.

but http://moodeheadphones.local/ does not load

 

I'd doublecheck that you restarted the rpi after setting the new name

I just renamed my office moode rpi to "dasbox", restarted and "dasbox.local/" brought the moode interface right up.


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and no spaces in your name... so the space in "moode headphones" may be your problem...

 

I didn’t rename it yet. That’s what it’s been named for many months now. Oh well. A fixed IP will solve this.

Are there still times when the rpi needs to be unplugged Fromm power because it’s so stuck you can’t load it’s Moode page to restart?

 

so will taking the space out of you rpi name...

If I'm using bubbleupnp to play qobuz via moode, then bubble will freeze once a month or so... those are typically solved by restarting thru moode... I rarely have to pull the plug on the rpi (couple times a year). I've always attributed the problems to bubble (anyone know of a more stable upnp player?)

If I'm using moode to play local music, then I can't remember ever having to pull the plug due to a freeze while playing... maybe after power outages... (I think my rpi restarts much faster than our office network/firewall)

 

So I did this...named mine "moode2" and it works in moode.local and in moode2.local.

 

Pretty sure the reason you can't use the .local naming syntax is that Windows doesn't natively support mDNS.
1. Install the Windows version of Apple's Bonjour Print Service. (this will enable mDNS support in Windows)
2. Rename your Moode instance (in Moode, go to: Configure -> System -> General -> Host name) so that it doesn't contain any spaces or illegal characters.
3. Use HTTP not HTTPS, when you enter the host name in your browser's address bar.
4. Disregard any warnings from your browser about it being an unsecure site and continue on.

HTH

 

A bit off topic, I've been using Volumio and it sounds great. But was curious about moode (few people mentioned they prefer it) so I booted it - all works, but it sounds noticeably worse for some reason. Flatter, quieter, less texture. Everything else is the same, playing local high quality Flac files. Nothing to do with pi2aes, just on pi4 going to a topping dac. Weird.