Hi I’m having a few niggles with the Pirate Audio 3w amp board. I’ve installed all the dependencies (apart from Mopidy) and it’s working fine both playing an mp3 from the desktop and an internet stream using python-vlc through its own speakers. I don’t need/want to use mopidy, just play an internet …

I’ve also been experimenting with the pirate audio board - in my case the one with a built in speaker - and seem to have quite a bit working with it. I can’t find a way to attach a file to this forum, so here is a (fairly large for a forum post) chunk which gives prerequisites, setup and code to us…

In case you are still working on this… I had the same issues with the st7789 examples. The ones in this folder [image] pimoroni/pirate-audio Examples and documentation for the Pirate Audio range of Raspberry Pi add-ons - pimoroni/pirate-audio run without prob…

Thanks David that looks very comprehensive! I’ll give it a go between mince pies over the weekend (probably with a fresh install) and report back, really appreciate the response.

Just realised my file didn’t refer to the need to have a 240x240 image at raspberrypi.png in the same directory as the program. If it’s not there you’ll get an error about the file being missing. For this purpose, I just downloaded one from a Google image search.

Thanks again that worked really well, I see the menu and the sound, colours and image all behave nicely, much appreciated. I was running it in Thonny so just had to do pip3 for the st7789 install but otherwise the example was perfect for me and I’ve been able to adapt it to play images and vlc strea…

Hi daldred Thank you very much for your code. I was able to run it on a raspberry pi 3a+ , running on Raspbian Buster Lite. But volume control doesn’t work. Running play test.mp3 vol 1 it returns the warning play WARN alsa: can’t encode 0-bit Unknown or not applicable Could you help me ? T…

There’s a (quite old) thread here: https://github.com/floere/playa/issues/6 which indicates that adding the option “-t alsa” immediately after the ‘play’ may sort this out. I’ve not got the display set up on my Pi at the moment, I’m afraid, so can’t test that for you.

Sorry daldred. My diagnosis was wrong. Volume control works correctly (ex.: play test.mp3 vol -12dB reduces sound level), but there is a loud continuous background noise mixed with my mp3 test sound. Running play test.mp3 vol 0 plays only a continuous background noise. It is independent of the …

I have just seen your message. Thank you. Using play test.mp3 -t alsa vol -12dB it removes the warning message. The background noise persists. Thank you again.

Hello daldred, I am using the pirate audio headphone amp version and used your code you posted Dec 2019. I followed all instructions in the comment without success. I have no image, no audio. Does the headphone-version has another pinout ? Any suggestion whats wrong ?

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Thanks for responding, that’s useful, will keep trying!

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