Hi, I bought a Pirate Radio kit. I did the assembly by following the guide “Assembling Pirate Radio”. For Internet radio, I have used the guide “Internet Radio on your Pirate Radio”. After a few minutes of operation vlc crashes. If I restart VLCD service it works again but the VU meter and butto…

Try replacing your /etc/asound.conf with this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimoroni/pivumeter/df8d9f5dc9edd4c91b3009771cd95bbf039ec58f/dependencies/etc/asound.conf I hope to replace the version that’s installed with this one, once I gain confidence that the fix works. There appears a proble…

Hi, Thank you for the answer. I’ll try it on.

My Pirate radio has some problems aswell. After trying the pop reduction gist, I get a really gabled bit of audio before it starts after a few seconds. There is no pop but the garbled sound is even worse! I don’t think I made a mistake following the tutorial but it could be useful to have full com…

Hi, The modification of the asound.conf file solved the problem of vlc crashing. For the others modifications, I have not heard much improvement. There are commutations noises. Can they’s resolved? Thanks for the help.

Hi, After some tests, for me the most satisfying solution is the modification of asound.conf. On the other hand, it substitutes a hard/soft problem under the following conditions: when the play/stop button (>||) is pressed the speaker is traversed by a current of approximately 1 A (4 V DC at the…

[image] icare: when the play/stop button (>||) is pressed the speaker is traversed by a current of approximately 1 A (4 V DC at the terminals of the speaker). This is strange- almost like VLC is holding the audio device open with the last sample value- we noticed something like this before wi…

Hi, There is no problem, you can replicate the state with the test of the hold button.

Hi, I bought a Pirate Radio kit and followed build and install guides but The web interface daemon is not starting. I am unable to connect to the GUI via the Pi’s IP address or .local name below is “script loading text”. there are some failures that occur in both current stretch and stretch-lite i…

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