Official moOde 8 support thread

[Tim Curtis]

Today I tried to upgrade from moOde 7.6.1 to 8.0.0.
Burned an image with Etcher. And selected the Allo Piano 2.1 dac. Tested for sound and it worked. Because I have an Allo Kali Reclocker I selected under driver options --> glb-mclk Enabled. After reboot no more sound. Reverting to Disabled did not solve the problem. Several restarts of my Raspberry Pi 3B+ still no sound to be heard.
Apparently it should work as the timer on the mainscreen progresses. I've tried all kind of settings, including volume settings (software, hardware etc), but no sound to be heared. Also reburning the image on the same SD did not work. Using a new SD did resolve the problem shortly, but altering the setting under driver options seems to destroy something.
below a moodeutl -l log just after changing the setting from Disabled to enabled.

Code:

Last login: Mon Mar 14 08:11:16 2022 from 192.168.1.100
pi@moode:~ $ moodeutl -l
20220314 081317 worker: --
20220314 081317 worker: -- Start moOde 8 series
20220314 081317 worker: --
20220314 081317 worker: Successfully daemonized
20220314 081317 worker: File check (OK)
20220314 081318 worker: Session vacuumed
20220314 081318 worker: Session loaded
20220314 081318 worker: Debug logging (OFF)
20220314 081318 worker: --
20220314 081318 worker: -- Audio debug
20220314 081318 worker: --
20220314 081318 worker: ALSA cards: (0:PianoDACPlus | 1:empty | 2:empty | 3:empty
20220314 081318 worker: MPD config: (0:Allo Piano 2.1 Hi-Fi DAC | mixer:(HDMI) | card:0)
20220314 081318 worker: ALSA mixer actual (Digital)
20220314 081318 worker: ALSA Digital volume set to (amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Digital',0)
20220314 081318 worker: --
20220314 081318 worker: -- System
20220314 081318 worker: --
20220314 081319 moode.php: MPD connect failed: cmd=(loadlib)
20220314 081319 moode.php: MPD connect failed: cmd=(lsinfo)
20220314 081320 worker: Host      (moode)
20220314 081320 worker: moOde     (8.0.0 2022-03-12)
20220314 081320 worker: RaspiOS   (11.2)
20220314 081320 worker: Kernel    (5.15.23-v7+ #1525)
20220314 081320 worker: Platform  (Pi-3B+ 1.3 1GB)
20220314 081320 worker: ARM arch  (armv7l, 32-bit)
20220314 081320 worker: MPD ver   (0.23.5)
20220314 081320 worker: CPU gov   (ondemand)
20220314 081320 worker: USB boot  (enabled)
20220314 081320 worker: File sys  (expanded)
20220314 081320 worker: HDMI port (On)
20220314 081320 worker: Sys LED0  (On)
20220314 081320 worker: Sys LED1  (On)
20220314 081320 worker: --
20220314 081320 worker: -- Network
20220314 081320 worker: --
20220314 081320 worker: eth0 adapter exists
20220314 081320 worker: eth0 wait for address (No)
20220314 081320 worker: IP addr (192.168.1.185)
20220314 081320 worker: Netmask (255.255.255.0)
20220314 081321 worker: Gateway (192.168.1.1)
20220314 081321 worker: Pri DNS (192.168.1.177)
20220314 081321 worker: Domain  ()
20220314 081321 worker: wlan0 adapter exists
20220314 081321 worker: wlan0 country (US)
20220314 081321 worker: wlan0 SSID is blank
20220314 081321 worker: wlan0 AP mode not started (eth0 active)
20220314 081321 worker: wlan0 address not assigned
20220314 081321 worker: wlan0 power save disabled
20220314 081321 worker: --
20220314 081321 worker: -- Audio config
20220314 081321 worker: --
20220314 081321 worker: MPD conf updated
20220314 081321 worker: ALSA card number (0)
20220314 081321 worker: MPD audio output (Allo Piano 2.1 Hi-Fi DAC)
20220314 081321 worker: Audio formats (S16_LE, S24_LE, S32_LE)
20220314 081321 worker: ALSA mixer name (Digital)
20220314 081321 worker: MPD mixer type (software)
20220314 081321 worker: Hdwr volume controller not detected
20220314 081321 worker: ALSA output mode (Default: plughw)
20220314 081321 worker: ALSA loopback (Off)
20220314 081322 worker: Piano 2.1 output mode (2.0)
20220314 081326 worker: Piano 2.1 initialized
20220314 081326 worker: Reset renderer active flags
20220314 081327 worker: CamillaDSP (off)
20220314 081327 worker: --
20220314 081327 worker: -- MPD startup
20220314 081327 worker: --
20220314 081327 worker: MPD started
20220314 081327 worker: MPD accepting connections
20220314 081327 worker: MPD output 1 ALSA Default (on)
20220314 081327 worker: MPD output 2 ALSA Bluetooth (off)
20220314 081327 worker: MPD output 3 HTTP Server (off)
20220314 081327 worker: MPD crossfade (off)
20220314 081327 worker: MPD ignore CUE files (yes)
20220314 081327 worker: --
20220314 081327 worker: -- Feature availability
20220314 081327 worker: --
20220314 081327 worker: Source select (available)
20220314 081327 worker: Source select (source: MPD)
20220314 081327 worker: Source select (output: Allo Piano 2.1 Hi-Fi DAC)
20220314 081327 worker: Bluetooth (available)
20220314 081327 worker: Airplay renderer (available)
20220314 081327 worker: Spotify renderer (available)
20220314 081327 worker: Squeezelite (available)
20220314 081327 worker: RoonBridge renderer (not installed)
20220314 081327 worker: Multiroom sender (available)
20220314 081327 worker: Multiroom receiver (available)
20220314 081327 worker: UPnP renderer (available)
20220314 081327 worker: DLNA server (available)
20220314 081327 worker: UPnP browser (available)
20220314 081327 worker: GPIO button handler (available)
20220314 081327 worker: Stream recorder (n/a)
20220314 081327 worker: --
20220314 081327 worker: -- Music sources
20220314 081327 worker: --
20220314 081327 worker: USB sources (none attached)
20220314 081327 worker: NAS and UPnP sources (none configured)
20220314 081327 worker: --
20220314 081327 worker: -- Other
20220314 081327 worker: --
20220314 081327 worker: USB volume knob (Off)
20220314 081327 worker: USB auto-mounter (udisks-glue)
20220314 081327 worker: Saved MPD vol level (0)
20220314 081327 worker: Preamp volume level (0)
20220314 081327 worker: MPD volume level (0) restored
20220314 081327 worker: ALSA volume level (None)
20220314 081327 worker: Auto-play (Off)
20220314 081327 worker: Maintenance interval (120 minutes)
20220314 081327 worker: Screen saver activation (Never)
20220314 081327 worker: Session permissions (OK)
20220314 081327 worker: Watchdog started
20220314 081327 worker: Ready
20220314 081410 worker: Job mpdcfg
20220314 081411 watchdog: Error: MPD restarted (check syslog for errors)
20220314 081411 worker: Job mpdcfg: devchg|mixchg (0|0), alsavol (none), playstate (playing)

I don't have a Piano or Kali anymore and so will not be able to try and debug but in the log the record below is suspicious since IIRC the Piano 2.1 does support hardware volume.

Code:

20220314 081321 worker: Hdwr volume controller not detected

To troubleshoot try the following:

1. Fresh image
2. No Kali, just the Piano
3. Verify that moOde log shows "Hardware volume controller detected"

4. Repeat 2 and 3 but with the Kali

5. In Audio Config set "glb-mclk Enabled"

6. Verify /boot/config.txt has the line below

Code:

dtoverlay=allo-piano-dac-plus-pcm512x-audio,glb_mclk

7. Reboot

8. Examine moOde log for "Hardware volume controller not detected" and if present then it would suggest some sort of issue with the Piano plus driver in kernel 5.15.y.

9. To revert set Named I2S device to "None" in Audio Config.