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  • 3 weeks later...
12 hours ago, Gerard-K said:

Well, I received my Allo Boss2 earlier this week and I am totally impressed with the quality of the sound that comes from this box. I have the Nirvana PSU with it, but I have changed to the Volumio setup (I ordered with the DietPi+Allo Gui) that I downloaded per the link above. Unfortunately, this setup doesn't use the GUI screen and buttons on the metal box and I have not yet figured out how I can use the Comfast Wifi dongle. Overall, the quality improved immediately over the previous setup of a RPi4 with the Allo Boss v1.2 that I run with both a standard PSU but tested also with a usb-c battery pack to reduce any power clutter. The detail and soundstage-precision of the Boss2 are a lot better than the Boss v1.2. So much that I decided to replace my speakers as well (Amp = NAD C352, speakers KEF iQ5, now replaced with KEF LS50). I love the natural sound that comes out of this setup, even while my speakers are not yet optimal placed. I stream from iPad, iPhone and MacbookPro, using Volumio radio-stations, Spotify Connect and Apple Music. Very happy listening hours this week!

 

Question: can I use the AlloBoss2 build in GUI and how to setup the Wifi dongle?

After the fresh installation ,We need to install OLED manually.

 

Please login to volumio through ssh and follow the below steps

 

cd /opt/

wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz

tar -xzvf boss2_oled.tar.gz

cd boss2_oled

./install_boss2_oled.sh 

 

And reboot the player

 

Comfast WiFi dongle by default it will detect in volumio.

 

Just connect Comfast WiFi dongle to Boss 2 and configure your WiFi network through volumio GUI.

 

 

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9 hours ago, Rufusen said:

Hello, I would like to use the OLED but I need more specific instructions about how to login to volumio through ssh.

I would like also ask about 

HV-EN - High Voltage Enable/Disable  RMS (1.7 or 2.0 Volt) voltage setting.

ON  2.0 Volt

OFF  1.7 Volt

Is the default value 2.0 or 1.7?

Many Thanks

You can refer below document link for volumio ssh access.

 

https://github.com/sparkysbc/sparky_linux_images/blob/master/volumio_ssh_enable.pdf

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6 hours ago, Rufusen said:

I noticed that the output seems to be low because I have to put the volume pot of my integrated amp about at 75% to have enought sound, please inform. Thanks

Please login to volumio through ssh and check alsamixer volume is 100% or not. If not ,then make it 100% (Enter below command and use arrow keys to move the curser and increase the volume) and check.

 

alsamixer

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On 3/20/2021 at 1:41 PM, Gerard-K said:

I am using the procedure as described, but I run in a permission denied situation, so it cannot write to the boss2_oled.tar.gz

Is this correct?

Thanks for helping me to resolve this. best regards, Gerard 

 

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You have to login to volumio as root user ,After login to volumio through ssh enter below command 

 

sudo su

 

password : volumio 

 

The follow the steps

 

 

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On 3/20/2021 at 4:10 PM, Rufusen said:

Thanks, how to change it to 2.0Vrms? Thanks

I have tried from here but arrows don't change the parameter

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Use <- or ->  (forward and backword )arrow key to select and use  up and down arrow keys for increasing or decreasing.

 

Make master and Digital volume 100%

 

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8 minutes ago, Rufusen said:

Thanks, tried all the steps but still Oled not working here...

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volumio@sala:~$ cd /opt/

volumio@sala:/opt$ wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gzconverted 'http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz' (ANSI_X3.4-1968) -> 'http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz' (UTF-8)

--2021-03-22 11:48:11--  http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz

Connecting to 3.230.113.73:9011... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 42135 (41K) [application/x-gzip]

boss2_oled.tar.gz.4: Permission denied

 

Cannot write to 'boss2_oled.tar.gz.4' (Permission denied).

volumio@sala:/opt$ sudo su

[sudo] password for volumio:

root@sala:/opt# cd /opt/

root@sala:/opt# wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz

converted 'http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz' (ANSI_X3.4-1968) -> 'http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz' (UTF-8)

--2021-03-22 11:48:47--  http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz

Connecting to 3.230.113.73:9011... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 42135 (41K) [application/x-gzip]

Saving to: 'boss2_oled.tar.gz.4'

 

boss2_oled.tar.gz.4 100%[=====================>]  41.15K  --.-KB/s   in 0.1s   

 

2021-03-22 11:48:47 (379 KB/s) - 'boss2_oled.tar.gz.4' saved [42135/42135]

 

root@sala:/opt# tar -xzvf boss2_oled.tar.gz

boss2_oled/

boss2_oled/__pycache__/

boss2_oled/__pycache__/IRModule.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/IRModule.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/

boss2_oled/Hardware/I2CConfig.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/__pycache__/

boss2_oled/Hardware/__pycache__/I2CConfig.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/I2CConfig.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/Line1SH1106FontLib.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLib1.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106FontLibNumbers.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106LCD.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/Line1SH1106FontLib.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106FontLib1.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106FontLibNumbers1.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106FontLib.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/Line1SH1106FontLib.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLib.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLibNumbers.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLibNumbers1.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLibNumbers.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLibNumbers1.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106LCD.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__init__.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__init__.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106LCD.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLib.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLib1.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/__init__.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/__init__.py

boss2_oled/README

boss2_oled/install_boss2_oled.sh

boss2_oled/ropieee-boss2-oled.service

boss2_oled/boss2_oled.py

boss2_oled/boss2oled.service

boss2_oled/IRModule.pyc

root@sala:/opt# cd boss2_oled

root@sala:/opt/boss2_oled# ./install_boss2_oled.sh

root@sala:/opt/boss2_oled# cd /opt/

root@sala:/opt# wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz

converted 'http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz' (ANSI_X3.4-1968) -> 'http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz' (UTF-8)

--2021-03-22 11:49:45--  http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz

Connecting to 3.230.113.73:9011... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 42135 (41K) [application/x-gzip]

Saving to: 'boss2_oled.tar.gz.5'

 

boss2_oled.tar.gz.5 100%[=====================>]  41.15K  --.-KB/s   in 0.1s   

 

2021-03-22 11:49:46 (332 KB/s) - 'boss2_oled.tar.gz.5' saved [42135/42135]

 

root@sala:/opt# tar -xzvf boss2_oled.tar.gz

boss2_oled/

boss2_oled/__pycache__/

boss2_oled/__pycache__/IRModule.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/IRModule.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/

boss2_oled/Hardware/I2CConfig.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/__pycache__/

boss2_oled/Hardware/__pycache__/I2CConfig.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/I2CConfig.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/Line1SH1106FontLib.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLib1.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106FontLibNumbers.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106LCD.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/Line1SH1106FontLib.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106FontLib1.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106FontLibNumbers1.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/SH1106FontLib.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-37.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/Line1SH1106FontLib.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLib.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLibNumbers.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLibNumbers1.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLibNumbers.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLibNumbers1.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106LCD.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__init__.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/__init__.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106LCD.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLib.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/SH1106/SH1106FontLib1.py

boss2_oled/Hardware/__init__.pyc

boss2_oled/Hardware/__init__.py

boss2_oled/README

boss2_oled/install_boss2_oled.sh

boss2_oled/ropieee-boss2-oled.service

boss2_oled/boss2_oled.py

boss2_oled/boss2oled.service

boss2_oled/IRModule.pyc

root@sala:/opt# cd boss2_oled

root@sala:/opt/boss2_oled# ./install_boss2_oled.sh

root@sala:/opt/boss2_oled#

root@sala:/opt/boss2_oled# Connection to 192.168.1.150 closed by remote host.

Connection to 192.168.1.150 closed.

iMac-di-ADZ:~ apple$

Please run below commands one more time and check

 

cd /opt/boss2_oled

 

./install_boss2_oled.sh 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Tiago said:

Hi, I’m a noob so please bear with my novice questions, thanks.

 

I’m looking to buy the Boss2 for my RPI4. So it will need two power sources, right?

 

Is Nirvana enough to power both the Pi and the hat?

 

Thanks!

To Boss 2 player (RPI4+Boss 2), we can give either two or single power.

 

For single power J18 jumper on Boss 2 board must be closed . Power should be connected through back panel DC In connector . - Yes ,You can use Nirvana power supply.

 

For dual psu J18 jumper should be open.

 

 

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14 hours ago, Tiago said:

Hi, thanks for your reply.

 

Where is the J18 jumper located on the board? I’m looking at the hat’s photo and cannot see it.

Are there advantages/disadvantages on having one or two power sources?

 

Also, before I was aware of Boss2, I was looking at Boss 1.2 vs DigiOne and had decided to go with the DigiOne option and just connect it to my AV receiver via coaxial. 

My point is: will the sound quality be better with Boss2 via RCA or with DigiOne via coaxial?

Please find the J18 jumper on Boss 2 board.

 

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7 minutes ago, Gerard-K said:

Still problems with the Comfast wifi dongle and Volumio. I've tried all methods of getting the system setup: via ethernet cable but also via wifi host/hotspot setup. the dongle was recognized with the wifi hotspot/host setup, worked for a bit, but still crashes the RPI after some time when I installed the OLED according to the procedures as outlined in this thread. 

 

Can it be that the Comfast WIFI is conflicting with the Boss2 h/w as I see errors mentioning interrupt request failures and then kernal panic and shutting down the CPU's. The RPI never comes up after that so need POPO to restart (and remove the dongle) to get a working system.

Forwarded PM please check

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1 hour ago, Tiago said:

Hi,

 

You say I can use Nirvana to power both the Boss2 and the RPi.

 

But on the Nirvana specs it says “Nirvana has only one output at 2.85A/5V”

 

So how may I power both the Boss2 and the RPi?

 

Nirvana has only one output. 

 

Boss 2 player will work with single power also

 

For single power J18 jumper on Boss 2 board must be closed . Power should be connected through back panel DC In connector and both RPI and Boss 2 board will get the power.

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  • 3 weeks later...
On 3/30/2021 at 2:25 PM, Audio_Allo said:

Forwarded PM please check

After updating the driver ,Comfast WiFi dongle is working fine with Volumio in Boss 2 player.

 

Need to follow the below steps for updating the  driver.

 

Note : Update the driver without WiFi Dongle after updating the driver, please insert Comfast  WiFi  dongle 

 

cd /usr/src

 

wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/rtl8812au/install.sh

 

sh install.sh

 

And reboot  once and then plug WiFi module to Boss 2 player and start 

 

Or flash below image to the SD card (In that driver is already updated)

 

http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/volumio-2.853-2020-12-31-pi.img.zip

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14 hours ago, toroloco said:

Hello.  I have not been able to get the Boss2 to work on the official Volumio image yet (though it is working, including the OLED,  following all the steps in this thread using the Volumio image provided by Allo).

 

When I asked Volumio why the Boss2 was not supported yet even though the official Raspberry image supports it, this was their response:

 

 

 

I thought I remembered seeing an Allo pull request for this on Guthub, but I can't find it.  Allo, could you follow the steps above to incorporate the Boss2 into Volumio please?  While your hacked image works right now, there are new features in Volumio (such as Tidal Connect) that I would like to use. The only way is to have the Boss2 officially supported by Volumio.

 

Thanks.

 

 

As per volumio docs saying, the driver and dtoverlay required in volumio using kernel (currently volumio using 4.19.118) , boss2 drivers available on 5.4.77 rpi kernel onwards.  Allo will take steps to include boss2 in newer kernel versions of volumio.

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  • 2 weeks later...
12 hours ago, lrieppel said:

Hello --

 

thanks for this helpful thread! I followed the instructions here (http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/volumio/info) and I've got Volumio working with the Allo Boss2 player. The comfast wifi dongle is working as well. But the OLED screen does not work, despite following the steps in the above instructions. The driver downloaded and installed but the OLED screen still won't work. Any idea what might be going on? Thanks!

You got any error while installing OLED script ?And have you changed hostname ?We need to install OLED script before changing the hostname.

 

Can you please execute below command and check again

 

cd /opt/

wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz

tar -xzvf boss2_oled.tar.gz

cd boss2_oled

./install_boss2_oled.sh 

 

And reboot the player

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On 5/1/2021 at 7:44 PM, lrieppel said:

I think now I know what you mean when you say you  need to install OLED script before changing the hostname. I changed the host name back to "volumio" and ran the script. This time it seemed to run a bunch of python code and install a bunch of stuff... but the screen is still not working! :-(

Can you please share below command result

 

cat /etc/rc.local

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15 hours ago, domether said:

Hello, I've been able to setup the OLED install script successfully with Volumio 2.853 from the Allo website, however I'm seeing errors following the same instructions/process when trying to install on the latest version downloaded directly from Volumio (2.882).

 

The error is as follows: 

 


unable to execute 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc': No such file or directory

error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-melZSo/RPi.GPIO/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-5J5V6g-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-melZSo/RPi.GPIO
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log
******************************************
***      Successfully Installed        ***
******************************************

 

When rebooted the OLED shows a line for the volume, but the remote and control dial doesn't function.

 In volumio 2.882 some packages missing , due to that rpi.gpio not installing the new versions.

 

2.882 base image having issue, in gcc. So flash 2.873 and then update to 2.882 ,then it is working properly.

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4 hours ago, Ed V said:

Hi! I’m sorry I’m new to this as well and very inexperienced. I’m trying to get Tidal Connect with Volumio up and running. When I flashed volumio-2.853 from the link above I was able to select BOSS2 as in IS2 DAC. That worked getting Spotify connect up and running but wouldn’t allow me to update the software so that I could login in Tidal to use Tidal Connect. So I flashed volumio-2.873 and updated to volumio-2.882. That let me login to Tidal but then the BOSS2 is not an option as a configuration for a DAC. I’m still not able to see how you can select BOSS2 and use Tidal Connect. Thank you! 

After updating to volumio 2.882 , we need install Boss 2 driver and OLED manually.

 

Please login to volumio through ssh and install Boss 2 driver and OLED

 

1) For Boss 2 driver please follow the steps below

 

sudo su

password : volumio


cd /usr/src
wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/volumio/419118upd.sh
sh 419118upd.sh
reboot

 

2. For Boss 2 OLED Please follow the steps below

 

sudo su

password : volumio

 

cd /opt/
wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz
tar -xzvf boss2_oled.tar.gz
cd boss2_oled
./install_boss2_oled.sh 

 

And reboot the player.

 

You can refer below document link for volumio ssh access

 

https://github.com/sparkysbc/sparky_linux_images/blob/master/volumio_ssh_enable.pdf

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On 6/27/2021 at 9:40 AM, Ed V said:

 

Thank you so much! That got Tidal Connect working which is all I really care about. I tried to get the oled screen going a couple times but could not get it to work. I'm really not worried about it. The Boss2 sounds insanely good with my set up. Thanks for a great product and the great service. 

Any error you are getting while installing OLED? Forwarded PM please check

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  • 5 months later...
12 hours ago, Michal_P said:

Hi

Is there any tutorial / instruction how to install Boss 2.0 on the newest Volumio 3? 

In volumio 3 , Boss 2 selection already available.

 

OLED we need to install manually through ssh.

 

For Boss 2 OLED Please follow the steps below

 

sudo su

 

password : volumio

 

cd /opt/
wget http://3.230.113.73:9011/Allocom/Boss2/boss2_oled.tar.gz
tar -xzvf boss2_oled.tar.gz
cd boss2_oled
./install_boss2_oled.sh

 

 And reboot the player.

 

Note : Don't change the hostname before installing the OLED.

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12 hours ago, strawman said:

Hi , I am on Volumio 3 on Allo Boss2  followed steps above from Audio_Allo, installed through ssh, as advised, rebooted but display is still  not working, any suggestions? many thanks 

While installing did you noticed any errors?

 

You installed OLED without changing volumio hostname right?

 

It will work in volumio3 .Forwarded PM also please check 

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