I’m using PiFi Digi, no problems with it, but i had no chance to compare it to hifiberry one. Looks like main components are the same (wolfson chip), but i’m not sure if boards are equal.
I used both: the Hifiberry Dac and the PiFi Dac on a raspberry B+ with Volumio 2 RC1
I can not hear any difference between the two, playing over my NAD D3020 amplifier and MB Quart 800 speakers.
I am now using the Hifiberry Dac, because i paid the most for it, so it must be the best, right?
I have bought a PiFi Digi V1.1 from Dx.com to install on my Raspberry Pi type B. I have tried everything from Volumio, Rune, MusicBox, but I can’t get it working. I have tried al the settings, drivers, and running now Volumio 1.55 but no sound… The LED is working and I think I did the soldering on P5 correctly.
If I set the output to HDMI, it works normally…
UPDATE 1: I installed Volumio 2 RC2 and now the PiFi Digi is working (!), but the DLNA and AirPlay won’t but at least I get sound of it. Don’t know why it works now and thats frustrating as well
UPDATE 2: I’ back on Volumio 1.55 and selected I2S driver: HifiBerry Digi but with Audio Output I can only select ALSA. I would expect that I should be able to select HifiBerry Digi here as well?
Any thoughts? Please help me get the PiFi Digi working.
This may solve your problems with the DAC. I do not own one of the clones now (it’s on its way from eBay), but I found these guides which should also apply to the PiFi 2.0 DAC as far as I know. The instructions are different based on what kernel you are running. This may explain the unexpected behavior after upgrading.
Even though this thread is somewhat old I’d like to report about the Pifi Digi+.
I have one running on a RPi 2 for roughly a year now and it works flawlessly on Raspbian, OSMC and Openelec. To me the combination of added IR receiver for ¹/₃ of a Hifiberry’s price definately cuts the deal.
Configuration is dead simple: Plug in the board, add 2 lines to the config.txt and reboot. The config varies depending on the kernel version.
Mind the minimal, but crucial change. It is only a question of comma vs. collon, but it makes the difference between working and not. Took me a couple hours to get it right the first time.
BTW my Pifi didn’t come with spacers, but the required large case did.
I’ve just ordered a pifi/hifi digi+ from DX for a pi b+. I’m wanting to use volumio on it. Do I just use the hifiberry digi+ i2s configuration in the settings to get it to work or do I need to do some programming etc.
Slight necrobump but HDMI audio is the exact same bitstream as i2s audio - just folded into the TMDS signal that carries the video (and CEI, and usb-over-hdmi, and ethernet-over-hdmi, etc)
That’s why you can get boxes that combine single-channel DVI-D with SPDIF into an HDMI output. Or the reverse. They work great, and they don’t mangle the data streams at all. They just fold them together or separate them.
I used to use the PiFi without issues, controlling the volume too.
today I upgraded to latest version and volume control seems to be broken.
I’m using “HIFIBerry DAC Plus” setup as Audio Peripheral and DAC Model too.