HifiBerry DAC+ Overlay not working OOTB

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Hi,

Thanks for the update. Only one small bug report from me.
I have followed this guide, which has always worked before:

https://www.hifiberry.com/build/guides/enabling-hifiberries-in-osmc/

I have a HifiBerry DAC+. Since the v19, when my Pi3 is restarted it loses the connection to the dacplus+.

It is still selected in My OSMC under Hardware Support as the Overlay, but when I check in Settings/System/Audio Output the Audio Output Device is greyed out.

To fix this I have to go into the My OSMC/Pi Config/Config Editor and Open config-user.txt, and if I change the line:

dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus-overlay

to

dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus

and then reboot, everything works again and it is visible in the Audio Output Device, but the next time I reboot this becomes greyed out again and I need to perform the edit in config-user.txt and then reboot to get it working again.

Hope all of this information helps witha fix.
Many thanks.

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We will look in to this.

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Similar issue for IQaudio. The config-user.txt shows
dtoverlay=iqaudio-dacplus-overlay,unmute_amp
Editing to remove -overlay restores sound until the second reboot.

Airplay is not working but this seems to be a Kodi issue.

Many thanks for the upgrade. Appreciated.

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Iā€™ve got the same problem with the same config (rpi3 + hifiberry)

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So removing -overlay from config-user.txt didnā€™t solved your issue?

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Raspiaudio.com audio+ board has the same problem and solution in case anyone is searching for this. (It looks the same as hifiberry dac to osmc).

While Iā€™m happy to get it going again, I notice there is no longer an HDMI option under the audio output choices - just the Dac.

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If you put the line ā€œdetoverlay=hifiberry-dacplusā€ in the /boot/config.txt file, it survives reboot. It looks like someone mixed up config.txt with config-user.txt as to which file should be overwritten.

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Iā€™ve just tried it and it works! Thanks

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At first I thought you had a typo there, but I can confirm that this works and survives a reboot.
If anybody happens to be using Raspotify, add
OPTIONS="--device hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0"
to /etc/default/raspotify, otherwise it will play over HDMI regardless of your OSMC settings.

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Oops! That was a typo. I meant dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus. I canā€™t imagine it working with the ā€˜eā€™ squeezed in there.

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I get the same with hifiberry digi.
It doesnā€™t work at all even deleting overlay txt in osmc config.
When scrolling to audio tab I get a 10 second delay before it shows and output device is greyed out so canā€™t change it back to HDMI.
I get permission denied trying to edit /boot/config.txt using winscp.

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Firstly - you should edit /boot/config-user.txt.

If you are having issues with permissions, just wait for the next update.

Sam

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Confirmed same issue on a fresh install today (with updates). Same solution of editing the /boot/config-user.txt file worked for me too remove the ā€œ-overlayā€ so only ā€œdtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplusā€ remains. I did this by removing the sdcard from the raspberry pi 3B+ and editing the txt file on my laptop. You guys rock as I had gone through the GUI 20 times over before finding the solution here.

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Hi kevingham,
many thanks for your hint. Last week my OSMC (Raspberry 3) fell silent after an update. All searches for solutions were unsuccessful at first, so that I even (unsuccessfully) carried out a new installation.
Today, I found your contribution and deleted the obsolete part ā€œ-overlayā€ ā€¦ and immediately the audio output was reanimated.
I hope that the Hifiberry people will update their instructions

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