Headless Plexamp - it works but no audio!

Plex Labs
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Hi,

I was able to get plexamp headless running on my RPi 2 B+ which is great.

I am using the Moode Audio image as a base.

I can open the web UI , hit play and see the time progressing, but there is no audio. When I checked, the USB DAC is not showing up in the output options. Only HDMI and Headphone jack is visible.

Where can I find the logs to figure out what is going on?

Any ideas of what can it be?

Cheers!

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on the Pi, Plexamp logs are at ~/.cache/Plexamp/log

is the USB DAC showing as an option if you enter aplay -l ?

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Hi, thanks for replying so fast!

Yes, it’s the card 2 below:

pi@moode:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: b1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1], device 0: bcm2835 HDMI 1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 4/4
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 1: Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones], device 0: bcm2835 Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones]
  Subdevices: 4/4
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 2: Audio [Hifi Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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thanks … if the USB DAC is showing there, it should also show as an available output in Plexamp settings from the web UI … logs might give some additional info

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After I ran the aplay command, the device showed up in plexamp.

It worked. Will do some more testing.