External DAC

[Luke]

Hi Lukasz, 
what wifi module where you using? The longsleep repo has a few drivers for them and I enabled whatever was there. While building Volumio, firmware is being added for realtek and others. I'm not claiming all available dongles will work (they don't), need to check which ones I used.
As for the hickups, it is known to happen with some platforms while volumio is still indexing the library.
Your still have that issue?
Glad the connectors have been turned horizontally on the production model.

-- Gé --

Hi Ge,

I tried thee wifi dongles in total: one old belkin and two no-brand dongles with a realtek chips. I will look further into this too. 

Regarding the hitching, I will need to play some music today and see - I heard two 2-3sec dropouts during ~2hrs of listening yesterday evening.

Yes, its really nice that the connectors are turned horizontally. Now lets hope someone designs a nice case for it

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Thanks for the pics, glad to see that things are moving :-)

Questions though, since buses/connectors are not accessible anymore.
Powering the pine64 through the microUSB has been a pain for many; powering through the Euler bus appears as the best option.

For those who are already using the Euler and/or EXP and/or PI2 connectors, is there a way to connect the DAC to the pine64 with wires to the I2S pins?
Or will there be a DAC board with protruding male connectors?
Thanks!

I'm not be best person to answer your question, but no - there are no protruding pins on the current DAC. If I were to guess, I'd say you probably will have to power Pine board from microUSB.