So here is the plan. I currently have an OpenELEC Pi2 running with no additional addons. Audio is analogue and horrible :slight_smile: So I ordered a HiFiBerry DAC+ RCA. So far so good. I want to replace OpenELEC with Musicbox to decrease the overhead of Kodi. I don’t expect any issues, this is a su…

Yes, I have seen those. I’m just wondering whether the combo with HiFiBerry will work…

Oh, as in can you physically connect a PiTFT and a hifiberry DAC+ to the raspberry pi at the same time? I don’t believe any of the pins clash so you should be able to just stack the TFT on top of the DAC+. Musicbox wise, the DAC+ is just like any other soundcard so it should be fine. The pmb-pitft …

It does, yes. Unfortunately it also states this: PiTFT touchscreen is not working with Pi2, yet. I assume that it is only the touch part that does not work, but cannot tell really.

Let’s see what they say: https://github.com/ISO-B/pmb-pitft/issues/14

It was unsupported in the custom firmware but that’s now apparently been fixed. https://github.com/notro/rpi-firmware#changelog However, the latest version of the firmware they’re using talks about using device tree overlays. In musicbox we currently disable this kernel feature since it makes the r…

Hi How did this project go? I am just about to do the same with a rpi2, hifiberry and a sainsmart screen: http://www.sainsmart.com/raspberry-pi/sainsmart-3-5-inch-tft-lcd-320-480-touch-screen-display-for-raspberry-pi-2-b-b.html Any results from your work would be much appreciated :slight_smile:

Musicbox + HiFiBerry DAC+ + Pi2 + PiTFT + Case

Pi MusicBox (archive)

kingosticks May 20, 2015, 2:45pm 2

There are a few search hits for ‘tft’ on here already. Raspberry pi adafruit extension in particular.

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Musicbox + HiFiBerry DAC+ + Pi2 + PiTFT + Case

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