# No output card found (raspberry pi zero + phat DAC + Pi MusicBox)

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099>\
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)\
**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099 "2016-02-05T11:01:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimGeyssens](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timgeyssens/32/322_2.png) [@TimGeyssens](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/TimGeyssens)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/1 "2016-02-05T11:01:00Z")

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Hey,

I’ve just soldered a phat dac ([https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/phat-dac](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/phat-dac)) on my pi zero and wish to get some audio output from Pi Music Box but after updating some settings I know get

Fail, no output card found.

I followed the instructions here [http://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/phat/raspberry-pi-phat-dac-install](http://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/phat/raspberry-pi-phat-dac-install)

So my files look like this:  
**/etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf**  
#######blacklist spi-bcm2708  
#######blacklist i2c-bcm2708

**/etc/modules**  
#######snd\_bcm2835  
#######sdn\_soc\_bcm2708\_i2s

**/etc/asound.conf**  
pcm.!default {  
type hw card 0  
}  
ctl.!default {  
type hw card 0  
}

**/boot/config.txt**  
dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac

**/boot/config/settings.ini**  
output = hifiberry\_dacplus

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/2 "2016-02-05T11:35:15Z")

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I would have said, undo everything you _changed_ following that guide and simply set `output = hifiberry_dac` in `/boot/config/settings.ini`. Did you try that before making all those changes?

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**Author:** ![TimGeyssens](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timgeyssens/32/322_2.png) [@TimGeyssens](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/TimGeyssens)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/3 "2016-02-05T11:46:00Z")

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Nope didn’t try that, will give it a go, thanks for the suggestion!

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**Author:** ![TimGeyssens](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timgeyssens/32/322_2.png) [@TimGeyssens](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/TimGeyssens)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/4 "2016-02-05T12:58:38Z")

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Ok that gets rid of the error, I can now browse to musicbox.local but still no sound being outputted, any further ideas?

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**Author:** ![TimGeyssens](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timgeyssens/32/322_2.png) [@TimGeyssens](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/TimGeyssens)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/5 "2016-02-05T13:10:34Z")

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The output from aplay-l returns ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]

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**Author:** ![TimGeyssens](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timgeyssens/32/322_2.png) [@TimGeyssens](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/TimGeyssens)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/6 "2016-02-05T13:43:23Z")

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Aha getting closer got to a stage where it now shows

card1: sndrpihifiberry

as part of the aplay -l output

but still no sound going out

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/7 "2016-02-05T17:38:35Z")

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Take a look in in your system logs for any problems during startup. Probably worth double checking there are some sensible volumes in `alsamixer`. Failing that, please post the full output of

- `aplay -l`
- `cat /etc/asound.conf`

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**Author:** ![TimGeyssens](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timgeyssens/32/322_2.png) [@TimGeyssens](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/TimGeyssens)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/8 "2016-02-05T20:16:17Z")

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it’s working now, thanks for the help! (did a fresh install and just changed the setting you suggested).

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/9 "2016-02-06T00:57:24Z")

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Great news, glad to hear it. And thank you for updating this thread.

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**Author:** ![Umut\_Makascioglu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/65b543/32.png) [@Umut\_Makascioglu](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Umut_Makascioglu)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/10 "2017-04-19T00:46:27Z")

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Hi, I have the same problem that TimGeyssens had. I have followed the guide and this post but to no avail. aplay -l output gives something very similar to card1: sndrpihifiberry and cat /etc/asound.conf gives;  
pcm.!default {  
type hw card 0  
}  
ctl.!default {  
type hw card 0  
}  
But no sound at all when I test the DAC. I also do not have any config file regarding/boot/config/settings.ini in boot directory. I am using the latest version of Raspbian as well.  
I would appreciate any help.  
Thank you.

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/11 "2017-04-19T07:04:03Z")

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This thread is regarding pimusicbox, not latest raspbian. [http://www.pimusicbox.com](http://www.pimusicbox.com)

This thread is also very old and the latest raspbian is not configured like this anymore.

Since your hifiberry is on card 1, I presume you have the onboard audio assigned to card 0. And your asound.conf file is set to use card 0. So either change that file to specify card 1 or disable the onboard sound (see the official raspberry pi documentation on how to do this properly on latest Raspbian).

If you are still having problems then please start your own topic in the normal (not pimusicbox) part of this forum and specify the full contents of ‘aplay -l’.

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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2564_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-output-card-found-raspberry-pi-zero-phat-dac-pi-musicbox/1099/12 "2026-02-19T11:47:18Z")

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