Volume Buttons on Pirate-Audio have no effect

Hi,
I have just got a Pirate-Audio hat on my Pi and Mopidy is working great.
When I was setting it up, I used the server light version of raspberry pi os not the desktop.
As a result I suspect that I am missing audio software (Alsa or Pulse??) to control volume. The volume buttons on the Pirate-Audio hat are not having any effect . Same with volume controls on mobile app. However the volume control in musicbox webclient works!
Any suggestions as to how I could fault find that problem??
Tom

Hi,
Problem solved. It was a case of adding
dtparam=audio=off
in /boot/config.txt

Tom

Strang, in my case dtparam=audio=off caused the buttons to not work. I had to edit it again and set it to on. Then after the reboot they worked again. I don’t know if it is because I have the smol, or because I also have a power shim soldered in between…