Allo boss2 acrylic dac - enable the OLED display

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Allo company did not include instructions for Rune or rAudio to get the Python script running that interfaces and enables the OLED display of the Allo Boss2 dac.

rAudio is running on ARCH linux with python 3+, as is roPieee :-)

So, with a few modifications in the installation scripts I managed to get the display running and the remote control responding.

First followed the instructions at https://github.com/allocom/allo_boss2_oled_p3
but, when running the install-script, nothing seems to happen; the script looks at the hostname and executes related code accordingly. It does not run any code if no match is found.

from the script "/opt/boss2_oled_p3/install_boss2_oled.sh" the following was copied, pasted, and modified occasionally:

pacman -S python-pip
pacman -S gcc
pip install RPi.GPIO
pip install smbus
pacman -S python-pillow
pacman -S inetutils

echo "i2c-dev" >> /etc/modules-load.d/raspberrypi.conf
cp /opt/boss2_oled_p3/ropieee-boss2-oled.service /etc/systemd/system/boss2-oled.service
systemctl enable boss2-oled.service

reboot

done on:

rAudio 20221210
5.15.78-1 aarch64
Raspberry Pi 3B Rev 1.2
BCM2837 • 951 MiB
4 x Cortex-A53 @ 1.20 GHz

Now only to find out how to get the hardware volume control working; the included remote control seems to change the volume in a different (better ?) way.

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RPI 3B with image rAudio-RPi2-20230130.img.xz :

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/allocom/allo_boss2_oled_p3/main/boss2_oled_p3.tar.gz --output /opt/boss2_oled_p3.tar.gz
cd /opt/
tar -zxvf boss2_oled_p3.tar.gz

pacman -Syu
pacman -S python-pip
pacman -S gcc
pip uninstall RPi.GPIO
pip install RPi.GPIO
pacman -S python-pillow
pacman -S inetutils

echo "i2c-dev" >> /etc/modules-load.d/raspberrypi.conf
cp /opt/boss2_oled_p3/ropieee-boss2-oled.service /etc/systemd/system/boss2-oled.service
systemctl enable boss2-oled.service

reboot