Seeing how well D10 performed on @amirm measurements, especially considering its very modest pricing, probably the same idea crossed minds of many of us: if only this little hero has volume control so it can be hooked directly to the amplifier! It would be even better if the volume could be controlled remotely. Well, luckilly, this could be done!
As I have shown in this thread (https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/my-review-of-topping-d10.3303/) If you hook up D10 via USB to a Raspberry Pi running Volumio you got yourself a nice setup to play your home music collection. This setup works especially well if your music collection resides on a NAS which is running UPnP media server (in my case it is Synology DS216 SE).
Once you got that to work, and it really isn't complicated even if you don't have any experience with Raspberry Pi, this is what you have to configure under the "Playback options/Volume options":
Volumio chief developer claims that in this scenario "hardware mixer sets the appropriate registers in the DAC allowing to have bit perfect volume control" and that "all volume related processing is done by DAC and not by Volumio".
Once you got that to work this is what you need to do under the settings of your BubbleUPnP app on your Android phone (Volume keys and Volume step):
After that you will be able to control the volume with the volume keys of your Android phone.
This is how it looks when playing (notice that volume value is set to "15"):
If you want to do the same from your Windows PC you should use Linn Kazoo app which is available here:
https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4np11
This is how it looks (notice that Kazoo automatically got the volume value of 15 as was set by BubbleUPnP):
BubbleUPnP and Kazoo will automatically synchonise with each other not only the volume level but the playing queue as well as both of them are UPnP controllers handling Volumio which is acting as UPnP renderer. If you have UPnP media server on your local network your music collection will be available to both of them without any configuration needed on Volumio side.
As I have shown in this thread (https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/my-review-of-topping-d10.3303/) If you hook up D10 via USB to a Raspberry Pi running Volumio you got yourself a nice setup to play your home music collection. This setup works especially well if your music collection resides on a NAS which is running UPnP media server (in my case it is Synology DS216 SE).
Once you got that to work, and it really isn't complicated even if you don't have any experience with Raspberry Pi, this is what you have to configure under the "Playback options/Volume options":
Volumio chief developer claims that in this scenario "hardware mixer sets the appropriate registers in the DAC allowing to have bit perfect volume control" and that "all volume related processing is done by DAC and not by Volumio".
Once you got that to work this is what you need to do under the settings of your BubbleUPnP app on your Android phone (Volume keys and Volume step):
After that you will be able to control the volume with the volume keys of your Android phone.
This is how it looks when playing (notice that volume value is set to "15"):
If you want to do the same from your Windows PC you should use Linn Kazoo app which is available here:
https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4np11
This is how it looks (notice that Kazoo automatically got the volume value of 15 as was set by BubbleUPnP):
BubbleUPnP and Kazoo will automatically synchonise with each other not only the volume level but the playing queue as well as both of them are UPnP controllers handling Volumio which is acting as UPnP renderer. If you have UPnP media server on your local network your music collection will be available to both of them without any configuration needed on Volumio side.
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