Adafruit Stereo Speaker Bonnet Raspberry Review

I bought this to build an AirPlay radio with Raspberry Zero and it works great! Doesn't do much, but is normal for my workshop.

Difficult to set up, not compatible with popular A/V software (Kodi, LibreELEC). It could be a great board if it worked with Kodi, but it doesn't! I've tried setting it up with Raspbian and Kodi but it doesn't work. It is a pity!

I use it in portable Retropie. It was very easy to set up. The headers came pre-soldered and just plugged directly into my Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins with no problems. The speakers I ordered came with the wrong connector so I just soldered two terminals, cut the connector from the wires and connected them that way. They then simply ran the script from the adafuit website a few times and I heard the exquisite sounds of Donkey Kong Country almost immediately. All in all, the whole process took…

I used this to make a white noise machine for my daughter. This was my first foray into a hardware project. I soldered the connector to the Pi Zero, soldered the leads to this cap, and then attached the cap. After several hours of troubleshooting due to the lack of sound (I was sure I had screwed up the soldering somewhere), I realized that I just hadn't pushed the head cover far enough. Once I pushed it all the way down (the pins on the Pi should touch the hood) it worked great. It's such a…

I built a Simon game (battery operated) using a Raspberry Pi Zero, 4x20 LCD, 4 LED buttons and sound. The map is great, but I had to disable the /dev/zero rendering service. Unlike other sound cards, see the Adafruit website for detailed instructions and documentation on which RPI (GPIO) pins are used to pair with the LCD and identify potential PIN conflicts. It didn't work for me with Audioinjector Zero, for example. But Speaker Bonnet is great and the documentation and stable driver really…

Virtually useless due to poor design. The 4 pin connector is very loose and for the sound to appear I had to press the connector but again it started popping and clapping. To circumvent this faulty component, I cut the 4-pin connector off my speakers to use the left and right connectors instead, but they didn't work at all! I hooked up tons of speaker wire so I didn't "do it wrong", those connectors just didn't receive a signal. I've re-stripped my wires, re-wired them many times, even tried…

Purchased with a set of stereo speakers 3W 4Ohm. Wanted to add this to the Alexa/Echo RPI3 setup. I have to go back to using a USB or 3.5mm port, which I didn't want to do. Spent so much time meticulously soldering all the pins for fear this would be the hard part, which it wasn't, it just took time. Later that night plugged in the hood, booted up, ran the script from their website and rebooted. And nothing. A reboot causes a popping noise from the speakers, but no new hardware is listed in the

A great little addition to your Raspberry Pi as it not only includes digital audio but also a 3W amplifier - meaning you can hook up bookshelf speakers and go to town . This is how I configured mine to get full software volume control: in /boot/config.txt:dtoverlay=i2s-mmapdtoverlay=hifiberry-dacdtparam=spi=onin /etc/asound.conf:pcm.hifiberry { type softvol slave . pcm "plughw:0" control.name "Master" control.card 0}pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "softvol"}pcm.softvol { slave { pcm…