Speaker Bonnet on Raspberry Pi 4 - No errors and no sound

[D4na]

I recently purchased the Adafruit Speaker Bonnet with the 3W enclosed speaker set for use on my Pi 4 with Raspbian Buster. I ran the script from the guide here and did not receive any errors, but after rebooting and running the script again, the audio test produced no sound. I then went through the detailed install guide to verify that the the setup script ran correctly and everything looked good.

I'm not sure if it matters, but I've soldered the data input of a Neopixel strip to pin #12 on the speaker bonnet and they appear to be working fine that way.

I'm a bit a green when it comes to Raspberry Pi and Linux, so I apologize if I'm not providing necessary information. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[mikeysklar]

Can you post a photo of your soldering?

Are you able to see the speaker bonnet from the OS?

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aplay -l

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lsusb

[D4na]

I've attached a photo of my soldering. The 2x20 header arrived pre-soldered to the bonnet. You can see my solder on pin 12 and the two terminal blocks.

Here's the output of aplay -l

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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 [HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

and lsusb

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Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0644:0000 TEAC Corp. Floppy
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Thanks again for your help and advice.

[mikeysklar]

Okay, aplay shows the speaker bonnet is being discovered correctly on Card 0/0.

You probably need to adjust your output device.

Are you running The Pi OS GUI where you can adjust the output device and volume from the top right corner? It's probably trying to play over HDMI.

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-spe ... -2711202-3

[D4na]

When I right click on the speaker icon on the top right corner, it says something to the effect of "no output devices available." I tried adjusting the volume using alsamixer, but that didn't seem to make a difference. Unfortunately, I'm not going to have access to the pi or the speaker bonnet for the following two weeks as they're going to be part of a university art show, but I'll check again when I get it back and follow up here.

[mikeysklar]

You are doing the correct gesture trying to right click on the speaker. Your Pi should see the HDMI, AV Jack and Bonnet as output devices. This is what mine looks like. I use a fancy DAC to output audio.

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You might want to run raspi-config on your pi from the command line and see what your audio settings are.