# Lost Sound on the PiDog **URL:** \ **Category:** Robotic kit for Raspberry Pi\ **Created:** [February 16, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652 "2025-02-16T08:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seachellemz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@seachellemz](https://forum.sunfounder.com/u/seachellemz)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652/1 "2025-02-16T08:31:56Z")
I had sound working at one point on the pidog, but I have now lost it. I have rerun the i2samp.sh script multiple times, rebooted multiple times, I have run sudo killall pulseaudio sudo killall aplay, but have not been successful at getting the audio working. Here is the output I am now getting when I run i2samp.sh: sudo bash i2samp.sh install robot-hat soundcard driver \>\>\> script version: 0.0.4 user: azaremskas apt update… Hit:1 [Index of /raspbian](http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian) bullseye InRelease Hit:2 [Index of /debian](http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian) bullseye InRelease Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done All packages are up to date. install alsa-utils … Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done alsa-utils is already the newest version (1.2.4-1+rpt1). The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfuse2 Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. install pulseaudio … Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done pulseaudio is already the newest version (14.2-2+rpt1). The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfuse2 Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. install pulseaudio-utils … Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done pulseaudio-utils is already the newest version (14.2-2+rpt1). The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfuse2 Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. install jq … Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done jq is already the newest version (1.6-2.1). The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfuse2 Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. install sox … Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done sox is already the newest version (14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2). The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfuse2 Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. check robothat 5 … find: ‘/proc/device-tree/_hat_’: No such file or directory hat\_dir: No robothat 5 found robothat\_spk\_en: 20 is\_with\_mic: false config soundcard without mic … add dtoverlay hifiberry-dac in /boot/config.txt … activated dtoverlay hifiberry-dac … Trying to load dtoverlay hifiberry-dac … get\_soundcard\_index … soundcard sndrpihifiberry index: 0 config /etc/asound.conf without mic … set ALSA speker volume to 100% … Simple mixer control ‘robot-hat speaker’,0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] config pulseaudio … raspi-config enable pulseaudio … run pulseaudio … get\_sink\_index … pactl: invalid option – ‘f’ sink index not found. Sometimes you need to reboot to activate the soundcard. set default sink … sink index is null set default Pulseaudio volume to 100% … Do you wish to test speaker now? [y/N] y testing speaker … speaker-test 1.2.4 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16\_LE, 2 channels WAV file(s) Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) Buffer size range from 2229 to 8916 Period size range from 1114 to 1115 Using max buffer size 8916 Periods = 4 was set period\_size = 1114 was set buffer\_size = 8916 0 - Front Left Write error: -32,Broken pipe 1 - Front Right Write error: -32,Broken pipe Write error: -32,Broken pipe Time per period = 16.027757 0 - Front Left 1 - Front Right Time per period = 3.040588 0 - Front Left 1 - Front Right Time per period = 3.018514 All done! I have also attached a photo of the speaker on the HAT. ---
**Author:** ![seachellemz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@seachellemz](https://forum.sunfounder.com/u/seachellemz)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652/2 "2025-02-16T08:33:45Z")
![IMG_0595](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/sunfounder/original/2X/e/e922207928e43360b6c123b2109b84a861429a71.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![SunFounder\_Moderator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SunFounder\_Moderator](https://forum.sunfounder.com/u/SunFounder_Moderator)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652/3 "2025-02-17T14:47:57Z")
Please contact the after-sales email: [service@sunfounder.com](mailto:service@sunfounder.com) and they will arrange to send you a replacement speaker. ---
**Author:** ![seachellemz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@seachellemz](https://forum.sunfounder.com/u/seachellemz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652/4 "2025-02-17T15:13:35Z")
See the email below. Can you please send the replacement speaker to Michelle Zaremskas 3333 S Atlantic Ave, APT 1904 Daytona Beach, FL 32118 Please share the tracking information so that I can keep an eye out for it. Michelle Z ---
**Author:** ![SunFounder\_Moderator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SunFounder\_Moderator](https://forum.sunfounder.com/u/SunFounder_Moderator)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652/5 "2025-02-18T06:45:00Z")
We will have an after-sales person contact you later. ---
**Author:** ![trebor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@trebor](https://forum.sunfounder.com/u/trebor)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652/6 "2025-02-21T21:07:16Z")
I have exactly the same problem. Suddenly the sound stopped and cannot be reinitialized. The speaker seems burnt (brown edge)… So I contacted the support… ---
**Author:** ![trebor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@trebor](https://forum.sunfounder.com/u/trebor)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652/7 "2025-02-22T11:18:16Z")
I think the reason might be, that the loudspeaker is placed on the RobotHat unfortunately dircetly above the Raspberry Pi 4 B CPU…this is quite “hot” place. If I hopefully by any chance get a replacement, I recommend putting it somewhere else in the PiDog “body”…if you use a Raspberry 4B… ---
**Author:** ![SunFounder\_Moderator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SunFounder\_Moderator](https://forum.sunfounder.com/u/SunFounder_Moderator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.sunfounder.com/t/lost-sound-on-the-pidog/2652/8 "2025-02-24T10:11:11Z")
Thank you very much for your suggestion. Our next robot hat upgrade, the speaker will be put on the top side of the pin.