Image based on https://github.com/shawaj/ifi-tidal-release and https://github.com/seniorgod/ifi-tidal-release. Please visit https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=297771 for full information on the backround of this project.

I have been hapilly using HifiberryOS but beeing an extremely slim OS (based on Buildroot) has its pitfalls, that there is no easy way of extending its current features. Thankfully the Hifiberry Team have blessed us by providing Docker and Docker-Compose within OS. As I didnt want to add yet another system for Tidal integration (e.g. Bluesound, Volumio), i stumbled upon this https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360013667717-Tidal-Connect-, and i decided to do something about it.

1. SSH into your Raspberry and clone/copy this repository onto your system.

# On HifiberryOS 
git clone https://github.com/TonyTromp/tidal-connect-docker.git
cd tidal-connect-docker

2. Install and run

./install.sh

ENJOY ! ;)

This will download the Docker image from github and install and start TIDAL Connect as a service. In addition it will also add a new UI Source to HifiBerry called TIDAL Connect which you can use to start/stop the service

3. Start/Stopping

You can either start or stop the TIDAL Service via the HifiBerry Sources menu or via command-line. If you rather use command line, you might find these scripts handy.

./start-tidal-service.sh
./stop-tidal-service.sh

4. Trouble shooting

There are known issues whereas playback is not working, as the DAC is not recognized. You can check the logs from the Docker image by running:

docker logs docker_tidal-connect_1

This will list some debug information usefull for trouble shooting. You can explicitly set the DAC playback device in the Docker/entrypoint.sh file.

For 'HifiBerry Digi+ Pro', if it doesnt work out-of-the-box, you will need to edit the Docker/entrypoint.sh and use "snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi: HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 (hw:0,0)" as default playback device (like below).

/app/ifi-tidal-release/bin/tidal_connect_application \
   --tc-certificate-path "/app/ifi-tidal-release/id_certificate/IfiAudio_ZenStream.dat" \
   -f "HiFiBerry" \
   --playback-device "snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi: HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 (hw:0,0)" \
   --codec-mpegh true \
   --codec-mqa false \
   --model-name "HiFiBerry" \
   --disable-app-security false \
   --disable-web-security false \
   --enable-mqa-passthrough false \
   --log-level 3 \
   --enable-websocket-log "0" \

Build the docker image (OPTIONAL!):

NOTE: I have already uploaded a pre-build docker image to Docker Hub for you. This means you can skip this time consuming step to build the image manually, and use the pre-build image unless you need to add something to the base image. However for those who like to thinker, you can add other things to the docker image if you would like to.

# Go to the <tidal-connect-docker>/Docker path
cd tidal-connect-docker-master/Docker

# Build the image
./build_docker.sh

Running as daemon without using docker-compose

 docker run -td \
 --network="host" \
 --dns 8.8.8.8 \
 --device /dev/snd \
 -v /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus \
 edgecrush3r/tidal-connect:latest 

docker run -ti \
 --network="host" \
 --dns 8.8.8.8 \
 --device /dev/snd \
 -v /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus \
 edgecrush3r/tidal-connect \
 /bin/bash

List Devices

docker run -ti \
--device /dev/snd \
-v /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus \
-v /var/run/avahi-daemon/socket:/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket \
--entrypoint /app/ifi-tidal-release/bin/ifi-pa-devs-get edgecrush3r/tidal-connect

If you need to alter any parameters, just change the entrypoint.sh to contain whatever settinsgs you need The entrypoint.sh file/command is executed upon start of the container and mounted via docker-compose.