kodi misses spdif in audio passthrough on cubox i4

[zuseMember]

My last xbmc build from one year ago had two audio devices in kodi on my cubox i4. SPDIF and hdmi.

I upgraded to kodi build and there i have the Option “Default: SPDIF (analog output)” and hdmi.
My Receiver is connected via spdif.
Stereo/pcm works as expected, but i want pass through AC3 audio to SPDIF.

I can activate pass through, but i cannot select a target. Probaby because kodi thinks the default and hdmi is the same. Or the spdif is not recognized as a digital output.

I tried adding stuff to /etc/asound.conf and adding to guisettings.xml
ALSA:iec958:CARD=imxspdif,DEV=0
by hand, but it did not worked :-/

[zuseMember]

BTW is the forum or github issues the best place to discuss such things?

[Warped RudiModerator]

Arrggh! They changed the names in the device tree! Now the SPDIF device on a Hummingboard has a different name than on a CuBox-i. WTF.

Please edit /usr/share/alsa/cards/aliases.conf and add the following lines on top:

'On-board_SPDIF' cards.imx-spdif
'Integrated_SPDI' cards.imx-spdif

After restarting Kodi you should get the old behaviour back. Note that the last ‘F’ is missing by purpose in ‘Integrated_SPDI’ ?

[zuseMember]

Thank you very much for your quick solution!
Works perfect!

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