Old Raspberry Pi A/B: Solder the P5 header
Old Raspberry Pi A/B: Solder the P5 header
This is an archived documentation. It won't be updated anymore and it might not be accurate anymore.
On the Raspberry Pi model A and B, you’ll need to solder the pins that transport the sound signal to our boards. Note that this is not needed for our new DAC+ and Digi+ boards for the Raspberry Pi model A+, B+, 2B, 3B or Zero!
If you still own one of the older Raspberry Pis, check out this video. Soldering the connector is not very difficult:
Soldering HiFiBerry from HiFiBerry on Vimeo.