Alexa and Max2Play on one RPI3

I managed to get Alex working simultaneously with Max2Play on one RPI3 with no soundcard through the headphone jack. I did this by installing Max2Play as a player on my existing multiroom set up and then following a number of instructions on adding Alexa to a standard Jessie install. It seemed to work ok – I could play via multiroom system and also ask Alexa. Due to limitations of Alexa on RPI3 that Amazon set/available skills, it does not interact with Squeeze and cannot play music so was limited to only questions but made my RPI3 a dual use device through one speaker. The key thing to make it work was using Pulseaudio system wide.

I thought I would try to get it working with a Hifiberry DAC+ card so I could get better sound, but this does not give any sound. I went through the same process, but selecting card in Max2Play which gave sound output ok when just Max2Play in place. As soon as I had been through the Alexa install process, I had no sound. I tried the Pulseaudio solution again but still no sound and tried a few other changes but no success.

Has anyone any ideas on what might cause this or if it can be made to work or is it asking for the impossible? I’m not sure what info to post – I added Audioplayer debug info at the bottom and the websites that show the process I followed – worked without card, but not with card.

I aslo ran a debugging script: cd ~ && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi-misc/master/alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh
which gave the following output: –
cat: /sys/module/snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus/parameters/*: No such file or directory

http://lifehacker.com/the-simplest-way-to-build-a-raspberry-pi-powered-amazon-1794218212
https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi/wiki/Audio-setup-&-debugging#pulseaudio

#### SQUEEZELITE VERSION ####
Squeezelite Max2Play v1.0.1 based on v1.8.4-726, Copyright 2012-2015 Adrian Smith, 2015-2016 Ralph Irving.
 

#### SQUEEZELITE BUILDOPTIONS ####
Build options: LINUX ALSA EVENTFD RESAMPLE FFMPEG VISEXPORT IR GPIO DSD CONTROLSBS ALSASYNC BLUETOOTHSYNC
 

#### AUDIOPLAYER CONFIG ####
### Configuration of Audioplayers
SQUEEZELITE_PARAMETER=-o sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry -a 80:4::
SQUEEZESLAVE_PARAMETER=-n plugequal
SHAIRPORT_PARAMETER=-d plug:default
USE_USB_DAC=0
USE_EQUALIZER=0
SYSTEM_USER=pi
YMPD_PARAMETER=--webport 8081
 

#### SQUEEZELITE -l ####
Output devices:
  default                        - Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
  null                           - Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
  pulse                          - PulseAudio Sound Server
  equal                         
  plugequal                      - Equalizer for plughw:0,0
  sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry - snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus,  - Default Audio Device
  dmix:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 - snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus,  - Direct sample mixing device
  dsnoop:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 - snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus,  - Direct sample snooping device
  hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0  - snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus,  - Direct hardware device without any conversions
  plughw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 - snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus,  - Hardware device with all software conversions
  sysdefault:CARD=Device         - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - Default Audio Device
  front:CARD=Device,DEV=0        - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - Front speakers
  surround21:CARD=Device,DEV=0   - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - 2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
  surround40:CARD=Device,DEV=0   - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
  surround41:CARD=Device,DEV=0   - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
  surround50:CARD=Device,DEV=0   - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
  surround51:CARD=Device,DEV=0   - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
  surround71:CARD=Device,DEV=0   - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
  iec958:CARD=Device,DEV=0       - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
  dmix:CARD=Device,DEV=0         - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - Direct sample mixing device
  dsnoop:CARD=Device,DEV=0       - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - Direct sample snooping device
  hw:CARD=Device,DEV=0           - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - Direct hardware device without any conversions
  plughw:CARD=Device,DEV=0       - USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio - Hardware device with all software conversions

 

#### SHAIRPORT VERSION ####
2.8.0-openssl-Avahi-ALSA-soxr
 

#### OUTPUT SOUND DETAILS CARD 0 ####
access: RW_INTERLEAVED
format: S32_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 44100 (44100/1)
period_size: 882
buffer_size: 3528
 

#### OUTPUT SOUND DETAILS CARD 1 ####