WM8960 Audio HAT Module for Raspberry Pi 4B/3B+/3B/2B/B+/A+/Zero W/Pi Zero WH, WM8960 Hi-Fi Sound Card HAT, Stereo CODEC, Play/Record

These were exactly what I needed for my project. I expected the sound to be so-so, but it was excellent for the size and the price, and they'll get very loud if you want. They were easy to integrate into my project, since the speaker enclosures had mounting holes. Installing the driver was trouble-free, they worked flawlessly after I installed and rebooted.

Popped this puppy on the top of a Pi 4 running an updated PiOS (bullseye) ran the install script.It installed kernel headers, did its install routine and upon reboot is completely functional.This was great considering higher price solutions (respeaker) only supports older versions of the OS.If you want a basic audio card for a pi and don't mind using the microphones on the board this is the card for you.

I ordered two of these to configure with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and had no issues getting it work. Speakers sound decent and the microphones worked fine.

I have not had much luck getting this to work consistently. I get a lot of static sometimes (depends on the version of Rasbian I am using). Other times I have to reboot my Raspberry Pi 3b several times to get it to work. From what I have been able to determine the drivers are no longer being updated, I have done every command line programming change that I have found on the internet and never could get it to work consistently. Your mileage may vary depending on the hardware you are using and the software. I started off with MiczFlor RPi-Jukebox and switched to Volumio. I did not have good success with ether program. I finally broke down and bought a USB amp and got things working is short order. On the occasion I did get it to work correctly, it does have good sound enough volume for my application. The only good outcome from this mess is I know a bunch more about ALSA and how to work with it than ever before.

This is a good clone of the SeeedStudio re-speaker two-hat, but the ALC functionality of the WM8960 chip still doesn't give Alexa-level noise-cancellation (nothing does, really). I ended up ditching the dual microphones of this hat, and using a 20 year old Gateway microphone, BUT using the amplifier portions of this hat for the speakers. Very handy!Wave provides fantastic instructions on how to install the drivers and test them. But if you're going with a wyoming-satellite, you can also follow the 2-mic instructions in that repo and this card will work.