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Overview
This is a sound card HAT designed for Raspberry Pi, low power consumption, supports stereo encoding / decoding, features Hi-Fi playing / recording,
what's more, it can directly drive speakers to play music.
Features:
Raspberry Pi connectivity, compatible with Raspberry Pi Zero/Zero W/Zero WH/2B/3B/3B+
Integrates WM8960 low power stereo CODEC, communicates via I2S interface
Integrates dual high-quality MEMS silicon Mic, supports left & right double channels recording, nice sound quality
Onboard standard 3.5mm earphone jack, play music via external earphone
Onboard dual-channel speaker interface, directly drives speakers
Supports sound effects such as stereo, 3D surrounding, etc.
Comes with development resources and manual (python demo code for playing / recording)
Specifications:
Codec : WM8960
Power supply: 5 V.
Logic voltage: 3.3 V.
Control interface: I2C.
Audio interface: I2S.
DAC signal-noise ratio: 98 dB.
ADC signal noise ratio: 94 dB.
Earphone driver: 40mW (16Ω@3.3V).
Speaker driver: 1W per channel (8Ω BTL).
Development Resources
Wiki : www.waveshare.com/wiki/WM8960_Audio_HAT?Amazon
Package contents:
Note: Raspberry Pi in the photos is NOT included.
WM8960 Audio Hat x1
1 x 8Ω 5 W speaker.
RPi screws pack (2pcs) x1
Jacob Y
Reviewed in Canada on February 23, 2025
The description boasts some kind of amazing quality with the speakers and mic. But the reality is they sound like an older computer speaker. Voices sound a little bit muffled, and I definitely wouldn't play music with it. I used it for a voice assistant- so it was acceptable quality for mee.But the quality is just not as described in the ad. This may or may not be a problem depending on your project.
Omar cortez
Reviewed in Mexico on January 9, 2025
Es compatible y funciona bien con raspberry pi zero, 2w y 5, pero no es compatible con la pantalla de la misma marca (Waveshare) 2.8inch DPI LCD ya que compiten por el uso de los mismos GPIO, en pocas palabras o tienes audio o tienes video… al menos con esos productos, el sonido es claro y nítido en agudos y medios, bajos mas o menos, para un proyecto de una mp3 player que transmita algo en loop esta prefecto, pero nada mas, pero pueden usar el puerto jack u otras bocinas con mejor calidad de audio, en mi caso deje la pantalla y programe la salida del audio por bluetooth, la tarjeta de audio la voy a reciclar en algún otro proyecto
Tony Henrie
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
I bought two of these units to make locally functioning voice controlled smart devices for automating some functions in my home, using the Wyoming protocols with Home Assistant. It seems to be working. It is handy that this unit comes with a pair of speakers and has stereo mics and stereo output. I am quite pleased with them. Make sure you follow the instructions for installing the drivers.
Luis Alberto Moran Vasquez
Reviewed in Spain on December 6, 2024
I am using WM8960 Audio hat with my raspberry pi 4 8gb and with the help of chatGPT it's working great thank you for your business
FRED
Reviewed in France on February 26, 2023
Enceintes et carte de bonne qualité , reçu bien emballé dans des pochettes anti statique, vraiment pas déçu du rapport qualité-prix
Alonda
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022
I used this as a microphone and speaker for using voice commands to contol Home Assistant. I would buy again for sure. The microphone sensitivity is as good or better that the Jabra 410 and 510's I'm using with the Libre LePotato Pi3 clone. The speakers work fine doing text to speech for my use, but would not be for playing music in my opinion. If I can find a 3d printed case for the Pi3 board with the hat I would probably replace the Jabras and have a all-in-one device
John
Reviewed in Germany on April 25, 2022
Works great.Instructions are good.But you have to run the install driver command twice it have to be said. The first time nothing happens. Took me like 2 weeks to figure out when I sat down and gave it a second try to install the driver and get it up and running.
Supa
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2021
Very easy to install, as normal Raspberry setup to use ...just follow the instructions from their site . The latest software for Debian had some flow like volume button was not mapped to sound (it was linked to 3D volume) which did not help control sound like easy. Using bookshelf speaker, that Sounds very good. Supplied speaker are ok but not used much, just tested it. Stereo Microphone on the board , not sure how it will work once I put it inside a box.
ZeroCool
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020
Beware that the drivers for this are not include with Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian) so be prepared to install them yourself. The instructions are available from the Waveshare website in form of a PDF manual.And basically you have to clone a github repository and then use the provided script which uses dkms to build a driver (downloads kernel headers).And this process does not always work smoothly. I was not able to get it working on the latest buster image and decide to install an older stretch image which finally worked.Other than that headache this seems like a great deal as speakers are included. I am using it as a home doorbell on an old raspberry pi zero to play customized audio over the speakers when someone rings the bell.
Todd
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2020
Good speakers good quality sound from the speakers but the programming for the board needs a major update could not get it to work I even paid a company to install it could not get it to work the cellar was very hesitant on giving up the right software to use for it I had to give it a star in order to write a review but personally I would give it a negative 50 stars and five stars for the speakers
Jim Link
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2019
I installed this HAT on a Raspberry Pi, intending to use it as a voice-control module for a robot. I followed the installation instructions precisely, and I did get several small recording created using the onboard microphones.But the speaker connections refuse to work. I searched all over the Web and found no help. The posts all say "use the command-line alsamixer utility to turn up the volume." I did that, and still no sound.
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