China Knockoff hifiberry, pifi digi+ configuration

I got one of these China knockoffs of the hifiberry board called the "pifi",  mostly because I want to dink around with making an MPD server and writing a crestron driver to control MPD in C#.   trying to find all the actual details for these is a pain considering they seem to be popular.... so what do you do?  I found the following in a random forum and it works perfect.   the official hifiberry doesn't have the IR receiver and that part was a key bit missing.

Configuration is dead simple: Plug in the board, add 2 lines to the config.txt and reboot. The config varies depending on the kernel version.

On current Debian Jesse (=Raspbian) it’s:

dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi
dtoverlay=lirc-rpi:gpio_in_pin=26

On OSMC it’s:

dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi-overlay
dtoverlay=lirc-rpi:gpio_in_pin=26

On older Debian (Wheezy) and Openelec 6 it’s:

dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi
dtoverlay=lirc-rpi,gpio_in_pin=26

Also on a pi. Pulseaudio is your enemy as always...  so you will have issues with it and MPD until you issue the following command to just outright remove pulseaudio. 



sudo apt remove pulseaudio