Waveshare WM8960 Audio HAT
A Raspberry Pi HAT with a WM8960 codec, two microphones, a headphone jack and speaker outputs.
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When to pick it
You want stereo speaker output and microphones on a Raspberry Pi from one HAT.
About it
Waveshare's WM8960 Audio HAT. Its codec sits at I2C 0x1A, exactly where the ReSpeaker 2-Mics HAT v1.x puts the same codec, so the board cannot tell the two apart and asks which one it is (AUDIO_HAT=wm8960-soundcard). The overlay ships with the Raspberry Pi kernel (Alpine linux-rpi carries wm8960-soundcard.dtbo).
Where to buy
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Facts
Tested
It is in our catalog, but nobody has checked it on a real board. It may not work yet. Its driver is written, but it has not been tested on hardware yet.
I2C address
The Waveshare WM8960 Audio HAT answers at I2C address 0x1A. Whether the address can be changed is not recorded in this catalog.
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This record was last changed on October 13, 2026.