Audio configuration docs are incorrect/incomplete
dangarbri opened this issue · comments
I've been struggling to make the Codec Zero work in a headless environment. I don't know enough about alsa to make this work right...
I followed the instructions, and the codec zero hat works in the desktop environment when I right click the sound settings and select the codec zero, but I can't get it to work in the lite/headless version of the OS.
Specifically, this section in the docs doesn't work on the raspberry pi 4 model B.
documentation/documentation/asciidoc/accessories/audio/configuration.adoc
Lines 126 to 139 in 4ef432c
It will cause a ton of headaches:
root@raspberrypi:~# speaker-test
speaker-test 1.2.8
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Channels count (1) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument
Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument
Also, trying to restore the alsa state doesn't seem to work either
root@raspberrypi:~# sudo alsactl restore -f /home/pi/Pi-Codec/Codec_Zero_OnboardMIC_record_and_SPK_playback.state
alsa-lib main.c:1541:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use case configuration -2
root@raspberrypi:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Zero [RPi Codec Zero], device 0: Raspberry Pi Codec Zero HiFi da7213-hifi-0 [Raspberry Pi Codec Zero HiFi da7213-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
root@raspberrypi:~#
@nathan-contino I'll take this one, because I was last looking at all this about a month ago.
I appreciate any help 🙂
I'm available to test anything. I think it's odd that selecting the audio device in the desktop version works. I don't know what that's doing differently.
After tinkering some more, I think (maybe) the only issue is this.
pcm.!default {
type hw
card Zero
}
The alsactl command prints errors, but it still does what it's supposed to do. The codec zero won't work without running that.
So it's just setting the default device on the command line that has issues. On the desktop OS where I have everything working, if I run speaker-test without any arguments, it plays the pink noise as expected. But if I try to run speaker-test by manually specifying the device, it doesn't work:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: vc4hdmi0 [vc4-hdmi-0], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: vc4hdmi1 [vc4-hdmi-1], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones], device 0: bcm2835 Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 3: Zero [RPi Codec Zero], device 0: Raspberry Pi Codec Zero HiFi da7213-hifi-0 [Raspberry Pi Codec Zero HiFi da7213-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ speaker-test -D hw:3,0
speaker-test 1.2.8
Playback device is hw:3,0
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Channels count (1) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument
Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument
pi@raspberrypi:~ $