From:  Eric Fort <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  <[email protected]>
Date:  Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 2:13 PM
To:  beagleboard <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Audio Cape Rev B audio Input

> in my use of audio and this card from the console I found alasmixer much
> easier to use.  I just went through and set all the levels to 100% and it
> works well.  Try using alsamixer it should get things fixed up in an easy and
> intuitive way.  F1 and the man page cover the controls.
This is true, and if you run alsamixer in a SSH session, it looks much
better than in a tty console like minicom.

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Raphael Philipe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It seems that I messed with the amixer parameters. Now I can not even
>> hear from the speaker test. Is there a way of reseting alsa
>> parameters, not only the general audio volume?
>> 
>> I saw something like
>> alsactl restore -P
>> and removing '/var/lib/alsa/asound.state
>> but it didn't work for parameters specifically to the DA830 EVM.
>> 
>> Why the audio cape is recognized as a DA830 EVM?
>> 
>> I suspect that the audio input is not working due to one of that parameters.
>> 
>> Regards, Raphael.
>> 
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:22 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > From: Raphael Philipe <[email protected]>
>>> > Reply-To: <[email protected]>
>>> > Date: Sunday, May 18, 2014 at 3:30 PM
>>> > To: <[email protected]>
>>> > Subject: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Audio Cape Rev B audio Input
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > I've acquired an Audio Cape Rev B
>>> > http://elinux.org/CircuitCo:Audio_Cape_RevB for my Beaglebone Black.
>>> >
>>> > Following the instructions I was able to make it work. The audio playback
>>> is
>>> > working pretty well. However, I cannot test the audio input. I saw that it
>>> > is a line level input (line in), so it cannot be connected to a regular
>>> > microphone.
>>> >
>>> > I want to test it through an echo scheme. I will produce some sound
>>> through
>>> > q source (connected to the line in input of the cape) and check the
>>> response
>>> > in the audio output, through an earphone.
>>> >
>>> > I tried to connect the cape line in to the earphone output of an old
>>> > cellphone through a male male jack cable (I saw in some forums that the
>>> line
>>> > level is similar to the earphone output of some appliances, apart from the
>>> > impedance difference.). Unfortunately, it didn't work.
>>> >
>>> > The interesting thing is that when the cable is connected to the cape
>>> audio
>>> > input and the other connector is unplluged, I can hear the noise from
>>> > static, similar to an unplugged to the amplifier electric guitar .
>>> >
>>> > Can someone suggest me a simple form to test the audio input?
>>> >
>>> > I don¹t have the Audio Cape, but I do have a TLV320AIC3106EVM connected to
>>> > my BBB and it works fine. You may want to try the following command:
>>> >
>>> > arecord -r 44100 -c 1 -f S16_LE -t wav -vv -d 25 example.wav
>>> >
>>> > This will show you a bar graph in the terminal so you can see the input
>>> > levels. I would just connect the output from you phone to the line input
>>> of
>>> > your audio cape. In another terminal, run amixer to adjust the input
>>> levels.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > John
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Regards.
>>> >
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