Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2022-01-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:59:11 GMT Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Has Raspbian perhaps switched to using PipeWire for audio I wonder? > Pipewire is meant to overcome the many issues with Pulseaudio so I > wonder if they might have done that, and that is the cause of the old > commands not

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2022-01-02 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 02/01/2022 10:54, Terry Coles wrote: On Sunday, 2 January 2022 09:53:48 GMT Terry Coles wrote: Initially it didn't work, but then I realised that pulseaudio probably wasn't installed by default in Raspberry PI OS Lite. After installation I got a permission error, but it worked after a

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2022-01-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 2 January 2022 09:53:48 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > Initially it didn't work, but then I realised that pulseaudio probably > wasn't installed by default in Raspberry PI OS Lite. After installation I > got a permission error, but it worked after a reboot. This is weird. Installing

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2022-01-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 1 January 2022 10:23:26 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > Things have moved on. I have two Pis configured to use these speaker > bonnets; a Pi 3 to play the music in the Nave and a Pi Zero to play the > bells and chimes in the tower. It turns out that amixer works fine on the > Pi 3 but as

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2022-01-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 31 December 2021 17:40:58 GMT Patrick Wigmore wrote: > This looks like it should be a valid command, based on the > configuration you listed and according to the amixer man page that's > in the Debian bullseye alsa-utils package. Things have moved on. I have two Pis configured to use

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 31 December 2021 17:40:58 GMT Patrick Wigmore wrote: > This looks like it should be a valid command, based on the > configuration you listed and according to the amixer man page that's > in the Debian bullseye alsa-utils package. It was certainly valid when I originally wrote it about

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:21:34 +, Terry Coles wrote: > I need the volume to be controllable from my Python program, so I > set it once at the beginning when the program is launched, eg: > > amixer -c 0 set PCM 100 This looks like it should be a valid command, based on the configuration you

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 31 December 2021 17:03:07 GMT PeterMerchant wrote: > On my desktop (Kubuntu 20.04) > > Amixer gives: > > peterm@peterm-MBB-34204H:~$ amixer > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 >Capabilities: pvolume >Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right >Limits: Playback 0 - 31 >

Re: [Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread PeterMerchant
On 31/12/2021 16:21, Terry Coles wrote: I'm beginning to think that upgrading the music and bells Pis to bullseye might have been a bit premature. I cannot get amixer to work properly. The sound card is an Adafruit Speaker Bonnet. The code shown below worked under buster. Here is the

[Dorset] Cannot Set the Volume Using amixer under bullseye

2021-12-31 Thread Terry Coles
I'm beginning to think that upgrading the music and bells Pis to bullseye might have been a bit premature. I cannot get amixer to work properly. The sound card is an Adafruit Speaker Bonnet. The code shown below worked under buster. Here is the configuration: pi@minster-bells:~ $ amixer