Hi Igor, First of all, i change subject of email to something more relevant here. I think that a lot of people was spammed with subject "Hi" of your email. Second. Please do not drop media maillist and contacts from c/c. And third, sorry for long delay. On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Igor Stamatovski <stamatovski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Alexey, seems like things have changed from the last time i was playing > with the radio cards. > > This ADS Tech InstantFM card i have, even though i bought couple of them > now, i see that the company is not active and the reference design for this > card is not supported. > On the site i found some information about first boot of the usb. There is > windows software that sets up the card with initial parameters like spacing > band etc... > > With the driver you can set all those parameters in /etc/modules > I used the source to see what those settings mean, and applied to the > /etc/modules > > radio-usb-si470x de=1 band=0 space=1 //this all means europe bands and > spacing > snd_usb_audio > usbhid > > Im using 12.10 ubuntu 32bit with latest upgades, with fmtools package and > radio application both installed from ubuntu repo. > > the thing is that i must route audio from the FM card to the audio card to > hear audio. > I can do this with arecord -c2 -q -r96000 -f S16_LE > i can pipe this to aplay so it looks like this: > > arecord -c2 -q -r96000 -f S16_LE | aplay -q > > i can also make initial scan with the radio application > > radio -S > > which scans whole band and recognizes local stations, then creates the > config file in the directory where the radio app is started. > > Up to here everything works as expected... > > next thing is to use fmtools to set the card to a specific freq... > > you do this with > fm on //unmute the card > fm 95.5 100 //should set the card to 95.5Mhz and set the volume to 100% > after this the command exits and mutes the radio automatically or maybe > resets the band... > > same thing happens with radio application. radio has switch -q which tells > the application to exit interactive mode in order to be used from command > line. > so > radio -f 95.5 -q > should set the freq to 95.5 and exit the application but the radio should > continue operating with this settings. What happens is the radio gets muted > or changes band..... Well, last time i checked fmtools/radio programs i thought that they used V4L version 1. I don't know if it will work well nowadays. I experimented with my Kworld usb radio that uses the same driver (radio-si470x). I use sox to redirect sound from radio: sox --endian little -c 2 -S -r 96000 -t alsa hw:1 -t alsa -r 96000 hw:0 (i have problem with "alsa: under-run" because of sound card and radio are connected to the usb ports, not enough bandwidth) To set up frequency and volume i used v4l2-ctrl utility. (Package name in Debian is v4l-utils, should be available in Ubuntu.) Something like this: v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --set-ctrl=volume=10,mute=0 --set-freq=95.21 I can run sox in one terminal and i can run v4l2-ctl in another terminal and radio still plays. I can change frequency without stopping radio. Could you please try v4l2-ctl? If it will not work for you it can be problem with drivers, firmware.. > Now i have bought another TV tuner PCI 250 cinergy card which has FM tuner > onboard and uses different driver for the radio.... > Both applications radio and fmtools behave the same with the two different > cards. > > So the question is.... how do i keep radio running while issuing a command > trough fmtools or radio app. > Is there any other app that keeps radio open while receiving control > commands. > > Thanks I believe that feature you describe was called "Mute on exit?" in gnomeradio program. > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Hello Igor, >> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Igor Stamatovski <stamatovski@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > Im trying to use ADS tech instantFM music USB card. >> > >> > dmesg reports this after machine reset (USB stays on machine) >> > >> > [ 6.387624] USB radio driver for Si470x FM Radio Receivers, Version >> > 1.0.10 >> > [ 6.930228] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: DeviceID=0xffff ChipID=0xffff >> > [ 7.172429] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: software version 0, hardware >> > version 7 >> > [ 7.355485] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: This driver is known to work >> > with software version 7, >> > [ 7.532554] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: but the device has software >> > version 0. >> > [ 7.644091] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: If you have some trouble using >> > this driver, >> > [ 7.728735] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: please report to V4L ML at >> > linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > [ 7.840415] usbcore: registered new interface driver radio-si470x >> > [ 8.465398] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio >> > >> > i can note the deviceID and ChipID are not recognised but still some >> > modules load for the card... >> > >> > after reinsert same USB card reports this >> > >> > [ 102.460158] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 4 >> > [ 102.464721] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: si470x_set_report: >> > usb_control_msg returned -19 >> > [ 106.535669] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using >> > dwc_otg >> > [ 106.638514] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=06e1, >> > idProduct=a155 >> > [ 106.638545] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, >> > SerialNumber=0 >> > [ 106.638562] usb 1-1.2: Product: ADS InstantFM Music >> > [ 106.638576] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: ADS TECH >> > [ 106.644537] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: DeviceID=0x1242 ChipID=0x0a0f >> > [ 106.645257] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: software version 0, hardware >> > version 7 >> > [ 106.645288] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: This driver is known to work >> > with software version 7, >> > [ 106.645306] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: but the device has software >> > version 0. >> > [ 106.645321] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: If you have some trouble using >> > this driver, >> > [ 106.645337] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: please report to V4L ML at >> > linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > >> > the radio can scan local radios and create config file with the radio >> > application. >> > using arecord piped to aplay does nothing. >> >> Could you please give more details here? How do you scan local radios >> and create config file? May i miss some information and this driver >> can create config file by itself. >> >> Could you please try other ways to catch sound using >> Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt file ? >> There are also few possible ways described in this file: >> >> [quote] >> Audio Listing >> ============= >> USB Audio is provided by the ALSA snd_usb_audio module. It is recommended >> to >> also select SND_USB_AUDIO, as this is required to get sound from the >> radio. For >> listing you have to redirect the sound, for example using one of the >> following >> commands. Please adjust the audio devices to your needs (/dev/dsp* and >> hw:x,x). >> >> If you just want to test audio (very poor quality): >> cat /dev/dsp1 > /dev/dsp >> >> If you use OSS try: >> sox -2 --endian little -r 96000 -t oss /dev/dsp1 -t oss /dev/dsp >> >> If you use arts try: >> arecord -D hw:1,0 -r96000 -c2 -f S16_LE | artsdsp aplay -B - >> >> If you use mplayer try: >> mplayer -radio adevice=hw=1.0:arate=96000 \ >> -rawaudio rate=96000 \ >> radio://<frequency>/capture >> >> [/quote] >> >> > i wanted to know how do i update software version 0 to software >> > version 7 and try this driver? >> >> I don't know much about such update. May be doc file can be checked >> for this also and i added Tobias (author) in c/c -- Best regards, Klimov Alexey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
