I2S ADC Headaches

zazu z

@luz, @UFD guys, you are awesome. I wasted about week to get it work and you told me an answer withing few hours. I can confirm working i2s virtual card. I still can't get sound from mic, but this is hardware problem as I understand.

UFD

@zazu-z , Its only because I've spend the last 6 months trying to figure it out. I've also found value in the forum and therefore Im always happy to give back.
The solution is not perfect and I am actually experiencing alsa overrun issues when recording. In my books it's still a challenge that needs a fully understood solution.

steeley

@UFD
What are you recording onto? bigger also buffer or making the process run as a higher priority can help.

I tried your build as I have also spent ages trying to get i2s audio out
and it does work well with my 1502 board( own design) - thanks.

I never got any official reply on whether i2s audio I/o would be part if the 'factory' builds... There is project in the docs that says i2s audio is included and shows
a setup , but its out of date and doesn't work.

I'm looking at manufacturing a combined pcm1502a + pcm186x board
and currently considering the omega2+ as the host processor.

steeley

@Denis-Mikhalsky

For playback into a pcm1502a board the wiring here will work:
https://onion.io/2bt-omega-i2s-audio/
You can ignore the setup stuff, just use UFDs build and it works.

sergiosmail

@luz said in I2S ADC Headaches:

max98357A

Hi @luz I was trying to make max98357A work and have find your post and patches but it doens't work, please let me now your thoughts about the process I've followed..

Basically I've downloaded a clean onion distro and download 210-omega2-sound-max98357a.diff. After configure onion-minimal-build.sh I've apply your patch. "make" works but alsa shows now audio cards.

I'm afraid that I've to insert max98357A module after board boots.. but not sure. It would be nice to know your opinion.

luz

@sergiosmail do you get anything when doing the following?

root@pixelboard:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [AudioI2S       ]: Audio-I2S - Audio-I2S
                      Audio-I2S

If not, please check that you have enabled the kernel package sound-mt7620 in menuconfig.

The 210-omega2-sound-max98357a.diff patch makes sure that the snd_soc_max98357a module should get automatically loaded at startup. You can check in /etc/modules.d:

root@pixelboard:~# ls -la /etc/modules.d/*sound*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           126 Jan 30  2019 /etc/modules.d/30-sound-core
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            13 Jan 30  2019 /etc/modules.d/55-sound-soc-core
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            72 Jan 30  2019 /etc/modules.d/90-sound-mt7620

root@pixelboard:~# cat /etc/modules.d/90-sound-mt7620
snd-soc-wm8960
snd-soc-max98357a
snd-soc-ralink-i2s
snd-soc-simple-card

Finally, before you can play sounds:

root@pixelboard:~# alsactl init
Found hardware: "Audio-I2S" "" "" "" ""
Hardware is initialized using a generic method

From here on aplay and other sound tools should work

aplay /path/to/sound.wav

If you want more control, such as a mixer with two separate volumes for background music and game sounds, look at pixelboard's asound.conf

Also, playing mod files is fun (need very littel disk space, lots of tunes can be found online), possible with the hxcmodplayer package

sergiosmail

@luz I've repeat all the mentioned steps and it works now... I can't belive

My fault was that I wasn't applying 210-omega2-sound-max98357a.diff correctly. The patch fails for 0.3.2 b238, and I wasn't applying it correctly (doing changes manually)

I've tested using mpg123 mp3 player and aplay commands. Works fine.

Also thank you for the tip about mixer and hxcmodplayer

Modest Polykarpovich

I tried to connects I2S sound card CJMCU-4344 (alternate PCM5102), based on Cirrus Logic CS4344. I cant understand: all I2S modules are already loaded, why I have no any soundcard device?

These are my sound modules that is loaded:

root@Omega-D913:~# lsmod | grep snd_
regmap_i2c              2298  1 snd_soc_wm8960
snd                    41582 12 snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_soc_wm8960,snd_soc_core,snd_compress,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
snd_compress           10436  0
snd_hwdep               4286  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_mixer_oss          12729  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                61710  6 snd_usb_audio,snd_soc_ralink_i2s,snd_soc_wm8960,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm_dmaengine,snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm_dmaengine       2971  1 snd_soc_core
snd_pcm_oss            36177  0
snd_rawmidi            16298  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device          2191  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_soc_core          114758  4 snd_soc_simple_card,snd_soc_simple_card_utils,snd_soc_ralink_i2s,snd_soc_wm8960
snd_soc_ralink_i2s      7088  0
snd_soc_simple_card     4304  0
snd_soc_simple_card_utils    5095  1 snd_soc_simple_card
snd_soc_wm8960         24224  0
snd_timer              15806  1 snd_pcm
snd_usb_audio         121378  0
snd_usbmidi_lib        16883  1 snd_usb_audio
usbcore               137059 29 option,uvcvideo,usb_wwan,snd_usb_audio,pl2303,ftdi_sio,cp210x,ch341,usbserial,usblp,usbhid,ums_usbat,ums_sddr55,ums_sddr09,ums_karma,ums_jumpshot,ums_isd200,ums_freecom,ums_datafab,ums_cypress,ums_alauda,snd_usbmidi_lib,cdc_acm,btusb,usb_storage,ohci_platform,ohci_hcd,ehci_platform,ehci_hcd

And we can see no any card installed!

root@Omega-D913:~# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:272: no soundcards found...

root@Omega-D913:~# alsactl init
alsactl: init:1757: No soundcards found...

root@Omega-D913:~# aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

root@Omega-D913:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---

Onion OS: 0.3.2 b233, kernel version 4.14.81

Modest Polykarpovich

The kernel objects in the Linux OS' are very capricious thing and one of the biggest problem. So... kernel object will work only in the same kernel version and build number, well I want to say these are likely static feature than dynamical as it give us.

We (users) can't append sound driver or TFT-display (frame buffer driver and his friends), PCI Express->SATA controller, etc.!

To append your own kernel object you have to build you own firmware - it's not convenient. Second way - build kernel objects on the omega (direct compilation), but it needs special tools, like linux-headers-*, that's out of repositories too.

Let's type code in Python! ((

calonso

Hi,

I have configured the I2S as it is shown in this topic and the I2S Output work perfectly.
Now, I'm testing the I2S Input and I've found some problems.

I'm trying a loopback between I2S_DOUT and I2S_DIN to test the I2S input.
When I try to use the arecord command there is an error:

arecord: main:828: audio open error: No such file or directory

Could you indicate how did you test the I2S input?

Thank you

PD: here are the output of the arecord -l and arecord -L:

root@OpenWrt:/# arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: AudioI2S [Audio-I2S], device 1: ralink-i2s-dir-hifi dir-hifi-1 [ralink-i2s-dir-hifi dir-hifi-1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
root@OpenWrt:/# arecord -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)