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Wolfson audio card + Jasper ?

fvan

Hi,

 

has anyone been able to get Jasper (Jasper | Control everything with your voice ) to work with the Wolfson audio card ?

 

I tried getting it to work with two different approaches and ended up with the same result (which is something good I suppose).

  • Took the Wolfson image and manually installed Jasper software
  • Took the Jasper image and manually installed Wolfson drivers/kernel

 

Jasper is working via the command line, but when trying to use voice control, I get some (Alsa related?) errors.

 

Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Configure( stream, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, &inputLatency, &outputLatency, &hostBufferSizeMode )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2762
Expression 'r' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2013
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_FinishConfigure( &self->capture, hwParamsCapture, inParams, self->primeBuffers, realSr, inputLatency )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2650

 

Full log attached.

 

Thanks!

Frederick

Attachments:
jasper_log.txt.zip
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  • 0 in reply to malakai

    Hi Todd,

    Getting Jasper to play requires that you can play a wav file using aplay with no arguments. Once that works, you want to remove the aplay hardware references(-D hw:x,x) in /boot/boot.py and /client/mic.py

     

    Try this file:

    aplay /home/pi/jasper/static/audio/jasper.wav

     

    My standard speakers work in the line out (green plug) and from the headphone out (black). Jasper works great with the onboard digital mics.

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  • 0 in reply to willondubs

    Thank you I think I am getting closer here's the error without the edits

     

     

    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ aplay /home/pi/jasper/static/audio/jasper.wav

    ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1658:(snd1_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf) Unknown field the

    aplay: main:682: audio open error: Invalid argument

     

     

    OK it plays if I sudo

     

    aplay /home/pi/jasper/static/audio/jasper.wav 

     

    Is that typical?

  • 0 in reply to malakai

    Thank you all.

     

    It's a hack but I just added sudo aplay to mic.py and boot.py image all is well in my world now.

  • 0 in reply to malakai

    Jasper starts up, asks how he can be of service and such, but when I try to give it a command, nothing happens image

     

    Edit: ok, I get the beep beep when I say Jasper, and it replies image (had to increase input volume for DMIC)

    But my english must be so bad that it never answers correctly when I ask the time ...

  • 0 in reply to fvan

    Ok, it just seems to have difficulties understanding me, but it works.

     

    If I repeat nice and slowly, it seems to work! Thanks everyone!

  • 0 in reply to fvan

    Frederick

     

    What did you do to get the Jasper + Wolfson working after you encountered all the error messages? I am encountering similar messages as to what you did, but am not having any luck resolving them. I'm getting the following:

     

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.front

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround40

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround41

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround50

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround51

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround71

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline

    ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline

    ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

     

     

    ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

     

     

    ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream

    ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:551:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) The dsnoop plugin supports only capture stream

    ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream

     

     

     

     

    Drew

  • 0 in reply to malakai

    For context to my previous post, I followed the RoadTestReview Todd put together. Todd, if you have any thoughts here they'd be appreciated as well.

  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    Hi Drew,

     

    have you gone through all the feedback from Todd and Will in this thread ?
    One of the last things I fixed was this: http://www.element14.com/community/message/118485/l/re-re-wolfson-audio-card-jasper#118485

     

    Frederick

  • 0 in reply to fvan

    I've been over this post many times, and many others image. I did install libasound2-plugins. The other thing I'm realizing is that when I play the jasper.wav sound using aplay I get the 'Playing WAVE '.../jasper.wav' : Signed 16 bit...' message, but it never terminates and I don't hear anything. I have to ctrl-c to get it to stop.