PyRadmon install and set up on Raspberry Pi (Wheezy Raspbian)
9 years 2 months ago #1387
by jnissen
Replied by jnissen on topic PyRadmon install and set up on Raspberry Pi (Wheezy Raspbian)
Looks like we have a winner! So far nearly a week of solid reporting! Way to go.
The only change I had to make for the BeagleBone Black was to change the default timeout for the serial port from the 1 second to 4 seconds. I also added a 0.1s delay after the CPM request is sent to the unit. I think those are mainly due to the interaction with the GMC Geiger Counter I have and the Beagle Bone. The GMC is terrible about having a variable response time once it gets the CPM command. The GMC firmware is not something that can be fixed - I asked many moons ago. Anyway bottom line is I am very happy with the performance of late.
The only change I had to make for the BeagleBone Black was to change the default timeout for the serial port from the 1 second to 4 seconds. I also added a 0.1s delay after the CPM request is sent to the unit. I think those are mainly due to the interaction with the GMC Geiger Counter I have and the Beagle Bone. The GMC is terrible about having a variable response time once it gets the CPM command. The GMC firmware is not something that can be fixed - I asked many moons ago. Anyway bottom line is I am very happy with the performance of late.
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9 years 2 months ago #1388
by ThibmoRozier
Replied by ThibmoRozier on topic PyRadmon install and set up on Raspberry Pi (Wheezy Raspbian)
Amazing to hear that. 
GMC firmware can surely be fixed if the programmers just open their eyes and look at the reviews that their customers give them about their products.
Or if they give their firmware to others (me or Dan or anyone else knowing how to program in C and how to compile using GCC).
But that's just something I won't see happening any time soon.
I will see what I can do on PyRadmon's side.
Thanks again for testing, it's awesome that you are willing to do so
GMC firmware can surely be fixed if the programmers just open their eyes and look at the reviews that their customers give them about their products.
Or if they give their firmware to others (me or Dan or anyone else knowing how to program in C and how to compile using GCC).
But that's just something I won't see happening any time soon.
I will see what I can do on PyRadmon's side.
Thanks again for testing, it's awesome that you are willing to do so
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9 years 2 months ago - 8 years 11 months ago #1393
by jnissen
Replied by jnissen on topic PyRadmon install and set up on Raspberry Pi (Wheezy Raspbian)
Yes now over a week and it would have died at least one or more times by now. I think you nailed it. Fantastic support!
Update - Now over two weeks straight and I have done nothing to it. Running rock solid! Very good fix.
Update 2 - This ran for three months solid without touching it!
Update - Now over two weeks straight and I have done nothing to it. Running rock solid! Very good fix.
Update 2 - This ran for three months solid without touching it!
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8 years 10 months ago #1732
by matthieu
Replied by matthieu on topic PyRadmon install and set up on Raspberry Pi (Wheezy Raspbian)
Hi,
I can't seem to get this to work with my radbox-20. The only difference is that I am running Jessie for obious reasons (Wheezy is going to LTE-maintenance in February, I would like to start with Jessie right away to avoid the update later on).
Here are the exact steps I took:
- burned a fresh raspbian jessie lite (dated 2015-11-21) to the sd card
- booted the raspberry pi 1st gen, connected via SSH
- sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
- sudo apt-get install python python-dev python-serial
- sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio
- Get pyradmon, run it to generate config
- run alsamixer to make sure the external card shows up
- run pyradmon again. Here is the output:
By the way: I had to convert the pyradmon using dos2unix because weirdly all files were Windows-ended.
Best Regards,
Matthieu
I can't seem to get this to work with my radbox-20. The only difference is that I am running Jessie for obious reasons (Wheezy is going to LTE-maintenance in February, I would like to start with Jessie right away to avoid the update later on).
Here are the exact steps I took:
- burned a fresh raspbian jessie lite (dated 2015-11-21) to the sd card
- booted the raspberry pi 1st gen, connected via SSH
- sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
- sudo apt-get install python python-dev python-serial
- sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio
- Get pyradmon, run it to generate config
- run alsamixer to make sure the external card shows up
- run pyradmon again. Here is the output:
Warning: Spoiler!
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ./PyRadmon.py
Reading configuration:
User name configured
Password configured
Serial port name configured
Serial port speed configured
Protocol configured
Device number configured
Protocol configured
Using audio protocol for 1 => geiger 1
Initializing audio communication => geiger 1
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.front.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM front
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.surround51.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround21
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.surround51.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround21
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.surround40.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround40
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.surround51.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround41
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.surround51.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround50
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.surround51.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround51
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.surround71.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.iec958.0:CARD=0,AES0=4,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM iec958
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.iec958.0:CARD=0,AES0=4,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM spdif
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.bcm2835.pcm.iec958.0:CARD=0,AES0=4,AES1=130,AES2=0,AES3=2'
ALSA lib conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM spdif
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
No samples in queue, waiting 5 seconds => geiger 1
Gathering data started => geiger 1
Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1514
Expression 'ValidateParameters( inputParameters, hostApi, StreamDirection_In )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2818
Problem with audio port => geiger 1:
[Errno Invalid number of channels] -9998
Exiting
Exception in thread audioCommunication:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "./PyRadmon.py", line 503, in run
self.stop()# Set EOL for log
File "./PyRadmon.py", line 562, in stop
if self.stream:
AttributeError: 'audioCommunication' object has no attribute 'stream'
No samples in queue, waiting 5 seconds => geiger 1
No samples in queue, waiting 5 seconds => geiger 1
^C
CTRL+C pressed, exiting program
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./PyRadmon.py", line 800, in <module>
main()
File "./PyRadmon.py", line 780, in main
geigerCommunication.stop()
File "./PyRadmon.py", line 562, in stop
if self.stream:
AttributeError: 'audioCommunication' object has no attribute 'stream'By the way: I had to convert the pyradmon using dos2unix because weirdly all files were Windows-ended.
Best Regards,
Matthieu
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8 years 10 months ago #1733
by matthieu
Replied by matthieu on topic PyRadmon install and set up on Raspberry Pi (Wheezy Raspbian)
alsamixer output:
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Warning: Spoiler!
Card: USB Device 0xccd:0x77 F1: Help x
x Chip: USB Mixer F2: System information x
x View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card x
x Item: Speaker [dB gain: -20.13, -20.13] Esc: Exit x
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x < Speaker > Mic Auto Gain Control x(Hope the ascii-art is readable after posting it
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8 years 10 months ago #1734
by ThibmoRozier
Replied by ThibmoRozier on topic PyRadmon install and set up on Raspberry Pi (Wheezy Raspbian)
That's weird because my RPi runs it without an issue.
I have a few questions now:
1> If you look at the config file it will tell you all available devices and how to configure them.
2> Does the compiled version work? PyRadmon.pyc
About the error:
It seems that PyAudio lib has some issues surpressing enummeration attempt errors.
This is a PyAudio issue that's rather well known.
What I will surely do now:
1> Update a few things in the source to try and get a better enummeration of devices.
2> Update port opening to new standards.
I have a few questions now:
1> If you look at the config file it will tell you all available devices and how to configure them.
2> Does the compiled version work? PyRadmon.pyc
About the error:
It seems that PyAudio lib has some issues surpressing enummeration attempt errors.
This is a PyAudio issue that's rather well known.
What I will surely do now:
1> Update a few things in the source to try and get a better enummeration of devices.
2> Update port opening to new standards.
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