Sounds great to me.  As always, I really appreciate what you are doing for
us.  Thank you very much.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Beierlein <t...@forth-ev.de> wrote:

> Am Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:05:56 -0700
> schrieb Rob Vance <n6rob....@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > No apology required.  Yes, the short answer is that the sound card has
> > several microphone inputs but the names are different.  I'm not at the
> > machine now but I recall there are "front mic"& "rear mic" of various
> > types, but none are called just plain "mic".
> >
> > I should have reported back to Thomas:  Yes, commenting out the lines
> > solved the problem and the keyer worked as expected without any
> > complaints from amixer (in my code it was lines 1234 and 1236). It
> > was a very satisfactory work-around as I don't use other mic inputs
> > during contesting.
>
> Hi Andy and  Rob,
>
> nice to hear that my suggestion worked.
>
> I will change the code in the next days to call one external shell
> script for playback and provide an example. That shell script has to be
> adapted by the user and can
>
> - mute / unmute the mic,
> - set the gain,
> - play the file,
> - set / drop any external/internal signal it needs to work with your
>  hardware and
> - do anything else you have to do.....
>
> So the flexibility is in your hands without playing with the code.
> What do you think?
>
> Just to find some time for it ... (I hope at the weekend).
>
> 73, de Tom DL1JBE.
>
> > Alternatively I suppose I could have just renamed
> > the entries in lines 1234/1236 to match my sound card and thus had
> > the benefit of suppressing other sounds (mic inputs) during the voice
> > keyer operation; but I have not tried this.
> >
> > Thank you so much for the updates to the scoring and bandmap; I am
> > still playing around with it, but I like it so far.
> >
> > I have another question about the operation of the program, but I
> > will post that separately as it is quite different from this topic.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > N6ROB
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Andy Summers <g4kno.m...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Sorry about that, it was my fault. I just sent my hacks, to get it
> > > to do what I wanted it to do, over to Rein and they appeared in the
> > > code. I'm not confident enough to add in a config option for using
> > > the soundcard mic, so hopefully you might do that Tom? I presume
> > > that's what's needed?
> > >
> > > Can you really get soundcards without a mic input? Or is it just
> > > called something slightly different on that soundcard?
> > >
> > > 73 Andy, G4KNO.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Thomas Beierlein <t...@forth-ev.de>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Rob,
> > >>
> > >> Am Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:45:04 -0700
> > >> schrieb Rob Vance <n6rob....@gmail.com>:
> > >> > I am using tlf on 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).  It's working fine
> > >> > except I am having a problem with the voice keyer.  When using
> > >> > either the auto-keyer or an F-key to send an audio track, I get
> > >> > this string on the screen.
> > >> >
> > >> > amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Mic',0
> > >>
> > >> TLF tries to mute the microfone input on your soundcard.
> > >>
> > >> The problem lies in the hardcoded assumption that there is such an
> > >> input device on your soundcard.
> > >>
> > >> > I asked amixer to
> > >> > give me a list of devices and discovered that there is none
> > >> > called 'Mic' at all. So apparently tlf is calling a device
> > >> > called 'Mic' and amixer is telling it there is no such device
> > >> > (?).
> > >>
> > >> Exactly.
> > >>
> > >> > If so, can someone
> > >> > advise on a method to change this parameter?
> > >> >
> > >> As a quick fix I would suggest to comment out lines 1236 and 1238
> > >> in src/callinput.c and recompile. That will drop the amixer
> > >> invocation. Keep an eye to the possibility to catch additional
> > >> microfon input signals during sending of one of the F-key audio
> > >> tracks.
> > >>
> > >> 73, de Tom DL1JBE
> > >>
> > >> > Hope everyone is enjoying CQ WW.
> > >> >
> > >> > 73,
> > >> >
> > >> > Rob, N6ROB
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> "Do what is needful!"
> > >> Ursula LeGuin: Earthsea
> > >> --
> > >>
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