TwoToneDetect New TwoToneDetect in the works - Python based

[kc8oye]

Bug Report... maybe?

I am running windows XP Pro, SP3

I have two sound cards. My on-board SigmaTel Audio, and my add on PCI Soundblaster Audigy

regardless of which soundcard, or even the sound mapper, input I select, the program can not hear and audio from either card.

When I change my 'default record device' in my control panel to the audigy (it was on the sigmatel) the program could hear audio by soundmapper or Audigy, or the sigmatel

It appears regardless of what input I tell it to use, it will use only the default recording device...

 

[aaknitt]

I am running windows XP Pro, SP3

I have two sound cards. My on-board SigmaTel Audio, and my add on PCI Soundblaster Audigy

regardless of which soundcard, or even the sound mapper, input I select, the program can not hear and audio from either card.

When I change my 'default record device' in my control panel to the audigy (it was on the sigmatel) the program could hear audio by soundmapper or Audigy, or the sigmatel

It appears regardless of what input I tell it to use, it will use only the default recording device...

Are you restarting the program each time you select a different audio source? If not, give that a try and see if it helps.

Andy

 

[kc8oye]

Every time I restart it, it defaults to the Microsoft Sound Mapper, regardless of which source I had selected.

Are you restarting the program each time you select a different audio source? If not, give that a try and see if it helps.

Andy

 

[aaknitt]

Every time I restart it, it defaults to the Microsoft Sound Mapper, regardless of which source I had selected.

Do you have admin or write access to the folder that TTD is in? It sounds like changes to the config.cfg file aren't being saved.

Andy

 

[KLH]

kc8oye, I have ALWAYS had the same problem as you. I just set the default sound card in the control panel and forget about it since the program is running on a semi dedicated computer.

 

[kc8oye]

Yes, I am admin on this machine.

I wish I could just do this and forget about it. but I have two sound cards in this computer with good reason, I can't afford to dedicate either one to any one project.

kc8oye, I have ALWAYS had the same problem as you. I just set the default sound card in the control panel and forget about it since the program is running on a semi dedicated computer.

 

[aaknitt]

Yes, I am admin on this machine.

I wish I could just do this and forget about it. but I have two sound cards in this computer with good reason, I can't afford to dedicate either one to any one project.

Even if you're admin, Windows 7 doesn't allow write access to some directories (like program files) without taking special action. Have you tried putting the TTD folder on the desktop and running from there? That's usually a safe bet.

Andy

 

[jhsands]

Even if you're admin, Windows 7 doesn't allow write access to some directories (like program files) without taking special action. Have you tried putting the TTD folder on the desktop and running from there? That's usually a safe bet.

Andy

kc8oye

I think it's safe to disable UAC. Ive run windows 6.x + for years and found the only thing it stops is legitimate programs (java update scheduler anyone?). All the computers I work on that get viruses have UAC on.

obviously, that's just my opinion and you do so at your own risk.

 

[kc2kvy]

I tried searching the thread & came up blank so I'll ask (please point me to a reply if it was already mentioned)....

Any hopes of getting something like this for us Mac users? I'd LOVE to be able to use this on the computer since I already have it running my scanner feed and not need to hook a scanner up to my Windows laptop and keep that running 24/7. I could also run a Windows clone but I've done it on previous computers and don't want to add it on this one so that's out....

I've had some success running TTD on a mac using Wine. Check that out.

 

[davidVT]

I would suggest using a $35 raspberry PI rather than your mac. These are starting to go into production environments/usage with TTDpi for some folks!

 

[aaknitt]

Tutorial Videos

Hi everyone,

Over the last couple of weeks I've been getting an increasing number of emails from people brand new to TTD who are struggling to get it up and running. I'd really like to make some detailed step-by-step tutorial videos to help these people out, but I just don't have the time to sit down and do it right now. It will probably be a couple months before I do (fire department building project underway right now). If anyone has the time and would like to tackle this, it would help a lot of people out. VE3NSV made a video some time ago but the program has changed quite a bit since that video was made so it's kind of dated. Here are some videos I think would be helpful:

1) Step by step setup video. This would start from downloading the program, go through unzipping it, downloading and unzipping ffmpeg, selecting the sound card, attaching the scanner, setting the levels, editing config and tone info.
2) Finding unknown tones video. Using audacity or some other method
3) Testing TTD video. Using an andoid or iphone app or another computer as the audio source.

If you make a video let me know and I'll link to it on the program page.

Thanks,

Andy

 

[smyers119]

Rasberrypi Error message once a wekk

I get this error about once a week on my rasberry pi running 60a.
"
Expression 'framesAvail' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3563
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_GetAvailableFrames( &self->capture, &captureFrames, xrunOccurred )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3642
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_GetAvailableFrames( self, self->capture.pcm != NULL, self->playback.pcm != NULL, framesAvail, &xrun )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3702
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_WaitForFrames( stream, &framesAvail, &xrun )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4338
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "TwoToneDetect60aPi.py", line 707, in <module>
File "TwoToneDetect60aPi.py", line 696, in record
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyaudio.py", line 605, in read
return pa.read_stream(self._stream, num_frames)
IOError: [Errno Unanticipated host error] -9999
"

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[aaknitt]

I get this error about once a week on my rasberry pi running 60a.
"
Expression 'framesAvail' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3563
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_GetAvailableFrames( &self->capture, &captureFrames, xrunOccurred )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3642
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_GetAvailableFrames( self, self->capture.pcm != NULL, self->playback.pcm != NULL, framesAvail, &xrun )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3702
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_WaitForFrames( stream, &framesAvail, &xrun )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4338
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "TwoToneDetect60aPi.py", line 707, in <module>
File "TwoToneDetect60aPi.py", line 696, in record
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyaudio.py", line 605, in read
return pa.read_stream(self._stream, num_frames)
IOError: [Errno Unanticipated host error] -9999
"

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve,

I haven't seen that error before. Looks like it's having trouble with teh audio input for some reason. Are you rebooting the Pi nightly or just letting it run? I do a nightly reboot and haven't had any issues.

Andy

 

[smyers119]

Andy, I do not do nightly reboots but that probably would solve the problem...do you have a start-up script for automatically starting TwoTone again? if not it's no problem...I will figure it out.


Thanks,

Steve

Steve,

I haven't seen that error before. Looks like it's having trouble with teh audio input for some reason. Are you rebooting the Pi nightly or just letting it run? I do a nightly reboot and haven't had any issues.

Andy

 

[aaknitt]

Andy, I do not do nightly reboots but that probably would solve the problem...do you have a start-up script for automatically starting TwoTone again? if not it's no problem...I will figure it out.

This is the script (startTTD.sh) that I use to start TTD:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pi/TTD/Pi/
python TwoToneDetect63Pi.py

That script gets called from this crontab entry ( crontab -e )

@reboot screen -dmS ttd-screen /home/pi/TTD/Pi/startTTD.sh

I have also have another crontab entry to start darkice for audio streaming:

@reboot /bin/sleep 120 ; screen -dmS darkice-screen darkice

 

[DC31]

Steve,

I haven't seen that error before. Looks like it's having trouble with teh audio input for some reason. Are you rebooting the Pi nightly or just letting it run? I do a nightly reboot and haven't had any issues.

Andy

My pi's have run for weeks on end with no reboot, and i have never seen this error message.

Steve, is there any chance that you are running a wireless adapter to your ethernet? I ran a Model A pi that way for a while and experienced periodic crashes.

Jim

 

[aaknitt]

I get this error about once a week on my rasberry pi running 60a.
"
Expression 'framesAvail' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3563
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_GetAvailableFrames( &self->capture, &captureFrames, xrunOccurred )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3642
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_GetAvailableFrames( self, self->capture.pcm != NULL, self->playback.pcm != NULL, framesAvail, &xrun )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3702
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_WaitForFrames( stream, &framesAvail, &xrun )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4338
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "TwoToneDetect60aPi.py", line 707, in <module>
File "TwoToneDetect60aPi.py", line 696, in record
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyaudio.py", line 605, in read
return pa.read_stream(self._stream, num_frames)
IOError: [Errno Unanticipated host error] -9999
"

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Steve

Also, what kind of USB sound card are you using? I did have a more expensive SoundBlaster device that the Pi didn't seem to like very well. The super cheap eBay ones seem to work well though.

Andy

 

[ffryan76]

I have a idea for the remote editor and the program editor. Can you add a option to send notification text to the listed email/text incase you need to notify everyone the TTD program may be down ?

 

[brian79z]

Trying to upgrade from TTD56 to TTD63. Same computer is the goal.
Programmed in tones for TTD63 on another computer, then transferred folder to the main computer.

On both computers, when I try to open TTD63, nothing happens. On the debug, the DOS screen pops up, then disappears. I happened to get a screen grab before it went the last time.

It looks like it is sticking on the LOG file?

 

[aaknitt]

Trying to upgrade from TTD56 to TTD63. Same computer is the goal.
Programmed in tones for TTD63 on another computer, then transferred folder to the main computer.

On both computers, when I try to open TTD63, nothing happens. On the debug, the DOS screen pops up, then disappears. I happened to get a screen grab before it went the last time.

It looks like it is sticking on the LOG file?

It looks like it can't find a sound card to use. If you're copying over the config.cfg file from a different computer that might cause some issues. You might want to manually set the input and output devices to 0 by editing config.cfg with a text editor. Also if it's a newer computer you may need to have a cord plugged into the audio input in order for it to recognize the sound card. Finally, you can always check the log.txt file for errors even if you're not using the debug version.

Andy