Re: [Tlf-devel] voicekeyer tlf-1.1pre2 and other matters

[Andy Summers]

And again!

I remembered today also that when you arrow left when in the call field 
to edit some part of the call you just typed, the absence of a caret 
marker means you don't know where you are. Again you have to count the 
left arrow strokes to know.

73 Andy, G4KNO.

On 02/11/11 20:30, Andy Summers wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I think your suggestion will work fine. Of course, ideally the code 
> should figure out what sound options are available and pick an 
> appropriate one automatically, but this could also be done in the 
> shell script, I think. Best to get the basics working first though.
>
> I used pre2 in CQWW and so now have some other comments. In the heat 
> of the contest I didn't have time to investigate anything, so these 
> are just things I noticed:
>
> When you tab, spacebar or enter to get into the exchange field you see 
> the caret positioned after the exchange, ready for you to backspace to 
> correct if necessary. Anything you do after that point seems to lose 
> the caret marker. In fact it looks like it's positioned up in the 
> 'worked' window.
>
> If I continue to hit tab when in the exchange field I expect it to 
> cycle between the the call and exchange fields (that's what the manual 
> says), but actually it toggles between the exchange field and the 
> 'worked' window.
>
> The two issues meant I had to escape to back up into the call field, 
> but the number of times depends on whether you've also edited the 
> exchange field. Without the caret marker you don't know which field 
> you're currently in, so you can easily do too many escapes and erase 
> the call entry all together.
>
> I liked the bandmap, but again, if you've moved on to the exchange 
> field ctrl-a doesn't work and you have to back-up. For some reason, at 
> the start of the contest, stations I worked weren't added to the 
> bandmap, but it suddenly started working later on.
>
> Occasionally, the F1 message was actually playing the F6 message. A 
> restart cured it. It sounds like something is stomping on a memory 
> location? I'll keep an eye out in future for other things that are 
> happening.
>
> Can't think of anything else.
>
> 73 Andy, G4KNO.
>
> On 02/11/11 19:43, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> > Am Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:05:56 -0700
> > schrieb Rob Vance<address@hidden>:
> >
> > > 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<address@hidden>
> > > 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<address@hidden>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Rob,
> > > > >
> > > > > Am Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:45:04 -0700
> > > > > schrieb Rob Vance<address@hidden>:
> > > > > > 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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