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ALSA error

See original GitHub issue

When looking at my logs with pm2 logs MagicMirror I can see lot of this kind of errors: 0|MagicMir | ALSA lib pcm.c:8389:(snd_pcm_set_params) Channels count (1) not available for PLAYBACK: Invalid argument

I am using usb sound card (Blackstorm Spectrum 5.1) on my raspberry pi and it is working fine. Alexa can hear me and I can hear her. But that log is pretty alarming 🤔

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Created 6 years ago
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henrikracommented, Mar 16, 2018

Wow did not notice that this is still open. I fixed this long time ago 😄 Thanks for the help

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E3V3Acommented, Mar 16, 2018

@henrikra What is the output of these?

cat /proc/asound/modules
cat /proc/asound/cards
amixer

I think the problem is that THAT config still doesn’t set the device plug default correctly.

Try this:

pcm.!default {
  type asym
   playback.pcm {
     type plug
     slave.pcm "hw:1,0"
   }
   capture.pcm {
     type plug
     slave.pcm "hw:1,0"
   }
}

ctl.!default {
        type hw
        card 1
}

and restart alsa server with: sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart.

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