Microphones not working through Alsa (dummy device?)

Help and Troubleshooting
#1

Hello.

After getting the matrix-creator software installed, I can not properly access the microphones. Alsa (arecord -l) only lists "Dummy [Dummy] and 8 Dummy PCM decives.

The asoundrc (as seen here: https://gist.github.com/hpsaturn/0605defc0249e7e2ae424b899e02f1d1#file-asoundrc ) seems correct.

Can you tell me what needs to be changed?

Thanks in advance!

#2

Can you confirm if you already have MALOS services install and running?

try:
top | grep malos

Let me know the result.

Yoel

#3

Thanks for your reply! The result is the following line:
557 root 20 0 763616 8928 7256 S 5,3 0,9 0:00.63 malos

#4

Hi @SEckert,

Have you tried record with arecord software?
ex:
arecord --device=mic_channel1 -r 16000 -c 1 -f S16_LE test.wav

#5

You can also try to record using example in HAL repository. You can follow this guide:

https://matrix-io.github.io/matrix-documentation/matrix-hal/components/microphone/

Here we explain how to clone, build, run and also convert the audio files to wav format.

#6

Thanks for your help. I tried arecord, but the result is not only very low in volume, but noisy and distorted.
So, something happens, but maybe there is some other problem.

#7

Can you try to run the ./micarray_recorder demo following this guide ?
https://matrix-io.github.io/matrix-documentation/matrix-hal/components/microphone/

This recording demo records all mics at the same time and converts them to wav audio. This I could see if something is wrong with the mics.

IMPORTANT: before running the example please stop the MALOS service using:
sudo pkill malos
after this malos should not appear listed in the processes . To check the active processes use top.

Let me know if you need any help. :slight_smile: