Hi Stephane,

Many thanks for following up and for the extra information.

I have been able to get the RPi to work with a Rasperian build and BUTT with both a Zoom H5 and F4 with both ethernet and wifi.

I was also able to get an iPad to work with Locuscast with the F4 however not with the H5 as the Lightning port could not deliver enough power even with an Apple UCB adapter, which makes no sense to me, but perhaps I need to look at alternative power sources.

I haven’t yet gone back to try the Streambox.

I will need some instruction on how to load (complile?) the 4.0 build as when I click on the link all I see are characters. Does the .txz file need to be compiled in some way> BTW I am using MacOS

I would like to try out 4.0 though and see if this would work.

At least I can get the RPi to work for Reveil tomorrow with BUTT – but would like to press forward and get the Streambox to work with the RPi.

I am really new to the RPi (just got it this past week) so don’t really know what I’m doing.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Anton

From: Locustream <locustream-bounces@nujus.net> on behalf of stéphane cousot <locusonus@ubaa.net>
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 12:46 PM
To: locustream@locusonus.org <locustream@locusonus.org>
Subject: Re: [locustream mailing list] Streambox with Zoom H5

Hi Anton,

Did you solve this issue ?

If not, the Zoom H5 works fine with the unstable version 4.0, of course as audio interface (tested in stereo mode and bus powered)

http://locusonus.org/streambox/download/streambox-4.0-dev-armv7.txz

I'm not sure this change something for you but all the overlays are disabled (commented) in my /boot/config.txt file.

Only the audio dtparam are enabled 

dtparam=audio=on

dtparam=i2s=on

the RPi will detect the H5 without nothing to do more than adjust settings, save and start streaming.

One point is really required in my case. Because the onboard audio interface is activate, the SOUNDCARD setting must be set to 2 (if you configure the streambox manually).

List audio devices (or captures devices) in the system management panel and you should see the ID use by this sound card.

0 [b1             ]: bcm2835_hdmi - bcm2835 HDMI 1

                      bcm2835 HDMI 1

 1 [Headphones     ]: bcm2835_headpho - bcm2835 Headphones

                      bcm2835 Headphones

2 [H5             ]: USB-Audio - H5

                      ZOOM Corporation H5 at usb-0000:01:00.0-1.1, full speed

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****

card 2: H5 [H5], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Note, as other USB audio devices, the system in the stable image of the streambox (v3.2)  is probably too old to detect the Zoom.

Best,

--
stef

On 30 Apr 2021, at 16:03, Anton Pickard <antonpickard@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for asking.

I have a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to the RPi. The keyboard and mouse are not responsive, on the monitor I see status lines that fill the screen that I don’t understand.

That leads to a thought that I will try. Perhaps having the keyboard and mouse are interfering, so I will try this without having them connected.

Regards,

Anton

From: Locustream <locustream-bounces@nujus.net> on behalf of Michel Jacobs <majacobs@xs4all.nl>
Date: Friday, April 30, 2021 at 2:22 AM
To: locustream@locusonus.org <locustream@locusonus.org>
Subject: Re: [locustream mailing list] Streambox with Zoom H5

So your soundcard is not listed there obviously. Could you attach a monitor to the pi so you can see what is going on? 

the white rider

(Het leuke van ... is weten op reis te zijn

On 30 Apr 2021, at 01:54, Anton Pickard <antonpickard@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks.

In the Streambox admin page in the Audio Configuration setting – I can’t change it – the soundcard down arrow is greyed out

When I select System Management > Audio Devices I get this:

0 [ALSA           ]: bcm2835_alsa - bcm2835 ALSA

                      bcm2835 ALSA

I can reboot and shutdown the RPi from Streambox System Management – so I know that Streambox is talking to the RPi

After reboot if I start the Stream I get the following status message:

AUDIO ENCODER RESTART: WAIT…

The Stream log reads:

* streambox-darkice.service - Locusonus Streambox Live Stream
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/streambox-darkice.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-04-29 23:51:37 UTC; 879ms ago
    Process: 905 ExecStartPre=/home/locusonus/bin/audio.sh --setup (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 915 ExecStart=/home/locusonus/bin/darkice.sh (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
    Process: 916 ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/sleep 7 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 915 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)

The Stream configuration is:

# AUTO-GENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
# BY HAND, YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
 
[general]
duration        = 0
bufferSecs      = 5
reconnect       = yes
realtime        = yes
rtprio          = 3
 
[input]
device          = plughw:1,0
sampleRate      = 48000
bitsPerSample   = 16
channel         = 2
 
[icecast2-0]
bitrateMode     = vbr
quality         = 0.3
format          = vorbis
server          = locus.creacast.com
port            = 9001
password        = locusonus1
mountPoint      = mobile_tinytownship-sandcastle.ogg
name            = tiny - tinytownship-sandcastle
description     = Live audio stream by anton pickard - archlinux armv7l - darkice 1.2.1
url             = http://locus.creacast.com:9001/mobile_tinytownship-sandcastle.ogg
genre           = live audio stream
public          = yes

So I am baffled.

Anton

From: Locustream <locustream-bounces@nujus.net> on behalf of majacobs@xs4all.nl <majacobs@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 5:17 PM
To: locustream@locusonus.org <locustream@locusonus.org>
Cc: locustream@nujus.net <locustream@nujus.net>
Subject: Re: [locustream mailing list] Streambox with Zoom H5

Try changing soundcard configuration to a setting corresponding to output of aplay -l

On 29 Apr 2021 23:07, Anton Pickard <antonpickard@gmail.com> wrote:

HI,

Looking for help with using Streambox with RPi 4 and a Zoom H5 set up as an audio USB interface.

When starting the Stream in Streambox I get the following error message:

AUDIO ENCODER ERROR: CAN'T OPEN AUDIO DEVICE

Rpi Is connected to network via ethernet

Zoom H5 has USB configured for Audio interface

Using a Rasperian OS – the RPi will detect and identify the Zoom H5, the Steambox wont.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Looking to use this roe Reveil this weekend.

Regards,

Anton

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