ULTRA++, Mic-In dead && Onboard-Mic deactivated but recording

Surfable · August 23, 2021, 11:19pm

Hey Guys.

First of all thanks for providing such nice HAT.
Im currently working my setup but there is some stuff driving me nuts making no sense to me at all.

My goal is to config the ULTRA++ as a Mic-In && Headphone-Out only device.
Onboard-Mic and -Speakers must not work.

When i load preset_external_jack_microphone_input2 no ffplay or any other functionality seems to work (very strange)
When i load preset_onboard_Speakers_and_headphone_jack_output instead playback works just fine from both expected outputs (pluged headphones && onboard speakers)
So I put down the onboard speakers manually by alsamixer and stored it as my custom preset
To enable the desired mic/recording feature I first compared the broken preset_external_jack_microphone_input2 vs preset_onboard_Speakers_and_headphone_jack_output by faders at alsamixer and finally managed to set up some kind of recording by adjusting my custom preset with working output to also have the desired input.
But: It seems like its only recording from Input1 (onboard) even if Input2 (mic-in) is the only source been tuned up in alsamixer. I tried several alternatives to isolate the problem but could not to manage to get any recording from the mic-in.

Please help me out. Thats alot for reviewing my current custom preset:
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Surfable · September 2, 2021, 11:46am

Hey Guys. I really struggling and have no clue how to proceed. is there any body who can help me? Thanks alot!

sbar · September 24, 2021, 3:44pm

Hi Surfable

I looked at your microphones problems and wrote new profiles which seem to fix them.
I put then on github.com/RASPIAUDIO
(“external_microphone_only”, “onboard_microphones_only” and “external_and_onboard_microphones”).
Could you try them and tell me what you think about ?

See you soon…