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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
    Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.

    I am givning up.. new install

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      otto
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      I can’t get any mic to work on my MM, so I am think of doing a new install.
      But I wonder if I can save, my confi.js and the module folder, and swap them after the new install, so I don’t need to do it all over again.
      I have token, Alexa token and so on.
      So that files should’ve making copy’s of before, I wipe the sd card
      And what system should I install to get it right the right start:

      Raspbian Buster with desktop and recommended software
      Or

      Raspbian Buster with desktop
      Or
      Raspbian Buster Lite

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        sdetweil @otto
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        @otto rename the MagicMirror folder to something else.

        Install again, copy stuff from old folder as needed

        Sam

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          smassy
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          Before doing any reinstall check where is your mic with lsusb

          Mine is a webcam so I got the following:
          Bus 001 Device 012: ID 046d:0826 Logitech, Inc. HD Webcam C525

          Then I confirmed it was seeing my mic with arecord -l
          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/config $ arecord -l
          **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
          card 1: C525 [HD Webcam C525], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
          Subdevices: 1/1
          Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

          So my device is plughw:1,0

          Try this to record 3 seconds and play it
          arecord -D plughw:1,0 -d 3 test.wav && aplay test.wav

          If sound is faint you can adjust the ‘gain’ by doing the following

          Open the Audio Device Settings :
          Open the Menu in the top left corner->Preferences -> Audio Device Settings

          I also tried with a 9$ amazon mic but the sound and recording was really crappy.

          Good luck!

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            otto @smassy
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            @smassy the problem is when i go to alsamixe, and F6 and selcet the usb i whnat to use, i get this:

            pi@raspberrypi:~ $ alsamixer
            cannot load mixer controls: Ogiltigt argument

            and if go the settings i selcet the usb, it mutes the sound, cant use my spekars… is so stanges… i have been trying to fix this for over 4week now, and cant find any solution to it,

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              smassy @otto
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              @otto said in I am givning up.. new install:

              cannot load mixer controls: Ogiltigt argument

              Did you tried the command I gave you? Thoses a just to validate that your mic is working, after you can work on alsamixer. The basic command are great tools to make sure stuff is working as you want.

              Maybe a long shot but did you tried the following solution provided here?
              https://askubuntu.com/questions/765396/alsamixer-cannot-open-mixer-invalid-argument

              It seems alsamixer can be tricky to config and some files need to be created manually (sound is muted by default at install).

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