Hi,

I use a Pi 3 with jessie.
My Monitor doesn´t have HDMI thats why I use the audio jack of the Pi to play sound to the monitor speakers.
Additionaly I use a usb mic.
This setting works fine, but the audio out is very silent. Thats why I want to add a usb soundcard (just for audio out).

And here my problem starts. The Pi always plays sound over the audio jack. No matter what.

I already spended hours searching the internet and trying different thinks.
Here are some outputs:

lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0d8c:013c C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM108 Audio Controller
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0d8c:0014 C-Media Electronics, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

It is Device 5.

aplay -l:

**** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) ****
Karte 0: Device_1 [USB Audio Device], Gerät 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 2: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], Gerät 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
  Sub-Geräte: 8/8
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
  Sub-Gerät #1: subdevice #1
  Sub-Gerät #2: subdevice #2
  Sub-Gerät #3: subdevice #3
  Sub-Gerät #4: subdevice #4
  Sub-Gerät #5: subdevice #5
  Sub-Gerät #6: subdevice #6
  Sub-Gerät #7: subdevice #7
Karte 2: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], Gerät 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0

arecord -l:

**** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (CAPTURE) ****
Karte 0: Device_1 [USB Audio Device], Gerät 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 1: Device [USB PnP Sound Device], Gerät 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Sub-Geräte: 0/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0

So, card 0 aka Device_1 is my usb soundcard and card 1 aka Device is my microphone.

cat /proc/asound/modules:

0 snd_usb_audio
1 snd_usb_audio
2 snd_bcm2835

I didn´t touch the configuration but both usb´s are starting before the internal soundcard.

I tried different /etc/asound.conf, for expample:

#defaults.ctl.card 0
#defaults.pcm.card 0
pcm.!default {
    type asym
    playback.pcm "plughw:Device_1"
    capture.pcm  "plughw:Device"
}

or

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

I even edited the default devices in the /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.
No luck at all.

I am thankful for every help.

I tried it again and found my mistake.

The default zoomLevel is 4.5.
I testet small adjustment steps and then jumped to 0.
However 0 is not zero zoom. I am not sure what it is.
But it seems like I skipped the 1 which is no zoom.

With zoomLevel 1 it was easy to adjust the zoomLongitude and zoomLatitude.

@ninjabreadman
Thanks for the help.
I tried it again and found my mistake.

Like you said, the default is 4.5.
I testet small adjustment steps and then jumped to 0.
However 0 is not zero zoom. I am not sure what it is.
But it seems like I skipped the 1 which is no zoom.

With zoomLevel 1 it was easy to adjust the zoomLongitude and zoomLatitude.

Thank you!

@fox
Did you get it running?
I tinkered a little workaround because my MMM-podcast in combination with MMM-Button sometimes failed.
The workaround was easier for me than solving the problem.

I am definitly not good in coding. But however it works;-)

Hey fox,

although your post was made a year ago … did you get it running?
I want to see the whole world too and don´t get it.

Thx

A new version was published.
Now it works again.

Solved.

Hi,

the default setting of the module does only show europe and a little more.
Well, we traveled from Cuba to Bali and need to see the whole world.
I tried different zoom level, but I don´t get it.

Does anyone know how to set these settings to see the world in total?

zoomLevel:
zoomLongitude:
zoomLatitude:

Thanks a lot.

@cruunnerr

So after a couple of days I gave it a new try.
You were close to the solution. I did not install the dependencies right.

For all with the same issue, you have to read the instructions better than I did:

1. Navigate into your MagicMirror’s modules folder and execute git clone https://github.com/ptrbld/MMM-Podcast.git. A new folder will appear navigate into it. --> which means navigate into MMM-Podcast.
2. Execute npm install to install the node dependencies. --> in the folder MMM-Podcast, install the omx-manager and omxdirector (see dependencies).
   3. Install omxplayer. --> However, I already had the newest version installed.

Now it works fine. And it is pretty awesome.

Thanks for helping me.

Mr.Coffee

Hi,

I would like to see the description of the news in the newsfeed all the time.
So, like mentioned in the options, I changed the “showDescription = false” in the newsfeed.js to “true”.
It works fine. I can see the description of every article without doing anything, even when the articles update.

The problem is when I use the command “ARTICLE_MORE_DETAILS” to open the full article. It works like a charm, but when I close the full article I use the command “ARTICLE_LESS_DETAILS”. It goes back to the newsfeed but unfortunately without showing the descriptions anymore. I only see the headlines (like “showDescription = false” although “true” is still set of course).

If I use the command “ARTICLE_MORE_DETAILS” again, the description opens, but the article is freezed - like coded.

Do you have any idea, how I can leave the full article going back to the “show-description-version”?
Or instead, how can I remove the freeze?

Thanks a lot.
Greetings

Mr.Coffee

I reinstalled the MMM-pages modul with no results. Still the same problem.

I even restartet to fill the mirror config.js, only using the default modules. Still the same problem.

Does nobody have an idea?