Hijack v444 is now available.

This version boosts the gain control of the cs4231a chip to max, for use when sampling Radio/Aux inputs to compute the front-panel graphical visual displays. There is no effect on visuals from the mpeg player engine, as that path does not use the cs4231a for sampling.

I have found that the v3alpha series has severely muted the visuals for Radio/Aux, so this does a little bit towards making them work again. Even with the gain at max, it's still a bit lower than I'd like, though.

There is now a new Hijack parameter for config.ini, known as visuals_gain, which can be assigned any value from 0 through 31. A value of 0 means use the player's default setting of 8 (same behaviour as prior to Hijack v444,), and values from 1..15 are straight 1.5dB gain increments. Values from 16 through 31 add a +20dB boost to the lower 1..15 values. The default is a gain of 31 (15 + 20dB boost).

Also new, the /proc/empeg_cs4231 file now shows the two most recent 16-bit samples, so you can how adjusting the gain works out. This is also to aid me in implementing record from FM some day. I may begin that by simply streaming the samples out over TCP or UDP to my 24/7 network server, and let that machine actually save the recordings.

Cheers

Hm.... Do you have any plans to add something to /proc (or perhaps just an ioctl) to retrieve the currently-tuned radio frequency? If so, that'd be about all I'm missing to implement something to do this.

Cool, that's all I need. I'm already reading the savearea for something else, but didn't know the tuner freq. was in there (thought it was stored on the tuner module itself or something.)

Hi Mark,

I had V443 and V444 installed on my device and found out, that when I switch between sources (tuner, AUX, player) and go back to player as a source, I can't choose any new playlists...The player hangs forever (sandglass)...If I go back to V442, then I can switch to every source and come back to player and can choose a different playlist...

Don't know, if this have todo with the digital board form Stu...

There was an other funny thing today...Car battery was draining to zero with V443... I am not sure, if the player was not switching off and I din't used my car for a while.

bye

I just tried this a few times, and it worked for me -- didn't get stuck on the hourglass.

But one attempt did actually fail to play new music until I rebooted the player.

Such is life with closed source apps.. never really know what's wrong or how to fix it.

Cheers

lets say "works as designed"

Thanks

Why not just map both of them to "Pause" ?

But to answer your question about switching to Aux, The button name is "Auxiliary" in Hijack, and to switch back to the player use "Player".

-ml

OK. I did the maping to "Pause" of both.

In player-mode it works perfect but in tuner-mode
it shows the telephone, it shows speaker-symbol
but does nothing. You have to push the pause-button
twice. First switches the speaker-symbol away und the
second hit on the pause-button switches it back on and
also cuts the music off, which already should have been done by the mute.

Any Ideas ?

Regards

Christian