Play Sound from USB Microphone

Dashboard
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Hello,

Can anybody tell me if it's possible to play the sound received from a USB microphone attached to a Raspberry PI and play it through the Dashboard UI? I have tried several microphone and play sound node combinations, where .wav files are recorded and replayed but no sound has been received?

Thanks in advance

Glenn

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Is it the recording or replaying that is not working?

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Hi Colin,

All seems to be working, but the bit I'm confused about is how to deliver the sound through to Dashboard. I have put a template on to try and deliver to my intended endpoint group.

Thanks

Glenn

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Are you connecting to NR using a browser on the Pi or on another machine?
What node are you using to play the audio?
What version of NR?
What version of Node.js?
What browser?

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The dashboard has an audio out node.... why not feed the wav (as a buffer) to that.

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NR connecting as a browser (chrome) from phone
Play_Audio_File
NR Version/node.js 8.11.4

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Thanks for coming back to me,

which node is this please?
The wav file buffer node I have has no output node

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In the nodes panel scroll down to the Dashboard nodes and there you should see Audio Out.

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Is that node more for text to speech?

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Either, as it says in the info panel.

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Thanks Colin,

Still no joy though. Nodes are as above. I am a little confused as to how the usb port for the microphone is assigned as the first node doesn't seem to require this information and I am getting no sound out when I go from my phone to the assigned group.

Glenn

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You indicated previously that you were getting the wav file ok.

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If not then which node are you using for the microphone (node-red-contrib-something)?

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Hi Colin,

node-red-contrib-micropi

I used their example flow and on the "micropi" node, if I browse to the http://localhost:1880/getAudio url it will immediately download a wav file which I have played on my windows pc using VLC. So I assume the deom.wav file is working ok. However, I want it to buffer the sound through the dashboard ui.

Hope that makes sense.

Glenn

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If it's already giving you a wav file in a buffer then feeding it direct to the audio out node should work

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Hi dceejay,

I don't recognise your middle node.

Are you able to export the clipboard and tell me the node please?

Glen

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Thats just a file in node (from Node-RED v 0.19) to read a test wav file I had on my pc - set to output contents as a single buffer. You may not need it if you are already getting a wav buffer direct from the mic

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Ok, looks different on your node red version. Set up as stated and I get no sound what-so-ever. I've tried the absolute path - home/pi/audio/demo.wav and audio/demo.wav to no avail. I've looked at the demo.wav file and it hasn't been updated for sometime.

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path must start with / to be absolute so /home/pi/audio/demo.wav etc

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sorry, that is how I have it.

Still confused by how the node picks up which USB the microphone is attached to?