USB headset, USB sound card, USB microphone compatibility

roxette

Hi Igor & everyone.
If you had success making voice calls via Whatsapp, Viber, Skype, ICQ ... using any of the above hardware in title then post here.
Thanks.

roxette

Good news :smile:
Whatsapp voice messages works however voice calls is disconnected immediately after being initialized :neutral:

IKS

Hi roxette, I'm still out of office until the end of the month. I'll take a look as soon as back. Thanks for keeping us up to date!

roxette

Hi Igor,
I think you don't have to bother yourself as i see that nobody is interested in that issue.
Otherwise you should see replies like:

Well, i installed Skype or Viber and i was able to make a voice calls but the mic isn't working!
Thank you.

dendiee

well i do care about the usb mic compatibility. Did u find a way to solve this already?

Timlmorganza

I care as well to see if Microphone can be enabled through usb sound card and or add on board module using gpio pins. thank you

DJon

Hello is there any update for voice calls? is it compatible to use USB Microphone with Raspberry Pi?

DJon

if there is update for microphone please give me the url link.

IKS

We have started looking into it today. It seems that there are no audio input drivers included, so the recording cannot be initialized. We'll see if we can reuse any of the existing drivers from other devices as a fast fix.

IKS

The first step is finished - the system knows there might be input devices (so recording applications don't crash). But it isn't yet clear how Android handles USB microphones...

sq9gin

USB sound card - microphone - work 🙂

IKS

@sq9gin, does it? :confused:
could you please describe which version of emteria.OS and what USB card you are using and how do you test (which recording application). Because it doesn't really work in our setup 🙂

sq9gin

0.5.4
https://photos.app.goo.gl/iWZ1jaucLsdaChxu2

sq9gin

application Zello

IKS

Thanks, do you reboot the device before or after connecting this USB card? Or does it work immediately?

sq9gin

The USB card is connected before the system starts up.

roxette

Hi, as i wrote earlier USB microphone works for whatsapp voice messaging using any Emteria distro, i think it used to work on RTAndroid as well.
The problem occurs during voice calls, each application got a different behaviour.
For ex., Whatsapp voice calls is disconnected immediately after it's initialized.
On Viber you can make a voice call however you will be able to hear the other person but he won't hear you.
Icq doesn't work at all whether it's a voice message or call.

IKS

We are currently re-implementing the audio HAL to integrate the audio in the standard Android way. Applications are not crashing anymore when they try to open the default microphone, so I hope we are on the right track.

roxette

@IKS said:
We are currently re-implementing the audio HAL to integrate the audio in the standard Android way. Applications are not crashing anymore when they try to open the default microphone, so I hope we are on the right track.

Are you able to record Icq voice message? if yes then you are on the right track 🙂

IKS

So I did some tests with our internal version (will be released soon) and an USB headset:

All recording apps are working normally (tested 3 different ones)
ICQ is probably the slowest application I've ever seen. Voice messages are working, but the application stucks from time to time and messages get corrupted.
Skype calls are working, but it seems nobody can here me. I didn't find a way to record a voice message.
I don't have WhatsApp or Viber accounts to test.

Please feel free to test it further and let me know how it works on your devices. We will keep an eye on this topic.