osmc pygame not using audio jack

[ibshar]

Hi,

I am facing a little issue while playing Audio with Pygame in my Python program.

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 2 Mod B
OS: OSMC

I need the audio to be played from the Audio/Headphone jack. In order to that in OSMC I have made a shell script that does changes the standard audio output from HDMI to Audio jack:

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sudo systemctl stop mediacenter
sed -i 's#<audiodevice default="true">PI:HDMI</audiodevice>#<audiodevice>PI:Analogue</audiodevice>#g' /home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml
sudo systemctl start mediacentero

And it works fine because after this if I play anything in OSMC the audio comes from Audio Jack. But when I play anything form Python using Pygame, the sound still comes from HDMI and not audio Jack..

Can someone please help me identify the issue and fix it.

[elParaguayo]

As far as I know, pygame doesn't let you set the output device so you'll need to do this outside of your python script. The OSMC settings that you change will have no impact on python.

Have a look at this page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... -config.md

[ibshar]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't work for osmc. The amixer command line thing works on Raspbian, but not on OSMC. I just need a similar solution for OSMC.

[DirkS]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't work for osmc. The amixer command line thing works on Raspbian, but not on OSMC. I just need a similar solution for OSMC.

I would suggest you ask this question on the OSMC forum: https://discourse.osmc.tv/

[elParaguayo]

It's probably worth asking this on the OSMC forum.

When you it doesn't work, what do you mean? Is there an error message, or just no change in the audio output?

One post on the osmc forum suggests a slightly different command to the one on the rapsberry pi page: https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/command-lin ... mm/2032/32

[ibshar]

It's probably worth asking this on the OSMC forum.

When you it doesn't work, what do you mean? Is there an error message, or just no change in the audio output?

One post on the osmc forum suggests a slightly different command to the one on the rapsberry pi page: https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/command-lin ... mm/2032/32

I have also posted this question in OSMC forum, but haven't got a solution yet so checking here as well.
As to what happens when i run the amixer command, it says command not found:

-bash: amixer: command not found

[elParaguayo]

See this thread: https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/alsa-on-osmc/11496

[ibshar]

Thanks, that helped. I found the solution.... It was pretty simple, as that thread mentioned that ALSA modules are included in the kernel, just the util was not installed. So I just installed teh Also Utils and now I can use the amixer to set the audio out just as in Raspbian.