Boot Sound

[fredfs]

I am trying to have a boot sound on my pi robot.
So when the power in on, something comes out from speakers connected to the analog audio output.
So far I have all these lines on the very first rc boot script (rcS)
/usr/bin/omxplayer -o local /home/bootsound.wav
and
/usr/bin/aplay /home/bootsound.wav
and also
/opt/vc/src/pi/hello_audio/hello_audio.bin.
But no audio.
If I try then at rc.local, it works, but then that is too late. It is a monitor-less robot project, we need some boot sound.
WHat am I missing? Maybe I should force the load of the sound module at the very first stage? But I am clueless how to do it.
Any help is very welcome.

[Malman35]

Hmm I have thought about trying to do something like this but i don' know how either. Sorry.

[piglet]

I'm in the same boat - except that I want to ensure that there is no sound output until the boot is done and I am ready to output the sounds I want to hear.

What I see is that while the pi is booting static/buzzing audio is generated both to the audio jack and on the USB sound card. I'd like it to be silent as it boots. I have sound amplified to speakers and it's not great that you get noise as you boot.

Any help to prevent this (or to play a sound of "silence") would be appreciated.

[fredfs]

Maybe your only help would be using a DAC, like Hifyberry, that does not suffer electric interference?

[piglet]

That wouldn't help as those things grab a shedload of GPIOs which I want to use for other things

[r3d4]

So when the power in on, something comes out from speakers connected to the analog audio output.

What kind of speakers ?

+"Analog audio problems? post comments here!" : viewtopic.php?f=28&t=95612

[fredfs]

Desktop speakers...

Does it really matter?

[tvjon]

When testing some setups, I use a similar idea, although often a video (no sound) but audio works fine too.

Using omxplayer is a good idea, as it doesn't depend on the state of alsa. Alsa often goes into sulk mode on me & I get the silent treatment.

So, in a terminal window, type:

crontab -e

Scroll past all the comment lines that pop up in the terminal edit window, & make a new line thus:


@reboot cd /home/pi/music && /usr/bin/omxplayer -o local Clannad.mp3

Hopefully obvious, change the paths to your file.

Now save the file, & exit back to the terminal prompt.

To ensure that you really did type in that line, type:

crontab -l

& hopefully you'll see what you just entered, & can check you've put in the right path for your sound file, along with omxplayer's path.


Let us know if that is good enough for what you need.

[fredfs]

Thats is too late, I was looking for something as soon as the initial boot stage. Maybe using hello_audio code?

When testing some setups, I use a similar idea, although often a video (no sound) but audio works fine too.

Using omxplayer is a good idea, as it doesn't depend on the state of alsa. Alsa often goes into sulk mode on me & I get the silent treatment.

So, in a terminal window, type:

crontab -e

Scroll past all the comment lines that pop up in the terminal edit window, & make a new line thus:


@reboot cd /home/pi/music && /usr/bin/omxplayer -o local Clannad.mp3

Hopefully obvious, change the paths to your file.

Now save the file, & exit back to the terminal prompt.

To ensure that you really did type in that line, type:

crontab -l

& hopefully you'll see what you just entered, & can check you've put in the right path for your sound file, along with omxplayer's path.


Let us know if that is good enough for what you need.