GPIO rotary volume

[dh04000]

Would this be doable and useful for recalbox? Would be great for my arcade machine to have a master volume move to control the software audio levels.

github link

[Substring]

No GPIO is analog, so it would require a ADC for which we should determine the number of bits. But there might exist something that already does it. Do you use only the hdmi audio ?

[dh04000]

@subs Hey Subs,

I use the headphone jack audio only. Did you look at the github link? The author had this to say about how it worked, "since the GPIO pins are just for arbitrary signals, you need a script on the Pi that knows what to do with them, The builtin GPIO library for the Pi will do nicely for this.

You'll see the script below, but here's how it works: it listens on the specified pins, and when the knob is turned one way or another, it uses the states of the A and B pins to figure out whether the knob was turned to the left or to the right. That way it knows whether to increase or decrease the system volume in response, which it does with the command-line program amixer."

He had it work on retropie.

Is this generic enough to work in recalbox? Would anyone else be interested in this being default in recalbox as a way to control audio in arcade box situtions? Kinda like how a shutdown button was added as an alternative to gui shutdowns.

[Substring]

you're right, i didn't check the link. So i have an answer for you

/me summons @supernature2k

Dude, i know you can change alsa volume with a tick on a pin, add it to your ¨Über gpio ultimate script ?

[dh04000]

@subs said in GPIO rotary volume:

you're right, i didn't check the link. So i have an answer for you

/me summons @supernature2k

Dude, i know you can change alsa volume with a tick on a pin, add it to your ¨Über gpio ultimate script ?

So are you saying that my suggestion this might be included in recalbox? If so, YAY! I contributed to something! Woot. Also, it would really complete my arcade cabinet. Some day, I'll post pictures here to show you what the devs of Recalbox have allowed me to do.

[lackyluuk]

@subs Controlling the ALSA controls is explained i the HiFiBerry wiki article that I wrote some time ago, if you speak about this?

[Substring]

@lackyluuk @dh04000 the idea is to have a gpio read Volume+ or Volume- ticks. So yes, the Hifiberry configuration part is almost exactly what will be done. May also need to check with recalbox internal audio volume, if it needs to be saved or not ...

[lackyluuk]

@subs okay cool. Yes, this could be a useful improvement. Because I cannot use the internal audio seekbar from ES with my script

[Nachtgarm]

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[dh04000]

@subs

I am going to buy that rotary encoder found in the github link. When it arrives, would you mind helping me integrate this into my Recalbox 4.0 build? I'm going to upgrade to 4.1 due to fba rom set version changes. Thank you.

[Substring]

4.1 is not publicly available. But either me either @supernature2k can help you to make it run meanwhile. Still, i didn't check how the button works, so wait a little before buying it

[dh04000]

@subs said in GPIO rotary volume:

4.1 is not publicly available. But either me either @supernature2k can help you to make it run meanwhile. Still, i didn't check how the button works, so wait a little before buying it

Alright, I'll hold off on the order. Thank you for assistance subs and supernature2k!

[Substring]

@dh04000 several things as looked a little more in depth ... So :

• looks like it's a little more complicated than expected to port it
• it's python3, and we run python 2.7, so the script must be backported to python 2.7. Can't tell how much work it represents, i don't know enough python
• i think it's too much work for @supernature2k

[dh04000]

@subs said in GPIO rotary volume:

@dh04000 several things as looked a little more in depth ... So :

• looks like it's a little more complicated than expected to port it
• it's python3, and we run python 2.7, so the script must be backported to python 2.7. Can't tell how much work it represents, i don't know enough python
• i think it's too much work for @supernature2k

That's a shame

Would this program help? https://wiki.python.org/moin/3to2 https://wiki.python.org/moin/3to2 It converts python 3 code to python 2 code. Maybe it'll work without modification? Crossing my fingers.

[dh04000]

Here's another way to do a rotary encoder. No idea if python 3 or 2. https://volumio.org/forum/gpio-pins-control-volume-t2219.html

Looks even simpler. But, that button to play music lines would need to be cut out.

[Substring]

@dh04000 indeed, much easier. Can't say if it's python 3 or not, but it looks rather easy to setup

[dh04000]

Is there any hope of a gpio volume by button or rotary encoder in the future, or should I start working on a new plan for my arcade box? Do you know if usb volume controllers work on recalbox?

[Substring]

It's hard to tell. We just lack devices to test. Almost everything in recalbox is ready to handle it, except the gpio handling

[dh04000]

@subs said in GPIO rotary volume:

It's hard to tell. We just lack devices to test. Almost everything in recalbox is ready to handle it, except the gpio handling

Lacking devices to test, does that mean that you lack a rotary encoder to test? How much to the recalbox paypal would solve that? There's an issue withe the gpio handling? I thought recalbox could read gpio events already?

[Substring]

@dh04000 we don't have any rotary button such as yours we do handle gpio, hopefully lol