How to enable/use microphone on orange pi lite?

[Zammy]

Hi,

 

I tried to use default audio device, audiocodec hw:0,0 with arecord to record some sounds from mic. The file contains some noise. Any ideas how to activate mic?

[Ford Prefect]

Hi

Try this:

root@orangepipc:~# alsamixer
root@orangepipc:~# arecord -i -f S16 -r 22050 /media/test.wav
Recording WAVE '/media/test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono
^CAborted by signal Interrupt...

I just tested it on an SSH console in WXP and the /media directory is shared by samba to test the result.

HTH

[Paul Adams]

not sure if you figured it out over the years but one thing that you need to do is run alsamixer, hit F4 then on mic 1 press space to enable it. took me a while also. this was for the orangepi prime and then you can record with arecord