reflector

[Gene Collins]

Hi Igor.  You probably just need to turn your capture volume up and
unmute it.  Your mic volume has to be turned up, and captured also.  You
didn't say which sound card you are using, so I can't be more specific. 
There are lots of folks using Alsa 0.9 with Speak Freely.  The
differences between rc1 and rc2 are bug fixes.  If you don't get rc1 to
work, upgrade to rc2.

While I'm on the subject, you shouldn't have to do anything to Speak
Freely in order to use it.  Just compile it as is, out of the tar ball. 
Don't forget that when you actually connect to a reflecter, you will
need to run two copies of sfspeaker.  The first will use the standard
2074-2076 ports.  The second copy needs the -p4074 option because this
is the port that the reflecter receives and sends on by default.  So if
you were to write a simple script to connect to the speakup reflecter,
it might look something like the one I use:

#!/bin/bash
SPEAKFREE_LWL_TELL=129.100.109.61
SPEAKFREE_ID="Gene Collins:collins at iastate.edu:(515) 294-0015:Ames, Iowa, U.S."
SPEAKFREE_CNAME=gene3.ait.iastate.edu
SPEAKFREE_LWL_HTML=/speakup.html
export SPEAKFREE_LWL_TELL
export SPEAKFREE_ID
export SPEAKFREE_CNAME
./sfspeaker  -p4074 &
./sfspeaker -b -a/home/collins/resp &
stty ixon ixoff
./sfmike 129.100.109.61:4074
stty -ixon -ixoff
killall -9 sfspeaker

If you decide to use this script, don't forget to edit it so it contains
your personal information, email address, domain name, etc.  Have fun!

Gene

>Hi all. I am once again attempting to set up Speak Freely on my Debian
>Woody box using Alsa 0.9.0rc1. I got the mic working properly and the
>levels are set, however, sfmike doesn't seem to be capturing audio from
>the mic input, even though it is set to capture and the level is as high
>is it can go without clipping. However, if I get sfmike to transmit an au
>file across the connection to the sfspeaker host, I can hear it fine.
>Note: the sfspeaker side of the connection is my laptop running Speak
>Freely 7.2. I am trying to set up Speak Freely 7.5 (linux version). I have
>tried other versions such as 7.2, and 7.1 without success in getting
>sfmike to transmit audio from the mic. And in looking through the
>archives, apparently it is possible to use Speak Freely with Alsa. Can
>anyone enlighten me on how to get sfmike to capture mic input? I tried
>various CCFLAGS combinations using -DLINUX_DSP_SMALL_BUFFER,
>-DLINUX_DIN_AUDIO_DEV, -DHALF_DUPLEX, however I never disabled
>-DAUDIOBLOCKING. I might try this next. I have looked at all the various
>manpages, and the various docs available on speakfreely.org and still I
>haven't been able to come up with an answer. Has anyone been able to use
>Speak Freely with alsa-0.9.0rc1? If so, I would be interested in how you
>got it working. I would really like to get on the reflector with my box bc
>I'm sick of relying on the winblows version! Thanks in advance for any
>help on this.
>
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>   If the problem persists, delete winblows and install linux
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