I tried using soundmeter today on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. It's a Debian like distribution and installation worked without any problems by following the normal Debian/Ubuntu installation instructions. The soundmeter functionality I expect seems to work fine. However, it always complains about jack server not running. Specifically, here's an example:
$ soundmeter --collect --seconds 10
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Collecting RMS values...
19 Timeout
Collected result:
min: 18
max: 27
avg: 19
I can make that warning go away if I run jackd with the dummy driver:
terminal1$ jackd -d dummy
jackdmp 1.9.10
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2014 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
terminal2$ soundmeter --collect --seconds 10
Collecting RMS values...
17 Timeout
Collected result:
min: 16
max: 20
avg: 17
I'm filing this issue because I'm not sure what the implications are of running an instance of jackd with the dummy driver. Since it seems like soundmeter doesn't actually need a jack server to function, is it possible to add a fix somewhere in soundmeter itself?
I tried using soundmeter today on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. It's a Debian like distribution and installation worked without any problems by following the normal Debian/Ubuntu installation instructions. The soundmeter functionality I expect seems to work fine. However, it always complains about jack server not running. Specifically, here's an example:
I can make that warning go away if I run jackd with the dummy driver:
I'm filing this issue because I'm not sure what the implications are of running an instance of jackd with the dummy driver. Since it seems like soundmeter doesn't actually need a jack server to function, is it possible to add a fix somewhere in soundmeter itself?