“The unit works, but the recording volume is very low. Even at max input setting, it's hard to hear what's being said. I don't know if I got a faulty unit or not, but it's pretty much useless for my use case. Planned use was a noise sensor for home automation. There is also no light when it detects sound, like the product page claims (which is no big deal..)”
“So I bought this use on my rasp pi 3 with google assistant set up and it is just so darn cute. Its tiny and it just works. Plug it into a pi and forget its there. It was a breeze to set up and oh yeah its ВЈ5!! So you get the tiniest cutest little mic for ВЈ5 and it just works. As a side note the packaging that come from Pimoroni is just awesome. It feel like it is personalized all company's should make customers feel special and these guys excel at it.”
“Well, spent hours trying to set this up, first on jessie lite and then on jessie with pulseaudio.
If you are going to have a separate usb mic, then you probably want a different device for sound out. I removed pure audio in the end (apt-get autoremove pulseaudio) and used this /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type asym
playback.pcm {
type plug
slave.pcm "hw:1,0" # speaker is device 0 on card 1
}
capture.pcm {
type plug
slave {
pcm "hw:2,0" # this mic is card 2 when I run arecord -l
rate 44100
}
}
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
slave.pcm "hw:1,0" # volume on the speaker I think
}
The recording is full of crackling and no idea how to fix it with no useful Alsa documentation. Interestingly arecord -f cd ... makes it work fine, (44100 S32_LE 2 channels) but setting that up in asound.conf just fails. I am assuming the hardware is not registering itself with jessie...”