Re: [motufw-devel] experience with ffado driver

[Jonathan W. <jw...@ph...>]

Hi guys

Francois wrote:
>
> I changed the ports creation order in libffado/src/motu/motu_avdevice.cpp so
> that the Main-out is the first out used by the auto-connect feature of
> clients. This is very useful if you want listening mp3 or radio easily.

That's an interesting point.  The reason it's where it is in the main FFADO
codebase is because the position used for "main out" on the MkII is used
by AES/EBU on the Traveler (my interface) and having the defacto default 
channel being AES/EBU is a bit of a pain in the field.

Having said that, I could look into moving things around a bit in the light
of this issue to make things easier for MkII owners.  However, this might
not occur over the next few weeks because I'm doing audio for a theatre show
and therefore don't expect to have too much free time over that time.

> The analog out 1 led should be ON, because a 1kHz test tone is send to it
> by FFADO. If it's blinking, the sink is probably loosed.

True.  If it's blinking it means the test tone output is intermittant. 
Since a continuous tone is generated the blinking does indicate that
something is amiss.  Having said that, a loss of sync often causes the LEDs
of other channels to flash intermittantly as data ends up going to the
wrong channels.

Regards
  jonathan