Hello Rob,

that is great to hear!

A few more details on my setup:
I am using a QCX connected to a very cheap USB soundcard connected to a raspberry pi 3B.
The loopback device is just software created with the following command:
sudo modprobe snd_aloop
The result of this is a virtual device and data is copied from one end (DEV=0) to the other (DEV=1) and also in reverse direction. So I would call this a virtual audio channel but I am not sure if this answered your question.
I am no experienced programmer and found the topic of audio devices under linux very confusing. So I just tinkered around until I got it working finally.
However, one end of this loopback device is the sink for the GNU radio script and the other is the source for wsprdaemon.

I am happy to support by testing something or providing more details.

Best regards,
Martin

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for that welcome report.  In WD 3.0 I will study how to incorporate your fixes.

Rob

Have you executed './wsprdaemon.sh -i' ? 
t will help you find the audio port IDs and set the gain of your ports.

Hello all,

I´ve been trying to run a single band wspr monitor with the audio input feature, but with no success. My present setup consists on a Funcube dongle, playong on the PC´s own soundcard. Since there´s no speakers plugged in, the default input the monitor for dummy audi output, that can be seen both by WSJTX and a QRSS grabbers.

I´m using a modified default config file, with only AUDIO_0 enabled, which suposedly should be listening on localhost:0,0. So far, I havn´t been able to see any spots from this setup. i also tried with my main shack PC, with an external soundcard, with no results as well.
OS is Ubuntu 20.04.

Here´s my current .conf file:

# To enable these options, remove the leading '#' and modify SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID from "AI6VN" to your call sign:
#SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD="proxy"        ### If this variable is defined and not "no", AND SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID is defined, then upload signal levels to the wsprdaemon cloud database
                                   ### SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_MODE="no"    => (Default) Upload spots directly to wsprnet.org
                                   ### SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_MODE="noise" => Upload extended spots and noise data.  Upload spots directly to wsprnet.org
                                   ### SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_MODE="proxy" => In addition to "noise", don't upload to wsprnet.org from this server.  Regenerate and upload spots to wsprnet.org on the wsprdaemon.org server
#SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD="yes"          ### If this variable is defined as "yes" AND SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID is defined, then upload extended spots and noise levels to the logs.wsprdaemon.org database and graphics file server.
#SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID="AI6VN"     ### The name put in upload log records, the the title bar of the graph, and the name used to view spots and noise at that server.
#SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_GRAPHS="yes"   ### If this variable is defined as "yes" AND SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID is defined, then FTP graphs of the last 24 hours to http://wsprdaemon.org/graphs/SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID
#SIGNAL_LEVEL_LOCAL_GRAPHS="yes"    ### If this variable is defined as "yes" AND SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID is defined, then make graphs visible at http://localhost/

##############################################################
### The RECEIVER_LIST() array defines the physical (KIWI_xxx,AUDIO_xxx,SDR_xxx) and logical (MERG...) receive devices available on this server
### Each element of RECEIVER_LIST is a string with 5 space-seperated fields:
###   " ID(no spaces)             IP:PORT or RTL:n    MyCall       MyGrid  KiwPassword    Optional SIGNAL_LEVEL_ADJUSTMENTS
###                                                                                       [[DEFAULT:ADJUST,]BAND_0:ADJUST[,BAND_N:ADJUST_N]...]
###                                                                                       A comma-separated list of BAND:ADJUST pairs
###                                                                                       BAND is one of 2200..10, while ADJUST is in dBs TO BE ADDED to the raw data
###                                                                                       So If you have a +10 dB LNA, ADJUST '-10' will LOWER the reported level so that your reports reflect the level at the input of the LNA
###                                                                                       DEFAULT defaults to zero and is applied to all bands not specified with a BAND:ADJUST

declare RECEIVER_LIST=(
#        "KIWI_0                  10.11.12.100:8073     AI6VN         CM88mc    NULL"
#        "KIWI_1                  10.11.12.101:8073     AI6VN         CM88mc  foobar       DEFAULT:-10,80:-12,30:-8,20:2,15:6"
#        "KIWI_2                  10.11.12.102:8073     AI6VN         CM88mc  foobar"
         "AUDIO_0                     localhost:0,0     CT2IWW        IN51wf  foobar"               ### The id AUDIO_xxx is special and defines a local audio input device as the source of WSPR baseband 1400-1600 Hz signals
#        "AUDIO_1                     localhost:1,0     AI6VN         CM88mc  foobar"  
#        "SDR_0                           RTL-SDR:0     AI6VN         CM88mc  foobar"               ### The id SDR_xxx   is special and defines a local RTL-SDR or other Soapy-suported device
#        "SDR_1                           RTL-SDR:1     AI6VN         CM88mc  foobar"
#        "MERG_0    KIWI_1,KIWI2,AUDIO_1,SDR_1     AI6VN         CM88mc  foobar"
)

### This table defines a schedule of configurations which will be applied by '-j a,all' and thus by the watchdog daemon when it runs '-j a,all' ev ery odd two minutes
### The first field of each entry in the start time for the configuration defined in the following fields
### Start time is in the format HH:MM (e.g 13:15) and by default is in the time zone of the host server unless ',UDT' is appended, e.g '01:30,UDT'
### Following the time are one or more fields of the format 'RECEIVER,BAND'
### If the time of the first entry is not 00:00, then the latest (not necessarily the last) entry will be applied at time 00:00
### So the form of each line is  "START_HH:MM[,UDT]   RECEIVER,BAND... ".  Here are some examples:

declare WSPR_SCHEDULE_simple=(
    "00:00                       AUDIO_0,10 "
)

#declare WSPR_SCHEDULE_merged=(
#    "00:00                       MERG_0,630 MERG_0,160"
#)

#declare WSPR_SCHEDULE_complex=(
#    "sunrise-01:00               KIWI_0,630 KIWI_0,160 KIWI_1,80 KIWI_2,80eu KIWI_2,60 KIWI_2,60eu KIWI_1,40 KIWI_1,30 KIWI_1,20 KIWI_1,17 KIWI_1,15 KIWI_1,12          "
#    "sunrise+01:00                          KIWI_0,160 KIWI_1,80 KIWI_2,80eu KIWI_2,60 KIWI_2,60eu KIWI_1,40 KIWI_1,30 KIWI_1,20 KIWI_1,17 KIWI_1,15 KIWI_1,12 KIWI_1,10"
#    "09:00                       KIWI_0,630 KIWI_0,160 KIWI_1,80 KIWI_2,80eu KIWI_2,60 KIWI_2,60eu KIWI_1,40 KIWI_1,30 KIWI_1,20 KIWI_1,17 KIWI_1,15 KIWI_1,12          "
#    "10:00                                  KIWI_0,160 KIWI_1,80 KIWI_2,80eu KIWI_2,60 KIWI_2,60eu KIWI_1,40 KIWI_1,30 KIWI_1,20 KIWI_1,17 KIWI_1,15 KIWI_1,12 KIWI_1,10"
#    "11:00                                             KIWI_1,80 KIWI_2,80eu KIWI_2,60 KIWI_2,60eu KIWI_1,40 KIWI_1,30 KIWI_1,20 KIWI_1,17 KIWI_1,15 KIWI_1,12 KIWI_1,10"
#    "18:00           KIWI_0,2200 KIWI_0,630 KIWI_0,160 KIWI_1,80 KIWI_2,80eu KIWI_2,60 KIWI_2,60eu KIWI_1,40 KIWI_1,30 KIWI_1,20 KIWI_1,17 KIWI_1,15                    "
#    "sunset-01:00                           KIWI_0,160 KIWI_1,80 KIWI_2,80eu KIWI_2,60 KIWI_2,60eu KIWI_1,40 KIWI_1,30 KIWI_1,20 KIWI_1,17 KIWI_1,15 KIWI_1,12 KIWI_1,10"
#   "sunset+01:00                KIWI_0,630 KIWI_0,160 KIWI_1,80 KIWI_2,80eu KIWI_2,60 KIWI_2,60eu KIWI_1,40 KIWI_1,30 KIWI_1,20 KIWI_1,17 KIWI_1,15 KIWI_1,12 KIWI_1,10"
#)

### This array WSPR_SCHEDULE defines the running configuration.  Here we make the simple configuration defined above the active one:
declare WSPR_SCHEDULE=( "${WSPR_SCHEDULE_simple[@]}" )

Any thoughts?

thanks

Paulo, CT2IWW