Winblows "problems"

[Rick, W7IMM]

Howdy all,

I have been using my very old HP Core i3 laptop (2008 vintage & and came with Win7 and I  upgraded to Win10) with FreeDV almost from inception!

(I've also got FreeDV to work with a 2015 MAC Book Pro running Monterey and my home made (AMD 6-Core) desktop running OpenSuSE Linux too)

For the most part  the old HP Core i3 laptop "works" , although a tad slow and getting slower every time an update is pushed.   (and I have to sit through multiple reboots) 

I also have used it for TurboTax for the same amount of time and since MicroShaft is going to literally KILL Win 10 which will also KILL the ability to use TurboTax,

(this year,  Intuit TurboTax also removed MAC Monterey compatibility)

So I MUST and did to "upgrade" to a new computer.

The new one is very a current,  ACER NV15 Core i7 laptop (32gb ram and 500gb M.2 drive)  that came with Win11 Home that I will move my Win10 Pro license to from the "old" HP.

After sitting through the multiple updates and reboots for more than an hour on the "new" computer,   I finally got the thing where I could start installing my favorite software to include TurboTax and FreeDV.

I think I have a tiny bit of experience using FreeDV and Windows in general and I used most of the default settings.

I started the computer today (and after sitting through another round of updates and reboots)....I installed FreeDV and of course, the sound-audio system (for speaker output) simply disappeared.

It's gone.  Gates must not think I need it anymore!

"System > Sound > Volume mixer "

"Output device ...... No output devices found"

Intel, NVIDIA and Realtek devices are listed in device manager though.

Sorry for the long rant above!!!

It of course does find the USB Audio codec devices.

So long story short:  What setting in FreeDV makes a Winblows 11  POS lose the audio devices for speaker output?......Or, what switch did I flip to make this happen?

[Dayne Aldridge]

I assume you are describing what you don't see in the list when you open freeDV tools, receive tab, output from computer to speaker/headphones.  I have a new ACER 3 15 with similar stuff as you.  I see in the list one for the laptop speaker Speakers(Realtek(R)Audio).  While this works the level of the audio is very low.  I turn on bluetooth and link to my HiFi amp that lets me control the volume and it works fantastic.  Maybe you can use bluetooth as a work around.  Hope to find you on the air soon.

Dayne K8CHY

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[Jose Donnari]

You have to set the Realteck speaker as default and the USB device you are using for reception or the virtual cable as default communications, depending on what you use, but that's the problem, no, the speaker is not set as default.

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[Rick, W7IMM]

Ok,

Well, somehow the Realtek audio output was disabled. (I didn't disable it but it was disabled)   So, I re-enabled it and got the speaker output back (systems sounds, Youtube audio etc.)

But I still cannot get audio from the radio to the software.  I know this because I should be able to select "Analog" while FreeDV is running and get receive audio from the computer speakers.  In Digital mode, the waterfall is "falling" but there's clearly no audio signal there.

I know the digital encoded audio is going the other way because it's transmitting normally.  

Just no receive audio making it to the software.  SO I guess I'm halfway there!

[Mooneer Salem]

Maybe check the app specific volume settings? You may have to go into the old Control Panel (not "Settings") to set this, though.

-Mooneer K6AQ

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[Rick, W7IMM]

Hi Mooneer,

Thanks for the info!

It's been pretty frustrating considering it worked so well on the MAC Book Pro and Win10.

There's a LOT of different audio settings on WIN11 that I have no experience with!

[Jose Donnari]

Hi Ric, if it doesn't recognize your internal audio card, what you can do is install an external USB audio card and with that I think you can solve the problem of not having a microphone.

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[Mel Whitten]

Yes,  something like this one I’ve used for many years from Win 7 to 11.  Available from Amazon (USB Sound Card Stereo 3.5mm Audio Adapter)

 

Mel, K0PFX

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