Blinkt with RetroPie/Emulationstation/RetroArch and PivuMeter

[mth75]

Hi, for starters I love the little Blinkt :-).

I’m using Blinkt in my RetroPie/EmulationStation/RetroArch setup running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with Pivumeter.

Blinkt/PivuMeter works in EmulationStation (select clicks) and works with none RetroArch emu’s like ScummVM, Dosbox and the TI99/4a emu.

However, Blinkt/Pivumeter does not work in RetroArch emulators, also the sound doesn’t work in RetroArch emulators. I’m using the default asound.conf.

Errors like attached are thrown. I tried a lot of thing, Alsa configs etc … i’m convinced that the fault is a small one … any help is appreciated!

Regards!

[monglet]

How are you setting up the blinkt, and what code are you using to run it?

[mth75]

I installed PiVumeter all conform the Github instructions.

[monglet]

Have a look through here
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Appendix:_Music_and_sound
and
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RetroArch#Audio_issues_with_ALSA

For ScummVM starting with sudo scummvm - e alsa <game title> might work

Is the sound itself working ok?

[mth75]

The sound only works (as Blinkt) in EmulationStation and none RetroArch emulators (so ScummVM works with sound and Blinkt!)

The sound does not work (as does Blinkt) in RetroArch emulators.

[mth75]

Anything from Pimoroni devs @gadgetoid or @RogueM regarding this problem?

[monglet]

Try pinging @gadgetoid or @RogueM.

It’s not a use case they’ve exampled in the past as the caveat they apply to most products is that they’ll only provide software for stock raspbian.