ArduVoice-9x Voice Module with Arduino for the 9x Radio

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Re: ArduVoice-9x Voice Module with Arduino for the 9x Radio

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hi joao,
i have not got a different card at moment my super duper samsung evo wont let me format it,im getting confused with the voice files not sure if its heather or sharon that i loaded,
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Please double check the connections between the card reader and the voice module are correct, including the power. where did you connect the power to the card?
Are you using an arduino nano or a pro mini? I could never make it work with a nano..

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Re: ArduVoice-9x Voice Module with Arduino for the 9x Radio

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hi joao.
im using the pro mini.
i dont have any connections from amp board to sd card, i have arduino board powered from ampboard sharing the vcc and ground with the sd card,same as your diagrams in your first thread
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Same test as before please, see what is on the terminal output.

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dont know why but it wont let me upload pics ok mike the new code is
03 heart 09 4 blanks 11 < 0 0 C
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managed it
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That indicates the SD card is being initialised OK, so it is responding, and also the FAT file system is recognised. But it is then still failing to open the file, very odd.
I'll see what I can come up with tomorrow. For the moment, all I can suggest is you delete all the files from the SD card, then just put 0040.WAV on there.

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cheers mike,
really sorry for using all your time like this,
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Another for you to try! I need to keep adding debug info to narrow down what is failing. It is something odd since the firmware is known to work.

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it works really well for me.. and i built a couple (3 to be more precise) of these boards. One is installed in my er9x radio with m2561, and working.. I have built every single example I have posted.. the double board one, the single board one, and I also made a PCB for another one.. This one is in my radio.. But all work..

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as requested,
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That indicates all is working up to finding the file, but it is not opening it. I'll come back with another test version tomorrow, I was busy actually flying today!

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cheers mike hope you had a good day,
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Try this one please, same method.
I'm needing to put this debug into the FAT file system code, which I did not write, so it is taking a bit of time to locate where I need the debug.

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next one mike,
i was wondering if the arduino board is ok maybe the amp board isnt so i desoldered everything and checked with a multimeter everything as it should be,
i didnt know how to check audio chip so i built a simple audio circuit on a breadboard and it worked fine chip and speaker so something else eliminated,
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Something that was OK in an earlier test is now not working. You had one situation where 5 minutes later you had a different output.
The firmware is looking to check the SD is "mounted", so is present and has a FAT file system. This test shows that is failing, the 03(heart) is "Not Ready". After the 03(heart) you have 00 00 83. Because 00 is a power up value, I added setting the top bit (80) to see if it is being set. Since the first 2 values show as 00, they were never set, so the check for "mounted" is failing.

This may be a timing problem with the SD card at power up.
Please try two things:
1. Wait a few minutes to see if the 00 00 after the "heart" changes.
2. Press the reset button on the Arduino as this will restart the firmware but with everything already powered.

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ok mike,
i flashed it back to the version before this one to see if anything has changed and the second pic is that,i then flashed it to the next version and thats pic 1
i reset the arduino as you can see in the process,
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mike ive just been having a playabout with the sd card module and the new arduino,when i setup the sketch for the sdcard info i had to change the chip select to no 10, dont know if this has any bearing on your code,
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Yet another test for you to try please.

The chip select for the SD card does look to be on port B bit 2, which corresponds to D10 on the Arduino.

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next one mike,
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The SD card is not initialising, but it did in an earlier set of tests!
So this version tries to pin down why it is not initialising.

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and the next one,
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Sorry, got the debug a bit wrong, it didn't tell me enough so here is another one to try.

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next one mike,
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Going down even deeper into the code, try this one please.
I am getting information from this debug!

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and he next one,
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The SD card is not responding to the "select" operation. I can only suggest checking the connections from the Arduino, via the level converter to the SD card.
The Arduino connection "10" is the CS signal, 11 is MOSI, 12 is MISO and 13 is SCK.

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cheers mike i will check everything and try a different card,
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hi mike im just about ready to bin this,
ive put in google how to check connections for sd card from arduino via level convertor and what ive read i dont really understand,
my understanding is that a serial convertor changes the voltage either up or down,
i have a level convertor and i assume im supposed to connect this to the pins 10 11 12 13,to drop voltage to 3.3v,
so what i have done is connected the sd card reader to the other arduino that i have flashed with sd card info and when i read the card (succesfully) i took readings from the pins and its working with 5v,
have i got this right,
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Can you actually load some sketch to make it play a file?
It seems you are only getting the card info but not using the data in it. And that might not be working..
Do you have another card Reader you can try?

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