Problems Building VoiceCard Driver On Raspberry PI Zero 2W

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#1

Hello, I am trying to build the driver as explained here - GitHub - HinTak/seeed-voicecard: This is an enhancement fork with the explicit aim of supporting current shipping Raspbian/Ubuntu kernels without requiring downgrading. Please donate at https://hintak.github.io/ if it works for you. Use vX.Y branch for kernel version vX.Y. I have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and the 2 mic hat. I am on branch v6.6 as that matches my kernal version. When I run the install script I get to the part where it is runing make -j4…

It slowly adds periods like it’s working, but eventually the ssh connection seems to hang. Is there any trick to get this working?

#2

I have the same issue. I also tried to download the prebuild image, but that doesn’t work for me either.

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: b1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1], device 0: bcm2835 HDMI 1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
$ i2cdetect -y 1
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1a -- -- -- -- -- 
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
30: -- -- 32 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
#3

It’s possible that some dependencies were not properly installed or configured. Try running the following commands to ensure that all necessary dependencies are installed before running the build:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
sudo apt-get install cmake
#4

Thank you for the response. I ended up going back to a 32-bit legacy version of Raspbian as that helped me past this problem.
This is good enough for my application but if I have a need to rebuild I will try this.

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#5

I have the same problem, nothing seems to work. I am following the instructions here from a YouTuber known as Jeff, here. His instructions are pretty clean and straight forward, I really like his layout of instructions and all of the included hardware. I am using the same devices ie, Pi zero 2 w and 2-mic hat, but can’t seem to get my device to capture a sound recording, I get at play back is a faint white-noise sound. I am starting to think that it could be my sound card that is defective.