Broken Examples: audio not available

[leighmhart]

Hi, I'm having a great time with my Galactic Unicorn (Pico W) - I also wasted an hour trying to flash Pico 2 W Galactic instead of Pico W Galactic but once I got past that PEBKAC, I was trying out some of the 1.24.3 audio examples at https://github.com/pimoroni/unicorn/tree/v1.24.3/examples/galactic_unicorn/audio but sadly get an error:

>>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 6, in <module>
ImportError: no module named 'audio'

I'm trying the simple_playback.py example:

from audio import WavPlayer

sound = WavPlayer(0, 10, 11, 9, amp_enable=22)

sound.play_wav("beepboop.wav", False)

while sound.is_playing():
    pass

[leighmhart]

gah, it's not a micropython library is why - I put audio.py it on the filesystem and... well, I've got other issues (no sound) that aren't PEBKAC.

[Gadgetoid]

gah, it's not a micropython library is why - I put audio.py it on the filesystem

😬 to be fair we should have baked that in to the build and I'll re-open this issue to track that.

Any luck in the intervening hours?

[leighmhart]

@Gadgetoid yes I did get WAV files playing (after the understanding set in that the wav files need to be on the device ;-). It was my first evening tinkering, and it worked well! I wrote an mqtt client on the Unicorn to receive notifications / messages / etc from the Home Assistant Mosquitto broker to enable messages to be sent with optional audio files to the display.

I'm more of an occasional hack than a developer but the experience has been smooth overall with MicroPython 👍