[WriteLog] WriteLog & Microkeyer II

[Joe Wilkowski]

I should have been  a bit more specific.  Yes, there are two sound 
cards.  This whole thing worked fine BEFORE I went to WL 11.18.  The two 
sound cards are microHam and the embedded Realtek sound card.  In the 
Window 7 control panel "Sound" item , the default system playback is 
Realtek High Definition Speakers and the Recording tab has Realtek High 
Definition Stereo Mix as the default device.  The microHAM Headset 
Microphone = Currently Unavailable and the  microHAM Line = READY.  No 
default windows devices are microHAM according to the control panel.  
Yet, I still get the same results.

I only was describing the things I attempted.  You don't know unless you 
try something different.

So the situation is as I have described.  The machine has it's own 
soundboard as the default Windows sound devices for recording and 
playback and WriteLog has the microHAM codecs.

I still get the same messages as I described below in my original post.

""There is some Writelog glue that is not apparent.  When I open Writelog
with NO codecs selected in the Writelog.INI file I do NOT get the error
message
"Error setting up device names for sound, Vista-Style" which is right,
there are none selected.  BUT in all cases , including when I have
codecs selected,  after the program starts  I get another error message
saying "Cant open sound card (3)"  This indicates to me that Writelog is
still trying to open a sound card that is in a different position ""

Joe K8FC




On 1/3/2014 8:24 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
>> 3. Eliminated all other Audio Codecs in the system . The MicroHAM
>> Codec is the only audio device available to any application. Same
>> result.
>
> *You can't do this!*  Windows *must* have a default device for system
> input and system output.  Windows *will not* allow any application to
> change any setting of the input device or output device and will not
> allow any application to use any other input or any other output on
> that card.
>
> If you have *only* "microHAM CODEC" in the system, Windows will take
> "headset microphone (microHAM CODEC)" as the system recording device
> and "headset earphone (microHAM CODEC)" as the system output device
> (Windows noises, streaming audio, etc.).  WriteLog *will not* be able
> to select "headset microphone (microHAM CODEC)" for recording DVK
> messages and "Line (microHAM CODEC)" for digital decoding/recording
> of the contest.  When WriteLog can not select inputs it *will*
> throw up the "Error setting up device names for sound, Vista-Style"
> error message.
>
> *THIS WILL HAPPEN WITH ANY WINDOWS VISTA/7/8 SYSTEM*  IF WINDOWS IS
> "LOCKING" THE INPUTS, YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ERROR MESSAGE.  A word
> to the wise: *USE TWO SOUND CARDS* - let Windows control the one
> your are *not* using for the radio.
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
> On 1/3/2014 8:00 PM, Joe Wilkowski wrote:
>> I run my station remote.  I just upgraded to 11.18 and now all I get is
>> "Error setting up device names for sound, Vista-Style"  I know what this
>> error means and I know that the sound devices do not appear to Writelog
>> in the same order as the last time it was started.  I have encountered
>> and fixed the issue before.  I know all that but, and a big but, No
>> matter what I do with the PC and the WRITELOG.INI file I still get the
>> error when launching WriteLog application.
>>
>> Steps I have taken.
>>
>> 1. Eliminated all sound card references in c:/windows/WRITELOG.INI file.
>> (over and over again)
>> 2. I have run the  WriteLog Sound Board Mixer Control application and
>> selected the proper Codecs IE: xmit from PC = Headset Earphone
>> (4-microHAM CODEC) DVK mic=Headset Microphone (4-microHAM CODEC) and rec
>> to PC=Line(4-microHAM CODEC).  (over and over again)
>> 3.  Eliminated all other Audio Codecs in the system .  The MicroHAM
>> Codec is the only audio device available to any application. Same 
>> result.
>>
>> There is some Writelog glue that is not apparent.  When I open Writelog
>> with NO codecs selected in the Writelog.INI file I do NOT get the error
>> message
>> "Error setting up device names for sound, Vista-Style" which is right,
>> there are none selected.  BUT in all cases , including when I have
>> codecs selected,  after the program starts  I get another error message
>> saying "Cant open sound card (3)"  This indicates to me that Writelog is
>> still trying to open a sound card that is in a different position but,
>> there are none.  Only the MicroHAM codec.  There are NO other
>> Writelog.ini files on that machine.
>>
>> I have re-installed WL (but not a full up installation) but I am 1500
>> miles from the host PC.  I can do most anything to the PC except unplug
>> the Microkeyer II, that  I cannot do.
>>
>> Any ideas ?  Anyone seen this before ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Joe K8FC
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