Sound Commands cause ScratchGPIO to crash

[emeyeraway]

Using ScratchGPIO6 (or 6plus, 7, or 7plus) ANY sound command I insert into a Sprite causes the screen to jump to the picture of the large red raspberry as soon as it "sees" the command. It will also jump there if I just click on any sound command.

 

I use the audio output to my stereo speakers (through a sound mixer) because I can't get the HDMI cable (connected to the TV) to produce any sound, even after using raspi-config to tell it to.

 

When I use Scratch 1.4, there is no problem with sound commands; they work fine, so the crash problem is peculiar to the GPIO versions of Scratch. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I'm a rank beginner, having discovered RasPi only weeks ago.

 

Ed Meyer

Sarasota, FL

[Steve21]

Don't know if you've tried it yet, but I think that was originally an Issue with Raspbian more than Scratch https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=18684 unless this is a new bug

 

Seems updating the firmware/kernels fixes it.

 

Steve

[emeyeraway]

That didn't do the trick for me, but at this point my problem has been solved. Thanks for your interest.

[LosOjos]

Tagging @SimpleSi in as he's the developer I believe, sure he'd be interested in this

[emeyeraway]

No need. He's the one who solved the problem for me!!

[ALaskaRasPi]

Any chance we could get your fix action?

 

Thanks

[emeyeraway]

Sure! Here it is:

 

To use sound with ScratchGPIO, you currently need to run the "old" version of Scratch

 

Load ScratchGPIO

Once loaded - close it,

Run LX Terminal

type /usr/bin/scratch.old

When Scratch re-opens

File Open and select rsc

 

Thank Simon Walters