<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">After an Amazon misfire, I ordered a different ($30) HDMI convertor. Bad news - to function, this device needs to sync with something on the HDMI OUT side like a TV or monitor. It won't send audio to the 3.5mm or SPDIF unless that happens first. After it syncs, you can unplug the HDMI out, but that means leaving it plugged into a display all the time so that it initializes correctly on power up. That's no good.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">I ended up changing the script to use python3, and SimpleAudio (py3 only?) instead of pygame. It's missing a couple of features I wanted from pygame (audio fade), but I made it work anyways. Both SimpleAudio and pygame are inherently already threaded and support start/stop methods, so I didn't have to worry about that. SimpleAudio, however, seems to honor the amixer setting of using the 3.5mm jack.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">It's nearly time to figure out how to solder this thing to a permaproto board.</div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>
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