Android Question Graphic equalizer

[Shay]

Hi,
I need to monitor if radio station is running (is generating sound) on remote device, without the ability to be on device location. (issue is that radio is stopping from playing, while I don't see any reason in the code)
Is there any way to add graphic equalizer so I can know if remote device is generating any sound?
or any other way to "see" the sound?

 

[eps]

Are you able to give a bit more information? What sort of remote device is this?

 

[Shay]

Android TV, I have radio player on it, for some reason after a while it is not playing anymore,
but I cannot "see" (hear) if it stopped or not

 

[Erel]

You can use AudioStreamer to capture audio. If the environment is quiet there then it should probably won't be too difficult to analyze it and find out whether it is playing or not.

 

[Shay]

capture audio on remote device and send it to me?

 

[Erel]

Might be simpler to analyze it on the device itself.

 

[Shay]

but I am not near the device, and it is on public place. this is why I am was thinking to put graphic equlizer

 

[eps]

Hmm.... are you able to check logs on the device? Maybe check this?

There seem to be a few suggestions on the web - but you might have to dig a little deeper to get to it using B4A.

Are you saying that you've got a 'server' which is running radio player and you want to access it remotely and check the services or Apps running on it?

 

[Shay]

I am playing radio station on TV, I need to know remotely that people can hear the radio station
(I added logs on screen, hopefully I can find what is going on)

 

[eps]

Yes - but if you write to a logfile you can check this to see if the App is still running - or is it a 3rd party App?

 

[Shay]

I am pretty sure app is still running, I saw it live - but there was no sound.
I am using echo player library

 

[eps]

Maybe something else failed?

 

[Shay]

The app is background service, and timer is used to .play the link every X time
so I was told no music again, so I opened the GUI remotely and saw that timer was stopped to update 4 hours ago (I added log each time it enter the timer)
once I entered the GUI, it entered main resume, and timer started again.
I checked the app store, no crash
what can be the reason for timer to stop from running in the background? (with "no" reason)

 

[eps]

Don't know I'm afraid - put to sleep due to 'inactivity'..?

Are you able to check the log remotely and restart the App if it hasn't been written to recently?

 

[Erel]

You must start a foreground service if you want your app to keep running in the background.

 

[Shay]

Actually I do use foreground:

Sub Service_Start (StartingIntent As Intent)

    If ServiceRunning=False Then
        CallSubDelayed2(MainMenu,"WriteDebug","Starting service")
        pk.GetVersionName("radiotv.com")
        n.Initialize
        n.Icon = "icon"
        n.SetInfo("RadioTV", "RadioTV Service", MainMenu)
        n.Vibrate = False
        Service.StartForeground (1,n)
        ServiceRunning = True
        Lic = False
        Stations.Initialize
        player1.Initialize("player")
        Check_Dates
    End If
End Sub

Then I enable the timer, and:

Sub Timer1_Tick

    Dim dd As String
    dd = DateTime.Time(DateTime.Now)
    CallSubDelayed2(MainMenu,"WriteDebug", dd & " - Timer1")
    DateTime.DateFormat = "yyyy/MM/dd:H"
    Day = FindDayOfWeek
    Hour = DateTime.GetHour(DateTime.Now)
   
    Dim i As Int
    Dim d1, d2 As String
    d1 = DateTime.GetYear(DateTime.Now) & "/" & DateTime.GetMonth(DateTime.Now) & "/" & DateTime.GetDayOfMonth(DateTime.Now)
   
    For i=0 To Holydays.Size-1
        d2 = Holydays.Get(i)
        If d1.CompareTo(d2) = 0 Then
            Holyday = True
        Else
            Holyday = False   
        End If
    Next
       
    If (((Day = 6 And Hour > 17 ) Or (Day = 7 And Hour < 21 )) And Holyday = True ) Then
        CallSubDelayed2(MainMenu,"WriteDebug","Shabat")
        player1.Pause
    Else
        player1.Play
    End If
       
End Sub

 

[Shay]

I am attaching here my project, if someone can take a look if I missed something

 

[Erel]

I checked the app store, no crash

This doesn't mean that it hasn't crashed.

 

[Shay]

since the app was still running, but logs were saying that refresh was stopped (4 hours ago)
Erel do you see any issue with the attached code?

 

[Erel]

Erel do you see any issue with the attached code?

This request is a bit too broad for me.