If you make any mistake along the way, you can press Control + C to abort.

The wizard will display 'Successfully written config file' at the end'. Make sure you keep pressing the SAME button and that you DON'T HOLD the button down!.' We turn the volume knob clockwise until a dot appears. When the wizard says: 'Please press an arbitrary button repeatedly as fast as possible. When the wizard says: 'Please enter the name for the next button (press to finish recording)' We press 'ENTER' key to tell wizard that we want to stop recording. When the wizard says: Now hold down button 'KEY_VOLUMEDOWN' We continuously turn the volume know ANTI-clockwise until the wizard tell us to do something else. When the wizard says: Please enter the name for the next button (press to finish recording) We type KEY_VOLUMEDOWN We continuously turn the volume know clockwise until the wizard tell us to do something else. When the wizard says: Now hold down button 'KEY_VOLUMEUP'. When the wizard says 'Please enter the name for the next button (press to finish recording)' We type KEY_VOLUMEUP When wizard says: 'Hold down an arbitrary button' We continuously turn the volume knob clockwise. Run the program irrecord $irrecord -device=hw:0,0 -driver=alsa_usb my_lirc_nf Stop the LIRC daemon $sudo service lirc stop $cd ~

2 speakers connected to Raspberry Pi's audio/video 3.5mm socket.

You must UNINSTALL PulseAudio or any other sound servers.

Pulse Audio and OSS are NOT installed.

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k4.1.10-v7+.

Raspbian based on Debian Version 8.0 (a.k.a Jessie).

This instructables will NOT cover the following

Use ALSA utilities to test sound card and sound device.

Configure LIRC's IREXEC to map LIRC keys and control ALSA software volume control.

Configure LIRC's Daemon to monitor ALSA device's Infrared Receiver.

Train LIRC to capture signals received by the hard volume knob of the sound card.

This instructable will cover the following: The surprising thing is that the built-in volume knob communicates with the sound card's infrared receiver and Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) could read the signals received by the sound card's infrared receiver. However, this particular sound card that I purchased did not come with remote control in the box. So after digging around, I learned that the sound card has an infrared receiver interface. I felt it was a shame to leave it at that. However, the sound card's built-in hard volume knob (the shiny circular object as shown in the picture) was still unusable. After completing 'Create a Volume Control for USB Sound Card in Raspberry Pi' instructable, the volume of the sound card is controllable by a 'software' volume controller.

Sound blaster x fi surround 5.1