Buzzer on GPIO Pins

[Phishfry]

I am back on this topic.

How would I assign GPIO pin with a piezo buzzer to /dev/speaker ?

How to get a buzzer on GPIO Pins.
I know we have GPIO-LED for assigning pins as System LED.

What about /dev/speaker. How can I make a piezo buzzer act as system speaker?

speaker

man.freebsd.org

 

[kent_dorfman766]

I don't really understand what you are asking. Do you want to make a buzz come out of the speaker?

GPIO is generally the last resort for creating/simulating audio waveforms. Hopefully, the speaker itself is backended by a DAC (digital to analog converter) and isn't in any way connected to GPIOs.

 

[SirDice]

GPIO is generally the last resort for creating/simulating audio waveforms.

You typically use PWM to drive a buzzer. That said, there are also 'active' buzzers, they just need a voltage and they'll start buzzing on their own. No 'analog' signal required.

 

[Phishfry]

Yes for multi-tone bootup sound experiment I have these.

KY-006 Passive Buzzer Module - ArduinoModulesInfo

Arduino code & Fritzing part - KY-006 Passive Piezoelectric Buzzer Module, produces a range of sound tones depending on the input frequency.

arduinomodules.info

Truthfully this probably belongs in U-Boot too for a Bios BEEP.
Set pinmux in U-Boot and maybe a u-boot script to toggle pin state for BEEP.

I was investigating that before I fell down the rockchip wormhole.

Just for context I drug this thread in too. I am rehashing an old subject.

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forums.freebsd.org

I found no way to make gpio pins a device like /dev/speaker.

 

[Phishfry]

What about i2s pins? Maybe I could use that for /dev/speaker somehow...
Never messed with i2s.

 

[kent_dorfman766]

You typically use PWM to drive a buzzer. That said, there are also 'active' buzzers, they just need a voltage and they'll start buzzing on their own. No 'analog' signal required.

Driving a buzzer with PWM is wasteful because you don't need to vary the pulse width in a buzzer app. You just want enough average voltage within the window to trigger the relay or vibrate the coil. PWM is better suited to motor control apps, and then using dedicated PWM channels and not emulting thru GPIO (because dedicated PWM channels have their own timers and dont burden the CPU.