Developing Saraswati: A robust, multi-channel audio recording, transmission and storage system

Hi there,

in order to better support autonomous field operation, Saraswati 0.4.1 supports being invoked as a systemd service. Configuration will take place in /etc/default/saraswati. There is now a setup subcommand which saves you a few keystrokes to make this happen.

# Install Saraswati as systemd service
sudo saraswati setup --systemd

As the service will be invoked as user saraswati, it has been added to the audio user group in order to be able to access the audio hardware devices [1].

Further documentation about this has been added at Running Saraswati in production.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

/cc @MKO, @Diren, @clemens, @roh, @wtf


  1. Unfortunately, I have not been able to finally test this kind of operation on a Linux machine with real audio hardware, so I will be more than happy about any feedback on this. ↩︎