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author | Loïc Collignon <loic.collignon@iot.bzh> | 2018-09-10 10:36:46 +0200 |
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committer | Loïc Collignon <loic.collignon@iot.bzh> | 2018-10-01 15:46:43 +0200 |
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Updated documentation
Updated documentation up to date and using the gitbook format.
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diff --git a/docs/4a-framework/concepts.md b/docs/4a-framework/concepts.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dba024d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/4a-framework/concepts.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# Concepts + +A user application requests to open an audio role, which is bound to a stream, +which is bound to a zone. This allows the application to only care about the +audio role. + +For example, a navigation application can request the **navigation** role, which +is bound to the **navigation** stream defined by the HAL. This stream is bound +to the **driver** zone, which is the closest speaker to the driver. + +## Roles + +The high level API allows applications to open roles such as **emergency**, +**navigation** or **multimedia**. A role is bound to a stream, which is +basically a device URI. When a role is opened, then the policy engine is +notified and executes an interrupt on every other opened role with a lower +priority. An interrupt is a policy engine function that can change the volume, +mute or unmute, change the stream's state. + +This behaviour allows the policy engine to take actions like lowering the radio +volume when an application wants to play something on the emergency role. + +## Streams + +A stream is basically a device URI that you can open to write audio data. For +example, it can be "hw:2,0,1", which means that you have to use this as an alsa +device URI. + +## Zones + +Multiple speakers are spread around inside a vehicule, they are named depending +on their position, like **front-center**, **front-left**, **front-right**, +**rear-left**, **rear-right**, etc... + +Zones are an abstraction of positional audio. A zone is made of one or more +speakers and describes logical audio areas like **driver**, **front**, **rear**, +etc. |