Hi Folks!

In my opinion I have now a great Idea for a application to learn and contribute to the first N900 coding competition.

Yes, it will be great! But I don't want to share my Idea now... (Apple could steal it before I finished it)

It's a lot of work to do. So I will begin soon to finish before the deadline. I finished the script and some mockups for the UI, I know how to store in a Database, how to read binary files... I guess I can figure out how to draw images on the screen, store them on mmc1 and to see if the battery is charging. No problems so far for my, only work... except one of the core elements I don't know how to solve...

Without that the application is useless. So, I hope here is someone who can help me to finish my (top secret) project in PyQt4:

I need to read every 100ms the volume peak, the average input level or the maximum input level or something similar from the microphone. I don't want to record the stream or something else... just: noise out there, 20% of 100% maximum peak or 80%? A simple integer value how loud the environment is. I don't need more.

Are there someone out there who could show me the way?

I looked into the code of Tuner, but its to much for my needs and C++.

Is portaudio19-dev useful for me?

So please help so that I can start with my project!