attempt with disabled portaudio termination

modem/audio.py

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ def get_audio_devices():
 
     # we need to reset and initialize sounddevice before running the multiprocessing part.
     # If we are not doing this at this early point, not all devices will be displayed
-    sd._terminate()
-    sd._initialize()
+    #sd._terminate()
+    #sd._initialize()
 
     # log.debug("[AUD] get_audio_devices")
     with multiprocessing.Manager() as manager:

modem/config.py

@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ class CONFIG:
 
     # converts values of settings from String to Value.
     # For example 'False' (type String) will be converted to False (type Bool)
+    # This is also needed, because configparser reads configs as string
+    # configparser has a type conversion, but we would have to do this for every
+    # item. This approach is more flexible
     def convert_types(self, config):
         for setting in config:
             value = config[setting]