Can't get the volume with mciSendString

Hello Everyone!!!

I am working in a multimedio player. I have being working with mcisendstring with fairly success, until recently with two problems, one of which I will like to address in this thread.

I do open, close, play, stop and pause the device ok. I use the seek, position, length. The problem is with trying to retrieve the current volume level, which I am supposed to do with the following statement:

Code:

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Private Function DeviceVolumeGet() As Integer
 
    Dim iSend As String
    Dim iVolIs As Integer
   
     
    If mDeckOpened = True Then       
        iSend = "status " & Trim(mDeckAlias) & " volume"       
        mDeckSendStringResult = Space(128)
        mDeckSendStringRtn = mciSendString(iSend, mDeckSendStringResult, 128, 0)
        iVolIs = Val(RemoveStr(mDeckSendStringResult, Chr(0)))
        DeviceError
        DeviceVolumeGet=iVolIs
    End If
End Function

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The function always returns zero, and the DeviceError procedure always shows the following error.

Quote:

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290;The specified parameter is invalid for this command.

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The iSend string variable holds

Quote:

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status deck volume

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Where deck is the alias declared in the open statement

Can anyone tell what am I doing wrong?

Regards