A little more information about cli-client?

[dickorydock]

Since I'm still debugging why the mic doesn't respond, it would be helpful to add a note about how to actually access the cli-client in the section where you introduce that.

I tried ./start-mycroft.sh cli but got a bunch of errors.

I tried running ovos-cli-client and got this log:

2023-03-03 00:57:15.430 - OVOS - ovos_config.models:load_local:95 - DEBUG - Configuration /home/ovos/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mycroft/configuration/mycroft.conf loaded
2023-03-03 00:57:15.578 - OVOS - ovos_config.models:load_local:99 - DEBUG - Configuration '/etc/mycroft/mycroft.conf' not defined, skipping
2023-03-03 00:57:15.713 - OVOS - ovos_config.models:load_local:99 - DEBUG - Configuration '/home/ovos/.config/mycroft/web_cache.json' not defined, skipping
2023-03-03 00:57:15.859 - OVOS - ovos_config.models:load_local:95 - DEBUG - Configuration /home/ovos/.config/mycroft/mycroft.conf loaded
2023-03-03 00:57:16.005 - OVOS - ovos_config.models:load_local:99 - DEBUG - Configuration '/etc/xdg/mycroft/mycroft.conf' not defined, skipping
2023-03-03 00:57:16.146 - OVOS - ovos_config.models:load_local:99 - DEBUG - Configuration '/home/ovos/.mycroft/mycroft.conf' not defined, skipping
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ovos/.local/bin/ovos-cli-client", line 5, in <module>
    from ovos_cli_client.__main__ import main
  File "/home/ovos/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ovos_cli_client/__main__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from ovos_cli_client.text_client import (
  File "/home/ovos/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ovos_cli_client/text_client.py", line 37, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")  # Set LC_ALL to user default
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/locale.py", line 610, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

[dickorydock]

Nevermind, I figured it out by changing my etc/default/locale file like they did in the answer to this question. I can interact with the cli now but still no sound out of the speakers or indication that it hears the wake word. In the audio.log I do see this:

ERROR - DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS not set and could not get DISPLAY environment variable to get bus address

[builderjer]

What is the output of aplay -l And arecord -l Those should show your devices at least

[builderjer]

Also, did you set the locale with sudo raspi-config

[dickorydock]

Yes, I used sudo raspi-config.

Output from aplay -l:

card 0: Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones], device 0: bcm2835 Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: vc4hdmi [vc4-hdmi], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: UACDemoV10 [UACDemoV1.0], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Output from arecord -l:

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 2: CameraB409241 [USB Camera-B4.09.24.1], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: UACDemoV10 [UACDemoV1.0], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[builderjer]

and I am assuming that you want to use the UACDemoV10 device for output, and the USB camera for a mic? If you set those devices as active using alsamixer do you get any change?

[dickorydock]

Yes. that's what I want. Here's what I tried: alsamixer F3 (Show playback controls) F6 (Select sound card) Selected UACDemoV1.0 Enter F4 (Show capture controls) F6 (Select sound card) Selected USB Camera-B4.09.24.1 Enter At this point it exits alsamixer and I get the error: cannot load mixer: Invalid argument

[builderjer]

Try a reboot and see if things load properly after that. There may need to be a .asoundrc file according to this site https://9to5answer.com/alsamixer-cannot-open-mixer-invalid-argument

[dickorydock]

I tried reboot but that didn't change anything. I have followed the steps there but when I run ovos@raspberrypi:/etc $ cat /proc/asound/cards I see

0 [Headphones     ]: bcm2835_headpho - bcm2835 Headphones
                      bcm2835 Headphones
 1 [vc4hdmi        ]: vc4-hdmi - vc4-hdmi
                      vc4-hdmi
 2 [CameraB409241  ]: USB-Audio - USB Camera-B4.09.24.1
                      OmniVision Technologies, Inc. USB Camera-B4.09.24.1 at usb-3f980000.usb-1.3, hi
 3 [UACDemoV10     ]: USB-Audio - UACDemoV1.0
                      Jieli Technology UACDemoV1.0 at usb-3f980000.usb-1.4, full speed

I tried changing the values in asound.conf to 2 or 3 but no difference so far.

[builderjer]

Does pactl list sinks' orpactl list sources` show anything

[dickorydock]

No, both say pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

[builderjer]

Pulseaudio is not running systemctl --user restart pulseaudio

[builderjer]

you may also have to disable suspend-on-idle in default.pa also sudo sed -i -e "s/^load-module module-suspend-on-idle/#load-module module-suspend-on-idle/" /etc/pulse/default.pa systemctl --user restart pulseaudio

[builderjer]

@dickorydock Has this been resolved?

[builderjer]

I believe that these have been resolved in the dev branch. I am closing this but feel free to open another with new information