Alexa works for around 10 minutes but when i say 'Alexa' it wont respond

[samiultahir]

Alexa works for around 5-10 mins but after that when i give it a shout, it doesn't listen or respond by saying 'yes'

I am on a raspberry pi 3 with the desktop version of Raspbian Stretch and would like to have this device on 24/7, just like a normal amazon echo would be.

This is really frustrating as i'm keep on having pull the power cable and put it back in and wait for a full reboot to occur until i can speak to Alexa for around 5-10 mins then it just wont respond and the cycle goes on and on.

I really hope you can resolve this issue...

Thanks

[jclarke0000]

I'm having a similar issue, but in my case Alexa freezes after my first utterance of "Alexa." I am able to ask my first question, but i get no response. After this, AlexaPi seems to be frozen. I need to reboot to get her back.

I think something has happened on Amazon's side of things. Seems coincidental that Echo has just become available is some other countries -- Canada for one. I think Amazon changed something that broke AlexaPi.

[samiultahir]

Yeh probably. I really hope the issue can get fixed!

[renekliment]

I don't see any log here. Read up on the docs: https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi/wiki

[jclarke0000]

More on this. I've tried upgrading to version 1.6, and I'm still getting the same experience. Alexa responds with "Yes" when I first say "Alexa," but does not answer any question I ask, and becomes completely unresponsive afterwards. Here is what I see in the log:

Nov 18 08:49:19 magicmirror systemd[1]: Starting Alexa client for all your devices...
Nov 18 08:49:19 magicmirror systemd[1]: Started Alexa client for all your devices.
Nov 18 08:49:24 magicmirror python[1521]: INFO: Magic Mirror HTTP Server - :5055
Nov 18 08:49:24 magicmirror python[1521]: INFO: Checking Internet Connection ...
Nov 18 08:49:24 magicmirror python[1521]: INFO: Connection OK
Nov 18 08:49:24 magicmirror python[1521]: INFO: AVS token: Requesting a new one
Nov 18 08:49:24 magicmirror python[1521]: INFO: AVS token: Obtained successfully
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: Exception in thread Thread-6:
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: self.run()
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 763, in run
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: File "/opt/AlexaPi/src/main.py", line 508, in trigger_process
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: alexa_speech_recognizer()
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: File "/opt/AlexaPi/src/main.py", line 318, in alexa_speech_recognizer
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: process_response(resp)
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: File "/opt/AlexaPi/src/main.py", line 409, in process_response
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
Nov 18 08:49:50 magicmirror python[1521]: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/AlexaPi-runtime-8i8nGR/65af0ab8-eedc-4f80-9e10-ff0e3c8a35a5#Alexa3P:1.0/2017/11/18/13/fe5f4d96aca646e7a8d0399b422c821b/49:47::TNIH_2V.2f9c9a51-f0f7-4565-b839-676c07c1114bZXV/0_36093145.mp3'

[luismanson]

did you figure it out? im facing the same issue and vave no clue about it.

[luismanson]

a little more of debug output

`2018-01-18 02:18:51 DEBUG: Starting new HTTPS connection (1): access-alexa-na.amazon.com 2018-01-18 02:18:52 DEBUG: Start sending speech to Alexa Voice Service 2018-01-18 02:19:00 DEBUG: End recording 2018-01-18 02:19:00 DEBUG: Finished sending speech to Alexa Voice Service 2018-01-18 02:19:02 DEBUG: Processing Request Response... 2018-01-18 02:19:02 DEBUG: JSON String Returned: { "messageBody": {
"directives": [
{
"namespace": "Speaker",
"name": "SetMute",
"payload": {
"mute": false
}
},
{
"namespace": "SpeechSynthesizer",
"name": "speak",
"payload": {
"contentIdentifier": "amzn1.as-ct.v1.Domain:Application:Knowledge#ACRI#85205af6-978b-40ad-a56c-eab028f0cb8c#Alexa3P:1.0/2018/01/18/05/e66b7bb2e56c4d5194b23762c0ce6da9/18:53::TNIH_2V.1ce99ac8-235e-476a-8ffe-734a15257072ZXV/0",
"audioContent": "cid:85205af6-978b-40ad-a56c-eab028f0cb8c#Alexa3P:1.0/2018/01/18/05/e66b7bb2e56c4d5194b23762c0ce6da9/18:53::TNIH_2V.1ce99ac8-235e-476a-8ffe-734a15257072ZXV/0_377173874"
}
}
]
},
"messageHeader": {}
}
Exception in thread Thread-3: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run self.target(*self.args, **self.__kwargs) File "/opt/AlexaPi/src/main.py", line 611, in trigger_process alexa_speech_recognizer(audio_stream) File "/opt/AlexaPi/src/main.py", line 420, in alexa_speech_recognizer process_response(resp) File "/opt/AlexaPi/src/main.py", line 510, in process_response with open(filename, 'wb') as f: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/AlexaPi-runtime-ahq5I5/85205af6-978b-40ad-a56c-eab028f0cb8c#Alexa3P:1.0/2018/01/18/05/e66b7bb2e56c4d5194b23762c0ce6da9/18:53::TNIH_2V.1ce99ac8-235e-476a-8ffe-734a15257072ZXV/0_377173874.mp3'

^C2018-01-18 02:19:04 DEBUG: Cleaning up playback handler `