IOError: [Errno Device unavailable] -9985

[WillBishop]

Using Flooie's voice-command fork, I get this error

Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736 Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1904 Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2171 Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2840 Traceback (most recent call last): File "start.py", line 37, in sleep_time=0.03) File "/home/pi/Desktop/VOICETEST/AlexaPi/snowboydecoder.py", line 190, in start main.start() File "/home/pi/Desktop/VOICETEST/AlexaPi/main.py", line 61, in start recordAudio() File "/home/pi/Desktop/VOICETEST/AlexaPi/main.py", line 82, in recordAudio frames_per_buffer=CHUNK) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyaudio.py", line 747, in open stream = Stream(self, _args, *_kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyaudio.py", line 442, in init self._stream = pa.open(**arguments) IOError: [Errno Device unavailable] -9985

[DigitalOSH]

Did you ever get anywhere with that? I'm in the same boat

[renekliment]

This project is now deprecated in favor of the new AlexaPi (https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi) which has all the features of this project and much more, such as:

• support for a wide range of devices and platforms (Raspberry Pi, CHIP, Orange Pi, desktops, Magic Mirror and others)
• voice activation (great PocketSphinx support and snowboy support soon to be released)
• much more robust installation and configuration
• better security
• Arch Linux support
• awesome documentation
• and much, much more! You get it - it's just awesome.

Please switch over to the new project and if your issue persists there, file an issue in the new repo's issue tracker. Thank you.