No sound while using AIY voice kit v1

[maryball2]

I'm using the AIY voice kit from google and whenever I play sound through my raspberry Pi it doesn't play. I have tried to add the --device hw:0,0 qualifier to execstart command. Here is what aplay -l gives if thats any help

List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: sndrpigooglevoi [snd_rpi_googlevoicehat_soundcar], device 0: Google voiceHAT SoundCard HiFi voicehat-codec-0 [] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

And this is what sudo systemctl status raspotify shows

● raspotify.service - Raspotify Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/raspotify.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-04-09 21:26:29 BST; 47s ago Process: 10706 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/cache/raspotify (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 10707 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown raspotify:raspotify /var/cache/raspotify (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 10708 (librespot) Tasks: 4 (limit: 2200) Memory: 3.6M CGroup: /system.slice/raspotify.service └─10708 /usr/bin/librespot --name raspotify (picroft) --backend alsa --bitrate 160 --disable-audio-cache --enable-volume-normalisation --linear-volume --initial-volume=100 --device hw:0,1

Apr 09 21:26:51 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:26:51Z ERROR librespot_playback::audio_backend::alsa] Alsa error PCM open ALSA function 'snd_pcm_open' failed with error 'ENOENT: No such file or directory' Apr 09 21:26:51 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:26:51Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Could not start audio: Alsa error: PCM open failed Apr 09 21:26:56 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:26:56Z ERROR librespot_playback::audio_backend::alsa] Alsa error PCM open ALSA function 'snd_pcm_open' failed with error 'ENOENT: No such file or directory' Apr 09 21:26:56 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:26:56Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Could not start audio: Alsa error: PCM open failed Apr 09 21:27:01 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:27:01Z ERROR librespot_playback::audio_backend::alsa] Alsa error PCM open ALSA function 'snd_pcm_open' failed with error 'ENOENT: No such file or directory' Apr 09 21:27:01 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:27:01Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Could not start audio: Alsa error: PCM open failed Apr 09 21:27:06 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:27:06Z ERROR librespot_playback::audio_backend::alsa] Alsa error PCM open ALSA function 'snd_pcm_open' failed with error 'ENOENT: No such file or directory' Apr 09 21:27:06 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:27:06Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Could not start audio: Alsa error: PCM open failed Apr 09 21:27:11 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:27:11Z ERROR librespot_playback::audio_backend::alsa] Alsa error PCM open ALSA function 'snd_pcm_open' failed with error 'ENOENT: No such file or directory' Apr 09 21:27:11 picroft librespot[10708]: [2020-04-09T20:27:11Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Could not start audio: Alsa error: PCM open failed

[KevinVitale]

I'm also having the same issue. Is this on a Raspberry Pi 4 by chance?

EDIT: Not sure if this helps, sound finally came out of the speaker after killing pulseaudio:

$ pulseaudio -k

[shawaj]

This is interesting, mentions something needing changing in pulseaudio https://github.com/google/aiyprojects-raspbian/blob/aiyprojects/HACKING.md#install-voice-bonnethat-packages

You may also need to disable module-suspend-on-idle PulseAudio module for the Voice HAT:

sudo sed -i -e "s/^load-module module-suspend-on-idle/#load-module module-suspend-on-idle/" /etc/pulse/default.pa

[bhagan0402]

This is interesting, mentions something needing changing in pulseaudio https://github.com/google/aiyprojects-raspbian/blob/aiyprojects/HACKING.md#install-voice-bonnethat-packages

You may also need to disable module-suspend-on-idle PulseAudio module for the Voice HAT:

sudo sed -i -e "s/^load-module module-suspend-on-idle/#load-module module-suspend-on-idle/" /etc/pulse/default.pa

Did not work for me. Using RPi 3b+ and i get no output from anything and raspotify disconnects when I pause.

[aguennegou]

I'm also having the same issue. Is this on a Raspberry Pi 4 by chance?

EDIT: Not sure if this helps, sound finally came out of the speaker after killing pulseaudio:

$ pulseaudio -k

Thanks ! It worked for me as well !

[JasonLG1979]

Raspotify is primarily intended to be used in a headless enviroment (Raspberry Pi OS lite) For desktop versions of Raspberry Pi OS (and/or systems with PulseAudio installed) spotifyd offers similar functionality, much better PulseAudio compatibility and is a better choice.