USB Microphone not detected by ha audio

[skylatian]

My USB microphone is not recognized as an input device in Home Assistant. Pulseaudio doesn't see it, by extension neither does HA. It is detected properly in settings (homeassistant.local:8123/config/hardware), and disappears when unplugged.

In homeassistant.local:8123/config/hardware:

controlC2
/dev/snd/by-id/usb-BLUE_MICROPHONE_Blue_Snowball_201306-00
Subsystem:
sound
Device path:
/dev/snd/controlC2
ID:
/dev/snd/by-id/usb-BLUE_MICROPHONE_Blue_Snowball_201306-00
Attributes:
DEVLINKS: >-
  /dev/snd/by-id/usb-BLUE_MICROPHONE_Blue_Snowball_201306-00
  /dev/snd/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2:1.0
DEVNAME: /dev/snd/controlC2
DEVPATH: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/sound/card2/controlC2
ID_BUS: usb
ID_MODEL: Blue_Snowball
ID_MODEL_ENC: Blue\x20Snowball\x20
ID_MODEL_ID: '0005'
ID_PATH: pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2:1.0
ID_PATH_TAG: pci-0000_00_14_0-usb-0_2_1_0
ID_REVISION: '0100'
ID_SERIAL: BLUE_MICROPHONE_Blue_Snowball_201306
ID_SERIAL_SHORT: '201306'
ID_TYPE: audio
ID_USB_DRIVER: snd-usb-audio
ID_USB_INTERFACES: ':010100:010200:030000:'
ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM: '00'
ID_USB_MODEL: Blue_Snowball
ID_USB_MODEL_ENC: Blue\x20Snowball\x20
ID_USB_MODEL_ID: '0005'
ID_USB_REVISION: '0100'
ID_USB_SERIAL: BLUE_MICROPHONE_Blue_Snowball_201306
ID_USB_SERIAL_SHORT: '201306'
ID_USB_TYPE: audio
ID_USB_VENDOR: BLUE_MICROPHONE
ID_USB_VENDOR_ENC: BLUE\x20MICROPHONE
ID_USB_VENDOR_ID: 0d8c
ID_VENDOR: BLUE_MICROPHONE
ID_VENDOR_ENC: BLUE\x20MICROPHONE
ID_VENDOR_ID: 0d8c
MAJOR: '116'
MINOR: '12'
SUBSYSTEM: sound
SYSTEMD_USER_WANTS: sound.target
SYSTEMD_WANTS: sound.target
TAGS: ':systemd:'
USEC_INITIALIZED: '112966843604'

command outputs:

~ pactl list short sources                                                        
0       alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor      module-alsa-card.c      s16le 2ch 48000Hz       RUNNING

~ ha audio info
audio:
  application:
  - addon: 47701997_assist_microphone
    index: 3
    mute: false
    name: ALSA plug-in [aplay]
    stream_index: 0
    stream_type: input
    volume: 1
  card:
  - driver: module-alsa-card.c
    index: 0
    name: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_03.0
    profiles:
    - active: true
      description: "Off"
      name: "off"
  - driver: module-alsa-card.c
    index: 1
    name: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0
    profiles:
    - active: true
      description: Analog Stereo Output
      name: output:analog-stereo
    - active: false
      description: Analog Stereo Duplex
      name: output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
    - active: false
      description: "Off"
      name: "off"
  input: []
  output:
  - applications: []
    card: 1
    default: true
    description: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
    index: 0
    mute: false
    name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
    volume: 1
host: x.x.x.x
update_available: false
version: 2023.06.0
version_latest: 2023.06.0

~ dmesg | grep -E 'usb'
[93607.330050] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0d8c, idProduct=0005, bcdDevice= 1.00
[93607.330064] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[93607.330070] usb 3-1: Product: Blue Snowball 
[93607.330075] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: BLUE MICROPHONE
[93607.330079] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 201306
[93607.337452] hid-generic 0003:0D8C:0005.0001: hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Device [BLUE MICROPHONE Blue Snowball ] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1/input2

[agners]

Does restarting the Audio plug-in helps (ha audio restart)? There was a bug in hot-plugging which should be resolved with the latest Supervisor 2023.10.1 release.

[skylatian]

looks like the update fixed it! will update if anything changes, seems to be working for now.