Microphone/MMM-voice Help

richland007

@strawberry-3-141 Ok so i have a very similar situation i have AlexaPi (and MMM-AlexaPi for visual feedback) and want to use MMM-voice and Hello-Lucy. I have 2 USB microphones (a webcam that i talk to AlexaPI and a USB sound card that i want to use for MMM-voice)
On the config.js i have assigned microphone id of 2 for MMM-voice ( arecord -l and the install of MMM-voice show that alsa as 0 USB webcam as card 1 and USB sound card as card 2)
when i start magic mirror MMM-voice says “initializing” than briefly “Waiting for module commands” than settles on “error”
My questions are:

and i am pretty sure i have an answer for this is that AlexaPi and MMM-voice can they use the same mic or not … most likely not .
why isn’t using microphone #2 straight forward do i have to twitch anything on alsa config, etc will pulse audio be better and what is the difference ?? how do we mitigate this problem??

I have tested and confirmed that both usb microphones work when they are plugged each by themselves but not when they are both simultaneously plugged in only the webcam would record … i am not sure if i am putting the right parameter here “arecord hw:1,0 -d 10 /tmp/test-mic.wav”

Please any help will be greatly appreciated
Denis

TheGeekfather

@richland007

I too am trying to get Hello-Lucy/Voice to work with my usb soundcard and microphone. I can record outside of MagicMirror so that works but I have the same problem:

“displays mic flashing symbol and just says initialising and undefined at bottom”

I have tried following the documentation but still no luck

Anyone get Hello-Lucy to work?

sdetweil

@TheGeekfather use arecord -l and lsusb to find the hw: device id needed…

Mykle1

@TheGeekfather
@sdetweil
@cowboysdude

My apologies, gentlemen. There is a problem with the mic upon install that seems to be specific to the Pi. @cowboysdude did an install late last night and he encountered the same issue, so forgive me. I am looking at it right now and will not sleep until it is resolved. Not!

Seriously, it will be fixed ASAP.

Thank you for your patience and interest.

TheGeekfather

@Mykle1

AWESOME - it is such a great module and to get the mic working would be great !!!

Mykle1

@TheGeekfather

Sorry about the trouble, man. Totally my fault. Thanks for your patience and interest

Mykle1

@TheGeekfather

Please try adding microphone: "0", to your config entry. If that does not work please try microphone: "1",

EXAMPLE: Just add the microphone line.

keyword: 'HELLO LUCY', 
microphone: "0",
 timeout: 7,

TheGeekfather

@Mykle1

It says Initializing “undefined” with line through flashing mic icon with both 0 and 1

Mykle1

@TheGeekfather

Hmm, ok, working on it

TheGeekfather

@Mykle1

When I try “0” no flashing mic but still “undefined”

I can hear “hello Michael what would you like to see” and then say “Hello Lucy”

but no mic input

mic works - tried arecord

Mykle1

@TheGeekfather

Understood. Lets move this to the Hello-Lucy topic, if you don’t mind

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6241/hello-lucy/192

TheGeekfather

@Mykle1

Yes :)