MMM-GoogleAssistant/ Assistant2Display : Issues with sound for radio

ZeFX

Hello everyone,

I’ve been playing with vocal control lately, and GA/A2D is a great piece of module !
Great job from @Bugsounet

I’m facing a weird issue that I can’t solve on my own though… I can’t have sound both on the Assistant voice and on the radio/youtube streaming.

Example:

responseConfig: {
      useNative:true,
      playProgram: "mpg321" 
},

Results with above config :
“Jarvis, Bonjour” : I can hear the chimes sound and voice from the assistant
“Jarvis, Mets France Info” : bip sound is ok, logo appears but no sound
“Jarvis, Mickael jackson youtube”: picture but no sound

      responseConfig: {
            useNative:true,
            playProgram: "mpg321" 
      },

Results with above config :
“Jarvis, Bonjour” : I can hear the chimes sound but no sound
“Jarvis, Mets France Info” : bip sound is ok, logo appears with no sound
“Jarvis, Mickael jackson youtube”: video and sound are ok

Tried to change the program with aplay or afplay but no improvement.

Any idea ?

Thanks in advance !

sdetweil

@ZeFX both those responseConfig sections are the same

ZeFX

Thanks @sdetweil … second config should read “useNative:False,”

Example:

responseConfig: {
      useNative:true,
      playProgram: "mpg321" 
},

Results with above config :
“Jarvis, Bonjour” : I can hear the chimes sound and voice from the assistant
“Jarvis, Mets France Info” : bip sound is ok, logo appears but no sound
“Jarvis, Mickael jackson youtube”: picture but no sound

responseConfig: {
           useNative:false,
           playProgram: "mpg321" 
     },

Results with above config :
“Jarvis, Bonjour” : I can hear the chimes sound but no sound
“Jarvis, Mets France Info” : bip sound is ok, logo appears with no sound
“Jarvis, Mickael jackson youtube”: video and sound are ok

Bugsounet

@ZeFX said in MMM-GoogleAssistant/ Assistant2Display : Issues with sound for radio:

  responseConfig: {
        useNative:true,
        playProgram: "mpg321" 
  },

this GA config is ONLY for GA and not A2D (i remember you … it’s 2 different modules )

if you have no sound in A2D it’s because your output sound card is not correcly configured in your RPI desktop try to setup it correctly (sound icon -> make correctly default and reboot)

but generaly in 80% it will not works …
why ?

use USB Sound card output audio (not works correctly with MagicMirror and drivers sucks)
use Pulseaudio … MagicMirror don’t like it (so more issue)
bluetooth using … yes only with pulseaudio … i know

Solve way :

use native 3.5 Jack output or HDMI output
desinstalling pulseaudio (if installed) and reconfigure audio card
not using bluetooth …

I can’t do better actually … I can’t playing Youtube with an MP3 player ! it’s only with HTML5 audio

ZeFX

Thanks for your help !

I understand that it is 2 differents modules, however changing the parameters for “usenative” impacts the sound output for radio… i don’ understand why just what happened while I was trying to sovle the issue.

I don’t have pulseaudio but the speaker is indeed an USB, even though it is working perfectly with VLC, youtube on chromium and so on… I’ll keep looking !

By the way, is there anyway to change the default voice from GA ? From female to male ?

have a nice day,
Cheers

Bugsounet

hi, i don’t send any help … sorry

maybe … try to ask to @MichMich … he have maybe some response

(see my signature)

I strongly advise you to mention it in your comments! ( @MichMich)
thanks in advance
@bugsounet