MMM-GoogleAssistant by Bugsounet isn't taking my GoogleAIY microphone

JamRaps

https://gyazo.com/331d0b99d17f16a21218816a6650e329
As seen in this photo, MMM-GoogleAssistant is detecting my GoogleAIY microphone, but every time I try and use it, it says “current configuration not Working”, and subdevices says 0/1. I was just wondering if this module doesn’t work with the Google AIY kit, and if I should get a usb mic. Please let me know if there is a fix for this. Thanks!

robfer

@JamRaps

I want to try to follow this thread too, because I’ve the same problem with GoogleAIY, while the mic works perfectly with the demo python Google AIY code.

robfer

@JamRaps

do you have some new info ?

I’m continuing the investigation :
after a lot of try I found that the problem is maybe connected to pulseaudio and arecord

if, very fast, inside a terminal connected in ssh to the mirror, inside htop I kill the third process of pulseaudio (the mic?) and I say Jarvis wake up word the MMM/GA hear me and it try correctly to answer me , but the pulseaudio process (correctly?) respawn and only two time (for lucky my credential are ok!) I can see the answer but after this this the mic is blocked again

info founded here
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1207680/stop-pulseaudio-from-restarting-under-gdm-systemd-other-answers-do-not-work
still searching for the correct solution 😞

sdetweil

@robfer there was an update to the hat code last year that fixed a problem lile this…

robfer

@sdetweil Hi, I’ve taken the latest raspberri Pi OS
of the 11 january 2021 for a full restart

and added the info for AIY HAT v1
that I found here
https://github.com/google/aiyprojects-raspbian/blob/aiyprojects/HACKING.md#install-aiy-software-on-an-existing-raspbian-system

but no luck, I’m always blocked

raf

i also had problems with my micro in the beginning and removed pulseaudio from the pi and had no more problems
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge pulseaudio