Sorry if this becomes a long post again…

So - what I’m trying to achieve is having google assistant integrated with Raspotify and play music via my connected bluetooth speaker. Thanks to @bugsounet this is working nearly perfect.

I installed everything like raspotify, the google assistant etc. and it worked like a charm - youtube was playing using my speaker, raspotify was playing using anything but my speaker…

So I googled and figured out that raspotify seems to have issues with bluetooth connected devices…

And thats where the mess started - I stumbled over this: https://github.com/bablokb/pi-btaudio which sounded like it could do the job - I installed it and it completely f****ed up all my audio stuff. I figured it doesn’t like pulseaudio - fine, I uninstalled it. Still does not work. So I continued my google search - seems I thought that the problem is maybe that it does indeed set the default audio play device but completely ignores input devices…

I found the micConfig stuff here:
http://wiki.bugsounet.fr/en/MMM-GoogleAssistant/Tools
but thats not working any longer, guess it is not required any longer…

Further googling led me to change the /etc/asound.conf file to:

pcm.!default "bluealsa"
ctl.!default "bluealsa"
defaults.bluealsa.interface "hci0"
defaults.bluealsa.device "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX"
defaults.bluealsa.profile "a2dp"

pcm.!default
{
    type asym
    playback.pcm
    {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "bluealsa"
    }
    capture.pcm
    {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "hw:2,0"
    }
}            

Since I’m absolutely new to this I fear that this might already be confusing since it looks to me like I’m defining the default pcm device twice - once with “bluealsa” (something that comes from the installed “pi-btaudio” - so I’ve no idea whats actually done there) as well as once with the split between playback and capture device…

However - with that the mirror is at least “working” again… but the audio capturing is completely random now - its barely reacting to the hotwords.
Furthermore I cannot control the volume any longer.
The mirror is randomly restarting every 10 minutes.
The mirror in general is extremely “laggy” and unresponsive.
And last but not least raspotify is still not working :weary_face:

I’m now contemplating how to move on. I could try to get rid of the “pi-btaudio” stuff since this is where all the mess started and reinstall pulseaudio. I could try to still fix the issue - maybe something still not working proberly with the config… Or try something else?

If anybody has a thought how I can proceed I’m more than thankful for any help.

Best regards