MMM-AssistantMk2

citizendevpi

@sean arecord: main:788: audio open error: Device or resource busy and where is my error log?

A Former User

@citizendevpi
Your system seems not properly configured to use audio device. that might be not the issue of module itself.
And you can see the log with

pm2 log mm #or your registered process name for MagicMirror

or
stop pm2 then npm start dev in your MM directory.

A Former User

@citizendevpi
Anyway,
You should confirm to check your audio device card and name, and your RPI should be able to run below commands (or similar)

arecord -d 5 test.wav

or

arecord --device plughw:1,0 -d 5  test.wav

(plughw:1,0 might be different. You should find your proper device card and number with arecord -l)

citizendevpi

@sean said in MMM-AssistantMk2 & MMM-GAction:

arecord --device plughw:1,0 -d 5 test.wav

A Former User

@citizendevpi said in MMM-AssistantMk2 & MMM-GAction:

arecord --device plughw:1,0 -d 5 test.wav

That works? If so, you can set your config record.device: "plughw:1,0",

citizendevpi

@citizendevpi pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -d 5 test.wav
Recording WAVE ‘test.wav’ : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -l)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token )' pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -1 arecord: invalid option -- '1' Try arecord --help’ for more information.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord --device plughw:1,0 -d 5 test.wav
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1713:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
arecord: main:788: audio open error: No such file or directory

A Former User

@citizendevpi
Ok. forget my previous answer.

arecord -l

It’s l (small L), not 1 (one)

citizendevpi

@sean **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpigooglevoi [snd_rpi_googlevoicehat_soundcar], device 0: Google voiceHAT SoundCard HiFi voicehat-hifi-0 []
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

A Former User

@citizendevpi
Your recording device is plughw:0,0. or default. Remember it.

Then try this.

arecord -d 10 test.wav

Say something. It will be record your voice to test.wav on 10 secs.
Works?

If so, then,

aplay test.wav

It should play previous recording from arecord. Can you hear anything?

citizendevpi

@sean yes barley
but yes