Rhasspy and Raspiaudio Mic Ultra +

RASPIAUDIO
#1

Hello,

for a couple of days I have been trying to set up rhasspy on a Pi 3a with the Mic Ultra +. The ultimate goal is to use it as a satellite for rhasspy running as a home assistant addon.

I managed to get audio recording and playback working on the pi. I had to use GitHub - respeaker/seeed-voicecard: 2 Mic Hat, 4 Mic Array, 6-Mic Circular Array Kit, and 4-Mic Linear Array Kit for Raspberry Pi for that, GitHub - RASPIAUDIO/ultra2: This is an enhancement fork with the explicit aim of supporting current shipping Raspbian/Ubuntu kernels without requiring downgrading. Please donate at https://hintak.github.io/ if it works for you. did not work. But followng the install instructions of rhasspy (Installation - Rhasspy) inside the docker containter running rhasspy neither works. /dev/snd is passed on to the container and I think aplay -l lists the correct cards inside docker. At this point I got very lost in alsa and pulseaudio configs :wink:

Any ideas what the problem could be or pointers where to read? I think it would be worth to figure this out as homeassistant announced working on rhasspy integration is one of their priorities this year and the ultra seems to be a perfect match hardware wise.

Thanks for any help!

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#2

Hi, I bought muse for the same project! But im very lost. I run rhasspy on docker. How do you could record from the mic? I will try use nodered to send the wav file using hermes, but i need a wav file to test jejejje

#3

So if I understand correctly the Ultra is working fine using the Seed’s drivers on a normal Pi OS, but this is not working when using Rhasspy in a docker on your PI.

Is you HA also running in this docker?

We can try this next week

#4

Nice to see I am not the only one trying this.

I run home assistant on a different server. Rhasspy can be installed stand alone on a pi, I would suggest to do this first and once it is working there figure out how to use the pi as a sattelite for another server. Troubleshooting should br easier that way.

Yup the ultra is working fine but I cannot get it to work inside docker. So I suspect it is a lack of knowledge on my site, but I was not able to find a solution googling.

Thanks for the answer and it would be great if you tried it out for us.

#5

Hi we have tried to install the ULTRA on Raspberry Pi using docker and it is working fine, we have followed every steps line by line :
https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/#from-scratch-on-a-raspberry-pi

at the end select “wm8960soundcard” in Audio recording