#Responses getting cut off. Sonos via 3.5mm

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wary sapphire
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Pretty much what the title says. I'm using an era 100 with the official aux to USB adapter and plugged in the back of the voice pe. However I am noticing the beginning of responses being cut off which also includes the wake chime.

I've tried rebooting etc and nothing seems to fix. Anyone else seeing this? I also noticed when trying to play music using the MA blueprint even after setting the era to the default player, it always plays on the arc and never the era. Era is exposed and also on MA. I also noticed when ever I ask assist to stop the music...it never does and keeps on going

pastel pike
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I noticed that with Piper a few days ago. I just switched to Asure (the Nabu-Casa cloud one) and it worked so didn't give it another thought, but if you are using Piper, I concur I have seen it.

wary sapphire
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Sigh is HA ever going to show love to piper again

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I hate to go cloud for this

wary sapphire
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Seems no matter the route for local you take, there is always some form of setback. Seems HA is turning in to amazon lately.

wary sapphire
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Still cuts the beginning off even with cloud

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Not sure if this is a limitation of Sonos or the pe

pastel pike
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Well if you are doing something with media player just before the tts, add a delay. I know in my casw
I wasn't so it sounded like what yoiu said, but cloud was fine.

wary sapphire
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i mean in just using the wake word, the wake sound alone gets cut off or plays half the sound.it's almost like the PE isn't sending the signal out timely through the aux.

safe inlet
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try reboot ha

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ha is open home foundation, so def not the same as the other big players

native turret
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This only happens with the Sonos right? I think it’s because there is a delay on the Era between when sound is detected and it switches to line input. If you have any “dumb” speakers or headphones, you should be able to validate this.

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Piper generally still works well. Streaming support was even recently added. I’ve switched from Whisper and Piper to a different local ONNX models that are faster though.

wary sapphire
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I also was starting to suspect that with the sonos. no dumb speaker to test. i know i can go back to forcing a mp3 file for tts media players as i was doing to before but there can be delays in overall responses there since it has to create it then send it to sonos

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I also tried messing with the delay settings within the sonos app for line in and set to the most minimum but i suspect there could be processing going on there before hand.

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Did more digging, no way to keep the line in port active all the time on the sonos. Only activates when it detects a signal..i wonder if there is a way to trick it?

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gonna suck if theres no way. i'd hate to rig a cheap speaker in to it for that ah

safe inlet
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you could use the wake-up/announce sound before speech to activate sonos

pastel pike
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Happened to me with a google home speaker.

native turret
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Maybe try making the wake sound longer so it still plays before getting cut off. That could be enough to get it active when you start speaking.

safe inlet
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the older play5 can prevent sleep, newer models mostly have a quick start option. But sonos will go to sleep after 30 minutes, talking longer to start up on line input. @native turret is right about pre-announcing sound, you can also play an empty silent .mp3 file (2-3 seconds) instead of pre-announce sound, giving sonos the time to wake up. It will take that bit longer before messages are played

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not perfect, but..