voice is not responding issue

[vital delta]

when i say the wake word it makes the sound and nothing happens it doesn't light up if it is suppose to i can play music on it. there is nothing in the assistant debug logs i am some what familiar with home assistant

[signal belfry]

do you have a standard network setup or something special (e.g. VLANS)?

[vital delta]

all one network

[signal belfry]

what type of install are you running?

[vital delta]

pi 4

[signal belfry]

home assistant OS? or a container install on another os?

[vital delta]

home assistant OS

[signal belfry]

under settings-system-network. there is a section for "Home Assistant URL" is the local network URL set to automatic?

[vital delta]

yes

[signal belfry]

ok then the best next step is to plug the device into your pc and manually flash the firmware on the VPE using THIS tool as per THESE instructions.

after flashing and entering wifi creds on the tool you can try again. if the same issue occurs then we can look at monitoring the device logs through another tool to see if we can get a hint as to the problem.

[signal belfry]

oh also, ensure that your home assistant is up to date? can you check what version you are running?

[vital delta]

Installation method Home Assistant OS
Core 2025.12.4
Supervisor 2025.12.3
Operating System 16.3
Frontend 20251203.3

[signal belfry]

cool your on latest. always worth checking the small things. clean flash of firmware is indeed probably the best next step.

[vital delta]

i did the reinstall and repaired the device the setup screen was not shown and it still doesn't work

music can still be played

[signal belfry]

if you can play music to it then it is working. it just seems for some reason the onboarding wizard is having an issue

you can more manually set it up if you get a voice-pipeline set up in the voice assistant settings then on the devices page ensure that the pipeline is set as the assistant.

[vital delta]

when i first did the install i keep on getting error when it was installing the required software. it is set to home assistant

[signal belfry]

in addons are whisper/piper installed?
and if yes, is the wyoming integration connecting to them?

[vital delta]

they are both installed and whisper is not showing in wyoming

[signal belfry]

is the whisper addon actually running? can you check its log to see if any errors there?

[vital delta]

it is running but the logs are [11:23:18] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:23:57] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:24:35] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:25:15] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:25:53] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:26:30] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:27:08] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:27:46] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:28:24] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:29:03] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:29:41] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:30:18] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:30:55] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:31:35] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:32:13] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:32:53] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)
[11:33:32] INFO: Service exited with code 256 (by signal 9)

[signal belfry]

are you running a bunch of other addons?
could you try a full hardware restart of your RPI and see if it comes up correctly then?

[vital delta]

i have 4 addons runing and i will restart

[signal belfry]

anything major? I am thinking a ram limitation issue you see. how much ram does your rpi have?

[vital delta]

i have 2 gb

i feel like that might be the issue

[signal belfry]

It could be. 2GB is considered the bare minimum these days. with 4GB being generally recommended.

whisper is pretty heavy in most circumstances to be fair.

[vital delta]

i can swap with one of my other pi's i miss label this one as 4

[signal belfry]

you could try using speech to phrase instead and setting the pipeline to use that instead.

or using an external service to do STT.

[vital delta]

i have to go but i will swap it when i get back

[vital delta]

i got the new pi working and it still doesn't work i looked at the logs for the pe here they are
[D][file_media_source:168]: Started decode task for pipeline 1
[D][file_media_source:177]: Pipeline 1 starting
[D][file_media_source:182]: Pipeline 1 running
[D][file_media_source:328][FileDecode_1]: Pipeline 1 got stream info from decoder
[D][file_media_source:343][FileDecode_1]: Pipeline 1: Bits per sample: 16, Channels: 1, Sample rate: 48000
[D][file_media_source:359][FileDecode_1]: Pipeline 1: Successfully added callback sink to decoder
[15:27:51][D][speaker_source_media_player:367]: State changed to ANNOUNCING
[D][ring_buffer:034]: Created ring buffer with size 9600
[D][speaker_mixer:423]: Starting speaker mixer
[D][speaker_mixer:431]: Started speaker mixer
][D][i2s_audio.speaker:102]: Starting
[11][D][i2s_audio.speaker:106]: Started
[11][D][ring_buffer:034][speaker_task]: Created ring buffer with size 19200
[11][D][voice_assistant:478]: State changed from IDLE to START_MICROPHONE
[151][D][voice_assistant:485]: Desired state set to START_PIPELINE
[D][voice_assistant:207]: Starting Microphone
[D][ring_buffer:034]: Created ring buffer with size 16384
[D][voice_assistant:478]: State changed from START_MICROPHONE to STARTING_MICROPHONE
[15:27:51][D][voice_assistant:478]: State changed from STARTING_MICROPHONE to START_PIPELINE
[15:27:51][D][voice_assistant:228]: Requesting start
[D][voice_assistant:478]: State changed from START_PIPELINE to STARTING_PIPELINE
[D][voice_assistant:500]: Client started, streaming microphone
[D][voice_assistant:478]: State changed from STARTING_PIPELINE to STREAMING_MICROPHONE
[15:27:51][D][voice_assistant:485]: Desired state set to STREAMING_MICROPHONE
[D][file_media_source:188]: Pipeline 1 stopping
[D][file_media_source:193]: Pipeline 1 stopped
D][file_media_source:320][FileDecode_1]: Pipeline 1 decoding [D][speaker_source_media_player:367]: State changed to IDLE
[D][speaker_mixer:436]: Stopping speaker mixer

and whisper runs now

[signal belfry]

On HA: In settings-voiceassistants-YOURPIPELINE check that the pipeline assigned tot he device has everything set correctly to use whisper/pipe

[vital delta]

ok it works now but i don't hear the response

[signal belfry]

what does the device log look like now when doing this?

[vital delta]

a reboot fix it now it fully works