Assist microphone does not work with USB conference device

[bithajcsar]

Describe the issue you are experiencing

Although everything seems to be set up correctly, the speakerphone does not react to the wake word. The Wyoming device log also not showing any activity.

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Which operating system are you running on?

Home Assistant Operating System

Which add-on are you reporting an issue with?

Whisper

What is the version of the add-on?

Assist Microphone 1.2.0; Whisper 2.4.0

Steps to reproduce the issue

1.Intall "Assist Microphone" add-on
2.Plug in the speakerphone (Y11 - Chinese one proved to work with other systems)
3.Set up the discovered Assist device
...

System Health information

System Information

version	core-2025.1.0
installation_type	Home Assistant OS
dev	false
hassio	true
docker	true
user	root
virtualenv	false
python_version	3.13.1
os_name	Linux
os_version	6.6.62-haos-raspi
arch	aarch64
timezone	Europe/Budapest
config_dir	/config

Home Assistant Community Store

GitHub API	ok
GitHub Content	ok
GitHub Web	ok
HACS Data	ok
GitHub API Calls Remaining	5000
Installed Version	2.0.1
Stage	running
Available Repositories	1550
Downloaded Repositories	23

Home Assistant Cloud

logged_in	true
subscription_expiration	2025. február 25. 01:00
relayer_connected	true
relayer_region	eu-central-1
remote_enabled	false
remote_connected	false
alexa_enabled	false
google_enabled	false
cloud_ice_servers_enabled	true
remote_server	eu-central-1-16.ui.nabu.casa
certificate_status	ready
instance_id	fa508cf941c24a45a7f83e8dcc876b53
can_reach_cert_server	ok
can_reach_cloud_auth	ok
can_reach_cloud	ok

Home Assistant Supervisor

host_os	Home Assistant OS 14.1
update_channel	stable
supervisor_version	supervisor-2024.12.3
agent_version	1.6.0
docker_version	27.2.0
disk_total	116.7 GB
disk_used	25.0 GB
healthy	true
supported	true
host_connectivity	true
supervisor_connectivity	true
ntp_synchronized	true
virtualization
board	rpi4-64
supervisor_api	ok
version_api	ok
installed_addons	Samba share (12.3.2), Studio Code Server (5.18.0), Terminal & SSH (9.16.0), Grafana (10.2.2), InfluxDB (5.0.1), Let's Encrypt (5.2.10), Mosquitto broker (6.4.1), Piper (1.5.2), openWakeWord (1.10.0), ESPHome Device Builder (2024.12.2), Whisper (2.4.0), go2rtc (1.9.8), Assist Microphone (1.2.0)

Dashboards

dashboards	3
resources	13
views	21
mode	storage

Recorder

oldest_recorder_run	2024. december 20. 20:47
current_recorder_run	2025. január 3. 21:15
estimated_db_size	5108.99 MiB
database_engine	sqlite
database_version	3.47.1

Sonoff

version	3.8.1 (ffa7e22)
cloud_online	3 / 3
local_online	0 / 0

Spotify

api_endpoint_reachable	ok

Xiaomi Miot Auto

component_version	1.0.8
can_reach_server	ok
can_reach_spec	ok
logged_accounts	1
total_devices	13

Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Anything in the add-on logs that might be useful for us?

Log messages in the log of the "Assist Microphone" add-on


WARNING:root:Did not receive ping response within timeout
DEBUG:root:Server disconnected
INFO:root:Disconnected from server
ERROR:asyncio:Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished name='wyoming event handler' coro=<AsyncEventHandler.run() done, defined at /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/wyoming/server.py:31> exception=ConnectionResetError(104, 'Connection reset by peer')>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/wyoming/server.py", line 37, in run
    event = await async_read_event(self.reader)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/wyoming/event.py", line 79, in async_read_event
    json_line = await reader.readline()
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/asyncio/streams.py", line 545, in readline
    line = await self.readuntil(sep)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/asyncio/streams.py", line 637, in readuntil
    await self._wait_for_data('readuntil')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/asyncio/streams.py", line 522, in _wait_for_data
    await self._waiter
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 995, in _read_ready__data_received
    data = self._sock.recv(self.max_size)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ConnectionResetError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
DEBUG:root:Server set: 6568423413386
INFO:root:Connected to server
INFO:root:Streaming audio
DEBUG:root:Event(type='run-pipeline', data={'start_stage': 'wake', 'end_stage': 'tts', 'restart_on_end': True, 'snd_format': {'rate': 16000, 'width': 2, 'channels': 1}}, payload=None)
DEBUG:root:Ping enabled

Additional information

No response

[bithajcsar]

[core-ssh ~]$ ha audio info
audio:
application:

• addon: core_assist_microphone
  index: 5
  mute: false
  name: ALSA plug-in [aplay]
  stream_index: 1
  stream_type: input
  volume: 1
  card:
• driver: module-alsa-card.c
  index: 0
  name: alsa_card.usb-MV-SILICON_Y11_20220111-00
  profiles:
  • active: false
    description: Analog Stereo Input
    name: input:analog-stereo
  • active: false
    description: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input
    name: input:iec958-stereo
  • active: false
    description: Analog Stereo Output
    name: output:analog-stereo
  • active: true
    description: Analog Stereo Duplex
    name: output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
  • active: false
    description: Analog Stereo Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input
    name: output:analog-stereo+input:iec958-stereo
  • active: false
    description: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output
    name: output:iec958-stereo
  • active: false
    description: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input
    name: output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo
  • active: false
    description: Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958)
    name: output:iec958-stereo+input:iec958-stereo
  • active: false
    description: "Off"
    name: "off"
• driver: module-alsa-card.c
  index: 1
  name: alsa_card.platform-bcm2835_audio
  profiles:
  • active: true
    description: Stereo Output
    name: output:stereo-fallback
  • active: false
    description: "Off"
    name: "off"
    input:
• applications:
  • addon: core_assist_microphone
    index: 5
    mute: false
    name: ALSA plug-in [aplay]
    stream_index: 1
    stream_type: input
    volume: 1
    card: 0
    default: true
    description: Y11 Analog Stereo
    index: 1
    mute: false
    name: alsa_input.usb-MV-SILICON_Y11_20220111-00.analog-stereo
    volume: 0.541168212890625
    output:
• applications: []
  card: 0
  default: false
  description: Y11 Analog Stereo
  index: 0
  mute: false
  name: alsa_output.usb-MV-SILICON_Y11_20220111-00.analog-stereo
  volume: 0.541168212890625
• applications: []
  card: 1
  default: true
  description: Built-in Audio Stereo
  index: 1
  mute: false
  name: alsa_output.platform-bcm2835_audio.stereo-fallback
  volume: 0.857696533203125
  host: 172.30.32.4
  update_available: false
  version: 2023.12.0
  version_latest: 2023.12.0

[bithajcsar]

It seems that the problem is deeper, in the sound subsystem. The "ha audio log" shows:

s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
cont-init: info: running /etc/cont-init.d/filesystem.sh
cont-init: info: /etc/cont-init.d/filesystem.sh exited 0
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service alsa: starting
s6-rc: info: service alsa successfully started
s6-rc: info: service alsa-init: starting
[21:23:36] INFO: Adjust ALSA mixer settings for /dev/snd/controlC0
[21:23:38] INFO: Adjust ALSA mixer settings for /dev/snd/controlC1
s6-rc: info: service alsa-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service pulseaudio: starting
W: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set.
W: [pulseaudio] main.c: Home directory of user 'root' is not '/var/run/pulse', ignoring.
W: [pulseaudio] caps.c: Normally all extra capabilities would be dropped now, but that's impossible because PulseAudio was built without capabilities support.
W: [pulseaudio] main.c: OK, so you are running PA in system mode. Please make sure that you actually do want to do that.
W: [pulseaudio] main.c: Please read http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide/ for an explanation why system mode is usually a bad idea.
W: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Failed to open /proc/asound/card1: No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Failed to open /proc/asound/card0: No such file or directory
s6-rc: info: service pulseaudio successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started