Re: Error alexa-voiceagent-service unable to start #voiceagents #koi

["Scott Murray" <scott.murray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, Scott Murray via lists.automotivelinux.org wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, Francesco ARGENTIERI (KINETON) wrote:
>
> > Hi  Jan-Simon,
> > I followed your instructions.
> >
> > - Now the file Alexa is correctly in `/etc/xdg/AGL/AlexaAutoCoreEngineConfig.json`
> > - The fields required by AlexaAutoCoreEngineConfig.json are correctly filled.
> >
> > The service continues fails to start:
> [snip]
> > Aug 24 16:34:13 h3ulcb afbd-alexa-voiceagent-service[1141]: 2021-08-24 14:34:13.323 [AAC] E aace.systemAudio.AudioInputImpl:initialize:reason=createRecorderFailed
> > Aug 24 16:34:13 h3ulcb afbd-alexa-voiceagent-service[1141]: 2021-08-24 14:34:13.323 [AAC] E aace.systemAudio.AudioInputImpl:create:reason=initializeFailed
> > Aug 24 16:34:13 h3ulcb afbd-alexa-voiceagent-service[1141]: 2021-08-24 14:34:13.323 [AAC] E aace.audio.AudioInputProviderEngineImpl:openChannel:reason=invalidPlatformAudioInput
> > Aug 24 16:34:13 h3ulcb afbd-alexa-voiceagent-service[1141]: 2021-08-24 14:34:13.323 [AAC] E aace.audio.AudioEngineService:openAudioInputChannel:reason=openAudioInputChannelFailed
> > Aug 24 16:34:13 h3ulcb afbd-alexa-voiceagent-service[1141]: 2021-08-24 14:34:13.323 [AAC] E aace.alexa.SpeechRecognizerEngineImpl:initialize:reason=invalidAudioInputChannel
> > Aug 24 16:34:13 h3ulcb afbd-alexa-voiceagent-service[1141]: 2021-08-24 14:34:13.323 [AAC] E aace.alexa.SpeechRecognizerEngineImpl:create:reason=initializeSpeechRecognizerEngineImplFailed
> > Aug 24 16:34:13 h3ulcb afbd-alexa-voiceagent-service[1141]: 2021-08-24 14:34:13.323 [AAC] E aace.alexa.AlexaEngineService:registerPlatformInterfaceType<SpeechRecognizer>:reason=createSpeechRecognizerEngineImplFailed
>
> Given these messages, it looks like something is unhappy in the audio
> plugin.  We don't test Alexa regularly, especially since Amazon dropped
> AGL support, so it's possible one of the PipeWire upgrades earlier in the
> year broke it.  One thing cames to mind wrt the gstreamer sink/source
> modules that might have been missed.  I can do a build and take a look,
> if it's something obvious like that it might be an easy fix.

Patching aac-module-system-audio to update the gstreamer source/sink
names (from pwaudio* to the new pipewire*) does get past this problem,
but it's failing to see input when triggered AFAICT.  I'll try to debug
that today, but I might need to ask for assistance from the PipeWire
folks.

Scott



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