Support for wyoming-satellite possible?

[hillbicks]

Hey there,

after a longer hiatus, I finally had time to look at the project again. Lo and behold, I was also able to revive an LX06 that I initially bricked (can't remember how exactly). But the flashing via USB cable is so comfortable and easy, big thanks to @duhow

I was looking at the voice satellite functionality from home assistant and was wondering if it is feasible to use the wyoming satellite instead of porcupine. Correct me if I'm wrong, but porcupine just uses the home assistant API to send and receive the data. The Wyoming satellite integration on the other hand could make use of complete assist functionality in homeassistant.

Two features that would be nice to have: broadcast and timer. I could build around it with custom sentences, but why not use whats officially supported if it possible? I couldn't find any mention of wyoming in this repo before...

https://github.com/rhasspy/wyoming-satellite

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wyoming

I have yet to setup a dev environment to try it myself, thought I ask here before I try it myself.

Looking forward to any insight.

[duhow]

Hi there! The idea in fact is to add the speaker as voice_satellite to Home Assistant through a custom_integration (to be developed yet) and interact via HTTP or MQTT.
The problem with wyoming-satellite is that zeroconf alone uses 26MB because of prebuilt libraries included.
Even with other wyoming options such as microWakeWord, the dependencies are so large that won't fit in the system rootfs.

Anyway, if you find yourself creative and find any workaround for this, feel free to share any PRs :)

[hillbicks]

I see....

26MB seems a bit much to make it fit on the partition of these.

I was just researching other devices using wyoming satellite and came across this thread:

rhasspy/wyoming-satellite#142

Apparently we just need to compile wyoming satellite and add it via ip adress through home assistant, no need for zeroconf. Makes sense when you think about, most integrations allow a connection from home assistant to the client when adding the integration.

Time to setup the environment again I guess 😁

[danielk117]

Hi,

it it possible.

This whole thing is a feew months old, so I don't know if it is still running. I don't running the LX06 speakers in productive, as the quality of STT (I tried nearly everything) was to bad or takes too long, during my last tests.

I'm running the following script on my mac. Any linux should be fine, too.

It pulls the github project, install deps using pip und removes some stuff, which is not needed. I also remove all *.so files. Last step is creating a tar.gz and copy it to target using scp.

#!/bin/sh

rm -rf wyoming-satellite-master

curl -L https://codeload.github.com/rhasspy/wyoming-satellite/tar.gz/refs/heads/master | tar -xvf -

cd wyoming-satellite-master

pip3 install -r requirements.txt --no-compile -t .

rm -rvf .github
rm -rvf etc
rm -rvf docker
rm -rvf docs
rm -rvf examples
rm -rvf tests
rm -rvf *.dist-info
rm -rvf **/*.so

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete

cp -v ../sounds/* sounds/

tar -cvzf ../wyoming.tar.gz *

scp ../wyoming.tar.gz lx06-xxxx:/tmp

On my speaker I untar wyoming.tar.gz to /data/satellite. In the same folder I've got a launcher script: https://github.com/danielk117/xiaoai-patch/blob/main/packages/satellite/config/launcher

The launcher it executed by this init.d: https://github.com/danielk117/xiaoai-patch/blob/main/packages/satellite/config/satellite.init

My package contains zeroconf, but I'm not using it (--no-zeroconf in launcher), because there is already running some zeroconf on the speaker (I can't remember now in which service it was). So maybe it could be removed too.

I hope this helps you 😉

[danielk117]

Just saw I need to explain the --mic-command in my launcher. You could simply use arecord -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 16000 -t raw for --mic-command or a bash script.

My script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

arecord -D mic_downmix -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 16000 -t raw | aec_cmdline

I'm using aec_cmdline (already included in xiaoai-patch) to filter the (music) output from the mic input. Really helpful if you listen to music and want your speaker listen to your commands, too.

@duhow Your repo is missing https://github.com/danielk117/xiaoai-patch/blob/main/patches/lx06/26_alsa_mono_mic.patch, which creates the mic_downmix device needed for aec_cmdline.

[hillbicks]

Thanks for the help and information, I really appreciate it. Will have a look in the coming days.