I’m running Home Assistant (OS 17.2) as a VM on Proxmox 9.1.1 (Hardware: Intel N100, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD). I am using Whisper (3.1.0) and openWakeWord for voice control.
The issue is that the microphone input isn’t working for ‘Assist’. It seems my local PC’s microphone is being used instead of the hardware connected to the N100 host.
How can I properly pass through a USB microphone to the HA VM and ensure it’s used for the wake word trigger?
stage: wake_word
run:
pipeline: 01kptkq4x6am5m1e611ftqvvpr
language: he
conversation_id: 01KPV1PNCMFT1Y3MANKGXW5GKA
satellite_id: assist_satellite.assist_microphone
tts_output:
token: RQOoU0uGQeZw6zXElpADQw.wav
url: /api/tts_proxy/RQOoU0uGQeZw6zXElpADQw.wav
mime_type: audio/x-wav
stream_response: false
events:
- type: run-start
data:
pipeline: 01kptkq4x6am5m1e611ftqvvpr
language: he
conversation_id: 01KPV1PNCMFT1Y3MANKGXW5GKA
satellite_id: assist_satellite.assist_microphone
tts_output:
token: RQOoU0uGQeZw6zXElpADQw.wav
url: /api/tts_proxy/RQOoU0uGQeZw6zXElpADQw.wav
mime_type: audio/x-wav
stream_response: false
timestamp: "2026-04-23T02:58:02.209897+00:00"
- type: wake_word-start
data:
entity_id: wake_word.openwakeword
metadata:
format: wav
codec: pcm
bit_rate: 16
sample_rate: 16000
channel: 1
timeout: 0
timestamp: "2026-04-23T02:58:02.209963+00:00"
started: 2026-04-23T02:58:02.209Z
wake_word:
entity_id: wake_word.openwakeword
metadata:
format: wav
codec: pcm
bit_rate: 16
sample_rate: 16000
channel: 1
timeout: 0
done: false
[19:32:13] INFO: e[32mSuccessfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.e[0m
s6-rc: info: service discovery successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service discovery: stopping
s6-rc: info: service discovery successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service whisper: stopping
[05:59:38] INFO: e[32mService exited with code 256 (by signal 15)e[0m
s6-rc: info: service whisper successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully stopped
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
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service whisper: starting
s6-rc: info: service whisper successfully started
s6-rc: info: service discovery: starting
e[0;93m2026-04-23 05:59:45.281579588 [W:onnxruntime:Default, device_discovery.cc:164 DiscoverDevicesForPlatform] GPU device discovery failed: device_discovery.cc:89 ReadFileContents Failed to open file: "/sys/class/drm/card0/device/vendor"e[m
INFO:__main__:Ready
[05:59:47] INFO: e[32mSuccessfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.e[0m
s6-rc: info: service discovery successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
[18:52:53] INFO: e[32mService exited with code 256 (by signal 15)e[0m
s6-rc: info: service openwakeword successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully stopped
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
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service openwakeword: starting
s6-rc: info: service openwakeword successfully started
s6-rc: info: service discovery: starting
INFO:root:Ready
[18:58:10] INFO: e[32mSuccessfully sent discovery information to Home Assistant.e[0m
s6-rc: info: service discovery successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service discovery: stopping
s6-rc: info: service discovery successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service openwakeword: stopping
[05:57:50] INFO: e[32mService exited with code 256 (by signal 15)e[0m
s6-rc: info: service openwakeword successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully stopped
[05:57:54] INFO: e[32mSuccessfully sent discovery information to Home Assistant.e[0m