Voice PE gets stuck 'responding'

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I have 4 x Voice PEs and so far 2 of them have exhibited this behaviour.

They respond okay to voice commands and button presses, but every once in a while, probably once a day, they get stuck ‘responding’ until I restart them. Today, I left one to see how long it would stay in ‘responding’ for and after 40 minutes I restarted it. I’ve posted this in the HA Discord as an issue either with the device or, perhaps more likely, an ESP Home issue? Has anyone else experienced this behavour from their Voice PE?

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I’m currently running:

HA Core 2025.2.5
Supervisor 2025.03.3
OS 15
Frontend 20250221.0

Home Assistant Voice PE by Nabu Casa Firmware 25.3.0 (ESPHome 2025.2.0)

As an interim fix, I’ve created an automation that restarts any Voice PE that gets stuck in ‘responding’ for longer than 60s. Not ideal.

Thanks.

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Yeah seen this too.

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I’m seeing this also quite a lot the last days.

I’m on docker and use assist microphone with local LLM.

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Probably time to raise an issue then. I see absolutely nothing in any of the logs so not sure how to debug this one.

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Created one here. But I’m not sure where this belongs to actually, lets see :slight_smile:

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Seems as good a place as any. I’ve added a +1 comment to your issue.

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I’m also seeing this issue. Thanks for suggesting the routine to check for this and reset it. I’m following to see if there will be a solution.