Wyoming Satellite

I have tried about everything I know stop my Wyoming Satellites from switching from idle to listening at random in a silent room. I have tried modifying the wake-refractory-seconds command as well as setting adding the threshold statement. The result is the same whether I use a seeed 2mic hat on Pi2, or bypass it completely using pulse audio with a USB mic and the Pi4 3.5mm line output.

It drives my wife crazy, especially if I am using an AI voice pipeline. ( I have a VPE arriving Monday that will replace my living room wyoming-satellite and appease her).

If someone has else has had this issue I would love to know if it has been solved, or you just live with it.

Thanks,

I think the quality of the wake word is what affects this problem the most. Which word do you use?

Thanks for your feedback.

Not sure the quality of the wakeword matters since the state changes to listening in a silent room. Essentially these are false positives in a silent environment. My wake words were created using the routine posted on Colab [wake word training environment. (Google Colab).
The words themselves respond well.

Try to choose the standard model “ok_nabu” and evaluate the stability of the work.
If the false positives disappear, then it’s all about your model.

I had the same behavior with ok_nabu as well. Perhaps calling them false positives is a misnomer. The devices state changed to listening randomly in a totally silent environment.

However, I believe I may have solved it today. I read about WiFi dropout challenges some have with TP-Link access points, which is what I use. So I re-provisioned a Pi3 today using sayam93’s published instruction that includes using Pulse Audio and Snapcast. I added a Unifi AP-AC-Pro access point to my network and put the newly provisioned Pi3 on it; the
Pi3 has been rock solid for ~10 hours. It leads me to believe that perhaps that connection error reconnects were/are in some way triggering the listening state. In any event the device is working great with Unifi.

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