Aiyprojects-raspbian: voiceHAT not working

[vipersgratitude]

I bought the MagPi with the AIY voice kit months ago and completely forgot about it. I tried to set it up today but I'm having zero luck.

I installed the latest image and all I get is "Failed to find the voiceHAT soundcard"
I followed the instructions in Hacking.md, but the problem persists.
arecord --list-devices returns "no soundcards found..."

Any ideas?

[PeterMalkin]

Can you check to see if your config.txt has the driver overlay enabled for
the soundcard?

On Dec 26, 2017 07:04, "vipersgratitude" [e-mail] wrote:

I bought the MagPi with the AIY voice kit months ago and completely forgot
about it. I tried to set it up today but I'm having zero luck.

I installed the latest image and all I get is "Failed to find the voiceHAT
soundcard"
I followed the instructions in Hacking.md, but the problem persists.
arecord --list-devices returns "no soundcards found..."

Any ideas?

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[vipersgratitude]

Ahhh...what lines need to be enabled?

[sheridat]

try adding these 2 to /boot/config.txt

dtoverlay=i2s-mmap
dtoverlay=googlevoicehat-soundcard

[drigz]

@vipersgratitude did you make any progress? I'd recommend trying with the official image as there's less room for error.

[Fleker]

I also saw this issue. Are you using the most recent image (12/18)

I checked my /boot/config.txt and found a few things commented out . After I enabled

dtoverlay=i2s-mmap
dtoverlay=googlevoicehat-soundcard

and rebooted, it appeared to work.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpigooglevoi [snd_rpi_googlevoicehat_soundcar], device 0: Google voiceHAT SoundCard HiFi voicehat-hifi-0 []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpigooglevoi [snd_rpi_googlevoicehat_soundcar], device 0: Google voiceHAT SoundCard HiFi voicehat-hifi-0 []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[vipersgratitude]

Sorry for the late reply, guys. Yes, I got it to work. It was just a matter of editing the config file.

The image I used was freshly downloaded, so I assumed everything was set up to work in tandem with the magazine's instructions. That's why, when I ran in to the error, my brain skipped the obvious and went straight to wondering if it was a hardware problem...or something.

[drigz]

Good to hear it. We try to make sure the magazine instructions continue to work, but 2017-12-18 image was missing something. We've fixed that in the 2018-01-03 image: the Check Audio script will make this change automatically.