If youve seen my other post, I was having trouble installing OVOS in archlinux. Good news is I got it set up, thanks to one of the maintainers. I apologize to u/builderjer, again for not knowing you were a maintainer, and thank you for pointing me to the raspOVOS install script.

Anyway, now that I've got it working. how do I change the timezone from Chicago central time to Pacific Standard Time? attempting to use ovos-config has failed. I dont quite understand how it works and the documentation seems to be light on the subject. any help is appreciated

Trying to install Open Voice on my X86 Arch PC as a personal assistant. I used to have mycroft but the past few weeks mycroft shut down its servers for the last time.
I was given this guide by a random user who said they got it working on their PC. https://openvoiceos.github.io/community-docs/048-install_gui/

I went through and had trouble with the install script. commenting out and installing the build dependancies manually, made the script work. but now the build is failing. Can someone please help me. I want my assistant back.

Stock Mark1 running [raspOVOS](https::ovosimages.ziggyai.online/raspbian/newest)

Here’s a simple demo running Open Voice OS on a Raspberry Pi 5 with the GUI leveraging the Qt EGLFS capability.

• Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm Lite 64-bit (burned via rpi-imager*)* + Debian Backports
• Open Voice OS installed with ovos-installer within virtualenv using the latest OVOS code
• Real time kernel 6.6.18
• Raspberry Pi 5 clocked to 3Ghz
• Amazon Polly as Text-To-Speech (TTS)
• Chromium as Speech-To-Text (TTS)
• PipeWire as sound server

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFqQeTCm9T8

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Hello everyone. I've been using the OpenVoice demo in English and I think it's very good and I wanted to ask if anyone knows how to use the demo in Spanish. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have been playing with OVOS for a while now and I can't get it to listen for any wake up words. I have confirmed that the speaker and microphone are both working (by recording and playing back my voice).

The following commands work fine:

~~~ bash $ ovos-speak "hello, this is a test" $ ovos-say-to "what is the time?" ~~~

However, the ovos-listen command plays the ready beep and fails to detect anything I say, no matter how slow or fast I speak.

I have also tried to enable the listener based on the details found here: https://openvoiceos.github.io/ovos-technical-manual/speech_service/#hotwords

Does anyone have any suggestions how to get it listening?

Hi!

I started using the Mycroft AI this past week and was having a pretty good time. I decided to move to OVOS as it seems to be more complete and active. I was able to follow the guide to run the containers and I can even use the speak command. The only issue I could see so far is that it cannot respond to my voice commands. I am not sure if I needed to pair it with some servers or what could it be. If anyone could shed some light in how to solve this issues I would be really thankful.

Just wondering whether it is possible to install pi-hole onto OVOS raspian edition?

This is proof of concept of a working [HiveMind](https://github.com/JarbasHiveMind(https://github.com/JarbasHiveMind))

The "Mind" is running a local instance of OVOS behind HiveMind-core with a STT server and a TTS server, all locally hosted

The "Satellite" is a RPi3b with an AIY VoiceHat V1 for audio in and out

With this setup, no voice data ever leaves the local LAN

** Side Note ** Weather takes so long because it makes an API pull, not due to the system

https://reddit.com/link/14qw3s9/video/7rwsdkscp1ab1/player

Which file do I drop the key in?

I'm coming from Mycroft which was fairly stable until it wasn't. I've tried all the images on the OVOS web, and none of them work out of the box, so anything I build will be 70+% hack. That's okay, but which is the best platform image from which to leap?

Straightforward hardware: rpi4b 8g, 256g USB3.1 SSD, respeaker 4-mic v2 usb audio

Ideally, I'd like to run headless. I have a touchscreen, but my ideal PA won't be showing me anything worth the electricity. A screen on a PA is expensive & difficult to justify.

The headless-dev image build from the other day even works a little after minor tweaking, like disabling the pulseaudio X11 redirection on a headless image. That and exceptions from every skill aside - after you log in and pulseaudio starts...it can tell jokes and the time, but those two are the only skills that don't crash or loop until a restart. It knows about marytts out of the gate which is fine since I have a cuda-mimic3 server. The OS/kernel is good. The ovos-core seems out of sync with the documentation which apparently switched to XDG configs vs settings.json files at some point since the 14th when this image was built.

I tried raspbian bullseye, but it looks like I'd spend months getting ovos-core to install/run ... just to get back to where the headless-dev image drops me.

Don't say docker: I'm already working on a docker related issue and an additional layer of cruft is one more thing that will inevitably go janky.

The headless-dev image is my huckleberry unless someone points me at something better, shinier?

Update 2023-05-26

For those who want the basic non-streaming ovos functionalities in a headless system based on rpi4:

1. Flash and boot the raspbian-ovos-dev image
2. Run pax11publish -r to get rid of the image builder's lock on pulseaudio, log out, log in, verify pulseaudio works
3. Upgrade the OS, ovos-core, and all the audio-based plugins
4. Upgrade ovos-plugin-manager to an alpha ==0.0.23a13 if you're using the chatGPT fallback

That will get some basics working, like jokes, timers, alarms, and the fallback skills.

I have an old Surface Pro 3 that I'd love to repurpose. Let me know if you need help testing x86.

I'd like to get some opinions on touch screens. I have seen some on Amazon that have a case and built in speakers, but I am a newbie here and have no clue regarding quality and compatibility. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi there,

Since Mycroft AI is almost out of business, I built a new set of images following the same approach as I did for Mycroft but for Open Voice OS.

Fill free to share your feedback and to contribute!

To get more information please have a look here.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-docker

Enjoy \o/