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Last active June 16, 2017 22:24
AlexaPi Troubleshooting

Setting up your devices

If you want to change your playback / recording device (also because the default setting doesn't work for you), you can do that in the configuration file. If you installed into /opt as recommended, it is /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml. If you installed elsewhere, the file config.yaml is in your AlexaPi/src directory.

You may need to adjust the volume and/or input gain for the microphone, you can do this with alsamixer. Once the adjustments have been made, you can save the settings using alsactl store.

Checking if your system audio works

  1. To test playback, run aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
  2. To rest recording, run