# Can't see any mic level
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/cant-see-any-mic-level/9592
**Category:** Picroft
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/cant-see-any-mic-level/9592 "2020-10-12T22:39:21Z")
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### Author:  [@fastfourier](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/fastfourier)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/cant-see-any-mic-level/9592/1 "2020-10-12T22:39:21Z")
Hi all,
Using the headphone jack and a cheapo USB soundcard mic input on a Pi 3B.
Levels of both have been set with alsamixer.
I set the default input/output with pactl and checked the setup with
mycroft-start audiotest -l
both record and playback work fine.
When using mycroft-cli, I can’t see anything under “Mic Level”.
I can hear the responses though, if I type questions.
Any ideas?
thanks!
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### Author:  [@baconator](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/baconator)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/cant-see-any-mic-level/9592/2 "2020-10-13T01:41:48Z")
Does it hear you if you ask questions via voice?
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### Author:  [@fastfourier](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/fastfourier)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/cant-see-any-mic-level/9592/3 "2020-10-13T02:14:04Z")
No response via voice.
I have followed all the steps [here](https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/troubleshooting/audio-troubleshooting) and I can successfully record and play audio with the testing steps. It just doesn’t seem to work in mycroft itself.