ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array HAT Mycroft A.I. Skill

j1nx · February 1, 2020, 10:12am

???

You are loading the Matrix voice hat drivers? That is a complete different board from a complete different supplier?
https://www.matrix.one/

The 4-MIC HAT is from Seeed - ReSpeaker.

quietranger · February 1, 2020, 1:32pm

@j1nx That was the clue I needed. I don’t know why the mycroft wyzard installed that driver.

I started all over again with a spare MicroSD:

Installed Picroft
Installed drivers from https://github.com/respeaker/seeed-voicecard with card unplugged
Shutdown, plug card, reboot
Used mycroft-mic-test and it worked

I will try again a fresh install through the wizard to see if that is the problem.

Thank you a million times for the clue!

I noticed that wake word recognition on Raspberry PI 4B is a tad slower than on a 10-year old quad-core PC. Not a huge difference…just like a SatNav that tells you a little bit too late where to turn.

AutiBoy_Robotics · July 29, 2020, 8:51pm

How do I get this to work with MycroftOS?

j1nx · July 30, 2020, 6:10am

The same as with all skills not yet in the market. Either by running the command with the Mycroft CLI;

install https://github.com/j1nx/respeaker-4mic-hat-skill.git

Or exit out of the Mycroft CLI and run the following command on the normal Linux CLI;

msm install https://github.com/j1nx/respeaker-4mic-hat-skill.git

The first command will ask for confirmation (so wait for the start listening log line and/or listener beep, then type “yes”), the second doesn’t.

AutiBoy_Robotics · July 31, 2020, 11:49pm

So I tried what you said and it still is not working at all. The os I am using is Linux MycroftOS-124d4c 5.4.42-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT.

j1nx · August 2, 2020, 6:18pm

Yep, apologies for that. There is a regression with the new 5.4.51 kernel in regards to the SPI / GPIO stuff.

I am looking into it. Hopefully figure it out soon. Keep you updated.

AutiBoy_Robotics · August 7, 2020, 2:01am

Thank you for you time and this amazing skill!

nstoeckigt · May 22, 2025, 8:12pm

Hello,

I set up the ReSpeaker 4-Mic with my MyCroft some years ago…

I changed to OVOS (raspOVOS 6.12.25+rpt-rpi-v8) but there seems to be no driver (seeed-4mic-voicecard) - the old version fails due to “obsolete symbols such as asoc_simple_dai, asoc_rtd_to_cpu, asoc_rtd_to_codec have been replaced by current snd_soc_* variants.” So it is incompatible with newer kernels…

A simple dtoverlay=seeed-4mic-voicecard in /boot/firmware/config.txt doen’t do the trick either.

Is anyone out there who successfully set up OVOS with ReSpeaker 4-Mic though?

I am grateful for any help!