Learn Robotics Programming

Getting Mycroft to talk to the sound card

Now you need to connect Mycroft and the sound card.

We need the PulseAudio service to start when the Pi starts, so to do this we will create a systemd service file for it. Press Ctrl + C to exit Mycroft so you can type commands again.

We can use the Nano editor already in the Pi to create this file with the $ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.service command.

When the editor window appears, type the following into it:

[Unit]Description=PulseAudio Service [Install]WantedBy=multi-user.target [Service]Type=simplePrivateTmp=trueExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --realtime --disallow-exit

The service file starts with Description of Unit (units can be things other than services). This is human-friendly ...