Subj : Re: aplay oddity
To   : All
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Fri Oct 24 2025 17:23:42

On 24/10/2025 13:23, Adrian wrote:
> In message <10dejui$293ep$1@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher 
> <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes
>> I had issues like this that were in the end permissions, although in 
>> this case its hard to see how this happened.
>>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> That was my initial thought, but then I couldn't see why.
> 
>> Are you running an audio hat? check its well plugged in
>>
> 
> Yes, and it is.ÿ The Pi is in a safe place, and is fastened down.ÿ Given 
> that I don't need to make physical contact with the Pi to trigger it, I 
> can't see why it would work when I've ssh'd in from another machine and 
> run the command via that terminal, but not when a background process is 
> triggered.
> 
> Adrian

What annoys me is that I had almost exactly this, but have no idea how I 
solved it.

I vaguely remember one of two things - some kind of permissions thing in 
the audio device, or needing to install pulse audio


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