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I have a routine that plays an audio file on the top of every hour and it worked great for the first few days but lately the audio has been lagging or stuttering. At first i thought it was because i was using an old chromebook in kiosk mode but my home assistant voice is doing the same thing with voice replies. Any idea what could be causing this? Home assistant is being ran as a vm on my hypervisor and the audio file in question is an mp3 saved locally in the media folder on home assistant.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's discuss the chromebook since that's where i want the issue addresses first. It's a chromebook with the fully kiosk app running and it displays my home assistant internal address in the web browser. Through the kiosk app it's a destination for media playback and the sound comes out of the chromebook speakers. The vm is assigned 24gb of ram and it's using 8 of that and it's using less than 1% of the 32 cpus i've assigned to it. If you're wondering, the hardware is an old dual cpu server with more resources than i could ever hope to use so i over fed most of the vms i'm running. I doubt it's a hardware issue on the server side but i'm willing to try anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What method did you use to install on this Chromebook?

Also, it's a Chromebook, so it doesn't have 32 CPUs. Maybe you mean cores, which would even be weird for a Chromebook.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The home assistant vm has 32 cores, the chromebook i'm not sure. I installed the fully kiosk app using the google play store.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Report back with the model of your Chromebook and we might be able to say what's happening. Otherwise, restart it, and see if the problem disappears.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The issue is either the chromebook or the fully kiosk app, and i'm thinking it's the app. Post reboot it won't let me play music from or to the chromebook now.