I just got a Pi4 and were thinking on trying this with Mycroft. First look into making a Picroft image based on Bustner and not Stretch, and then looking into getting the Google Hoicekit working on that.
Glad I am not strating from scratch and that you have something cooking alreddy :)

I didnt have any trouble or issuet setting up the AIY on picroft on bustner...Well the asound.conf were missing and thre were some errors durring install, but after it booted it worked….
So I lookinto the errors and hopefull soon gets a image that should install picroft and the AIY.

well some troubles…..The audioservice hangs after a short while. Have to investegate. It did that on the stretch to in "old days" but cant remember what were the issue.

Solved the problem ith audioservice hanging just by updating raspbian.

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade

So my picroft image based on bustner is working fine with the voicekit (v1)

Hi @andlo, great! I was having that issue too, so glad to see an upgrade fixed it. I'll try that when I get a chance to tinker.

Try the latest https://mycroft.ai/to/picroft-unstable image. I think the setup is clean now and works with Pi 3/3+/4 and with the AIY hardware.

It seems that some of the common issues encountered with the AIY installation have been addressed in a new release of AIY Projects as per google/aiyprojects-raspbian#643

I just heard from a user that they needed to install @andlo's AIY Hat Skill or else any speech from the device would be cut off after a few seconds. Is that other people's experience currently?

I was experiencing that when I first opened this issue. The Pi I was using has since been repurposed, so I can't speak to current function. It might be related to the audio service hang described by @andlo, above.

I just tried installing raspbian-buster_Picroft_2019-11-10 (Stable 19.8.5) and it has the problem referenced by ServError (google/aiyprojects-raspbian#643): aiy-dkms won't build on later Linux kernel. Seems the problem might be solved in aiyprojects but hasn't found its way into the Picroft image. BTW, the unstable image as at Dec 28 is the same as the stable one so no point trying that at present!

It's pretty straightforward to manually use the new repo until the fix makes its way in. Flash the image, boot it up in your Pi and either connect ethernet or use the wizard to set up wifi, then connect over SSH (or if you really want, do this over nano on the pi), and modify auto_run.sh.

Enable the code to install aiy-python-wheels ( by uncommenting it (removing the #) around line 342

Near line 332 should be the existing code to add the google AIY packages and add the apt key. Replace those two lines with these 3.

echo "deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt aiyprojects-stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aiyprojects.list

curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update # this one may be unnecessary

and save it and reboot the board. Once you're up and running, finish the wizard and then manually install the Google AIY kit skill if necessary. Everything should work.

@andlo I see the new repo has made its way in to the build via your commit. Could you re-enable aiy-python-wheels as well since it's been fixed and can close out this issue?

@ServError I will do that as soon I can. You could however also if you like make a PR your self. It is always exciting to make PR's to a project. One of my first PR's were actualy adding support for AIY on this project.

@andlo hah, fair enough, I figured a one line change wasn't worth a PR, but I'll put it in.

I am closing this issue as it has been a long time since I wrote it and I think that all of the issues / tips in this issue are ancient history. The only exception is that I still seem to require the workaround to use pulseaudio TCP on localhost in order to have sound from raspotify. Is anyone else using raspotify in picroft and have a better solution? @forslund maybe?