[Plugin] Hotword Plugin Free

[faranone]

halp

Hi,
I'm encountering a problem i tried to solve by myself but i can't find a working solution. I'm trying to invoke the google assistant by a personalized hotword with your plugin and Tasker, but when your plugin has microphone services activated the google assistant says "can't reach Google at the moment". Works fine if the plugin is not listening.
So i tried turning off and on the plugin while google assistant is on ( with Tasker ), but this method somehow works only the first time, then i have to manually reboot the plugin to let it function again.
Do you have any advice?
Thank you

 

[Humpie]

Hi,
I'm encountering a problem i tried to solve by myself but i can't find a working solution. I'm trying to invoke the google assistant by a personalized hotword with your plugin and Tasker, but when your plugin has microphone services activated the google assistant says "can't reach Google at the moment". Works fine if the plugin is not listening.
So i tried turning off and on the plugin while google assistant is on ( with Tasker ), but this method somehow works only the first time, then i have to manually reboot the plugin to let it function again.
Do you have any advice?
Thank you

This is exactly why I added the setting to disable hotword plugin listening in apps that require microphone access, like Google Assistant. If you enable that setting it should work fine.

 

[faranone]

This is exactly why I added the setting to disable hotword plugin listening in apps that require microphone access, like Google Assistant. If you enable that setting it should work fine.

Thank you for your answer.
Well, the first time worked and i was "wow, it was that simple!!"..
Now it doesn't work anymore. And it takes like 30 seconds to 1 minute between each hotword recognition.. :c

 

[Humpie]

Thank you for your answer.
Well, the first time worked and i was "wow, it was that simple!!"..
Now it doesn't work anymore. And it takes like 30 seconds to 1 minute between each hotword recognition.. :c

That's weird. What happens when you have the ding enabled? Do you hear the ding when you say the hotword and then it takes a minute to get to Tasker?
In that case make sure to disable all battery saving functions for Tasker.

 

[Humpie]

2.3
Fixed shortcuts from homescreen
Fixed some reported crashes!

before
You can now select more hotwords for one event
It's now possible to enable/disable hotwords as a Tasker action
Added donation option

 

[a5538544]

Thank you, the author and @trohn_javolta. It's working good even on Android TV.
I know it's not intended usage, but I have few problems I need some help.
1. Parameters(sensitivity/gain) can not be saved.
2. System sound become low while this plugin is active.

 

[Humpie]

Thank you, the author and @trohn_javolta. It's working good even on Android TV.
I know it's not intended usage, but I have few problems I need some help.
1. Parameters(sensitivity/gain) can not be saved.
2. System sound become low while this plugin is active.

Nice to hear you got it working on Android TV!
I have no clue how those values cannot be saved. I assume you press okay for the sensitivity? XD Plus the audio gain saves itself whenever you move the bar. I agree that normally you use touch to move it, so that might have something to do with it, but I'm not sure. Can you try it with a mouse?

The app doesn't touch the volume so it might be something else causing the volume to drop when the microphone is active.

 

[a5538544]

Nice to hear you got it working on Android TV!
I have no clue how those values cannot be saved. I assume you press okay for the sensitivity? XD Plus the audio gain saves itself whenever you move the bar. I agree that normally you use touch to move it, so that might have something to do with it, but I'm not sure. Can you try it with a mouse?

The app doesn't touch the volume so it might be something else causing the volume to drop when the microphone is active.

Thanks for the response and your long-term support of the app.
You're totally right. I tried with mouse and now it's fine. Forgive my nooby question.

 

[Humpie]

Thanks for the response and your long-term support of the app.
You're totally right. I tried with mouse and now it's fine. Forgive my nooby question.

Don't worry about it!
Now I know it doesn't work well with a dpad .

 

[Jimbobleics1972]

Andriod tv hotword

Can you tell me how you got this working on android tv? It crashes on mine.

Thanks for the response and your long-term support of the app.
You're totally right. I tried with mouse and now it's fine. Forgive my nooby question.

 

[a5538544]

Can you tell me how you got this working on android tv? It crashes on mine.

Sorry for my late reply.
My English is not good so, please read previews conversation between the author and @trohn_javolta. It'll make better sense.
Anyway, on Android TV ( -Android 9), multi apps can't access single microphone at the same time.
So you need to stop Hotword Plugin before Google.app access a microphone by using Tasker.
I still don't know what is the best approach to restart Plugin because Google.app does not tell when it release a mic.

 

[Humpie]

Sorry for my late reply.
My English is not good so, please read previews conversation between the author and @trohn_javolta. It'll make better sense.
Anyway, on Android TV ( -Android 9), multi apps can't access single microphone at the same time.
So you need to stop Hotword Plugin before Google.app access a microphone by using Tasker.
I still don't know what is the best approach to restart Plugin because Google.app does not tell when it release a mic.

Hotword plugin does this itself using the setting that stops the microphone from listening in apps with microphone permission. But that doesn't work on Android TV?
If it indeed doesn't work, you'll need to use tasker to disable hotword plugin when apps like google assistant are opened and enable it again when it closes.
Or you disable hotword plugin and enable it again after 30 seconds or so if you use it to tell Google Assistant to do something for instance.

 

[a5538544]

Hotword plugin does this itself using the setting that stops the microphone from listening in apps with microphone permission. But that doesn't work on Android TV?
If it indeed doesn't work, you'll need to use tasker to disable hotword plugin when apps like google assistant are opened and enable it again when it closes.
Or you disable hotword plugin and enable it again after 30 seconds or so if you use it to tell Google Assistant to do something for instance.

I think Plugin's Implemented function itself is working well also on Android TV!
But not only for Google.app on Android TV (com.google.android.katniss) because katniss is not shown up as Activity(?)
few lines from dumpsys while Assistant responding (#1 is from my android tab #2 is from my android tv)
Anyway, I think set timeout is best for now because sometimes Assistant stays for long to show the information.

 

[deechte]

Hi @Humpie on my Oneplus 7T Pro I always get a system warning that HotwordPlugin has a very high battery usage. Is that something you could look into?

Thanks!

 

[Humpie]

Hi @Humpie on my Oneplus 7T Pro I always get a system warning that HotwordPlugin has a very high battery usage. Is that something you could look into?

Thanks!

Don't worry, Oneplus always complains that everything uses much battery. Yes, Hotwordplugin uses more battery than the average app, however it's using as little as possible. Although, having an app listen to your microphone at all time and process to check whether a hotword is said comes at a slight battery cost. That's just unavoidable. Google overcomes this by putting an extra physical chip in the phone to process "Okay Google" commands.

 

[deechte]

Thanks! That's reassuring. I'll choose to ignore it from now on.

 

[deechte]

In case you take ideas for further development, I'd love to see some customization options for the hotword-detected sound. Right now, that ping is shrill and very loud compared to other sounds on my device. It even scares passengers in my car.

It would be great if you could make the volume of that ping as a user setting. And related: maybe that notification sound could be chosen by the user as well.

Just my 2ct, thanks for your already great product!

 

[Humpie]

In case you take ideas for further development, I'd love to see some customization options for the hotword-detected sound. Right now, that ping is shrill and very loud compared to other sounds on my device. It even scares passengers in my car.

It would be great if you could make the volume of that ping as a user setting. And related: maybe that notification sound could be chosen by the user as well.

Just my 2ct, thanks for your already great product!

Well, you've got Tasker, don't you?
I just left the ping sound in for debugging purposes really, to see whether a hotword works at all. However you can just turn it off and play any sound any way you like it using a task in tasker.
As for notification sounds, you can change that using the notification settings on your phone! Long press the notification to make it silent, minimized, change the sound etc.

 

[deechte]

Hi, thanks.
I was looking in the app settings, for controlling the ping, and didn't find it. I now found it is a setting in each hotword separately. Disabling it can only be done there.

My Android 10 notification settings for this app were set to silent already, that obviously gets overruled. Should it?

Thanks for the tip of doing another sound with Tasker. I could indeed play a different sound in the first action of the tasks that get called by the hotword plugin.

 

[Humpie]

Hi, thanks.
I was looking in the app settings, for controlling the ping, and didn't find it. I now found it is a setting in each hotword separately. Disabling it can only be done there.

My Android 10 notification settings for this app were set to silent already, that obviously gets overruled. Should it?

Thanks for the tip of doing another sound with Tasker. I could indeed play a different sound in the first action of the tasks that get called by the hotword plugin.

Yup you're right. It's on a per-hotword basis.

It shouldn't get overruled, however you need to change the settings for the proper notification channel instead of the entire app. Maybe that's something you could try?