From: bulleid@ku.gro.lioff   
      
   In message <10dg96e$2n6ng$1@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher   
    writes   
   >On 24/10/2025 13:23, Adrian wrote:   
   >> In message <10dejui$293ep$1@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher   
   >> 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.  The Pi is in a safe place, and is fastened down.    
   >>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   
   >   
   >   
      
   What is now puzzling me, is that mid afternoon it started working again   
   (nohup rather than cron mode).  I haven't changed anything since I   
   fiddled around as described upthread.   
      
   Isn't modern technology wonderful.   
      
   Thanks to all who have contributed.   
      
   Adrian   
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