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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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