deploy/mavwaked.service

@@ -41,18 +41,27 @@ Requires=maven-voice-tunnel.service
 After=maven-voice-tunnel.service
 
 [Service]
-# card 0 is the fifine USB microphone. Named, and not "default", because the
-# default device follows whatever pipewire last decided and this daemon should
-# not change ears when he plugs in a headset.
+# The Scarlett Solo 4th Gen, and not the fifine. The fifine was the device
+# here for three days and mavwaked never logged one utterance in them, because
+# it returns RMS 0.00004 with its capture switch on and its ALSA volume at the
+# full 496 of 496. That silence is in the hardware, so no flag reaches it.
+#
+# Named CARD=Gen and not card 4, because a USB card number moves when
+# something else is replugged and this daemon must not change ears quietly.
+# Not "default" either: that follows whatever pipewire last decided.
 #
 # plughw and not hw. mavwaked asks arecord for 16kHz mono, which is what the
-# whole pipeline is canonical in. The fifine offers 2 channels at 44100 or
-# 48000 and nothing else, so bare hw:0,0 dies on "Channels count non
-# available" before a frame is read. plughw puts ALSA's downmix and resampler
-# in front. Any replacement microphone wants the same treatment.
+# whole pipeline is canonical in. Neither microphone offers it, so bare hw
+# dies on "Channels count non available" before a frame is read. plughw puts
+# ALSA's downmix and resampler in front. Any replacement wants the same.
+#
+# The Scarlett measured RMS 0.003 against 0.14 on the onboard input, so its
+# front-panel gain is the thing to raise if she mishears. That is a knob, not
+# a control ALSA exposes. The two loud devices, the onboard ALC897 and the
+# camera, both clip at peak 1.0 and are worse candidates, not better ones.
 Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%h/.local/lib
 ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/mavwaked \
-  -device plughw:0,0 \
+  -device plughw:CARD=Gen,DEV=0 \
   -addr 127.0.0.1:9100 \
   -lang ru \
   -vad-model %h/.local/share/maven/models/silero_vad.onnx \