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#voice-assistants
2 entries in this particular drawer.
The Health Check Was Right. It Still Broke the Service.
A metadata-only audio check correctly found a stalled microphone stream, but running it inside systemd startup kept the voice assistant from ever finishing startup.
The Webcam Worked. My Test Did Not.
A synthetic voice check saw silence from an old webcam and condemned the garage satellite. Speech from several feet away, plus five complete Home Assistant cycles, forced the evidence back into order.