Need help configuring the WonderEcho on the TonyPi Pro robot.

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  • Product model: TonyPi Pro
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Issue Description

  1. What did you expect to happen? when I used the wakeup hello-hi-wonder it should respond with I’m here
  2. What actually happened? nothing
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The documented factory wake phrase is Hello, Hiwonder. For the documented test, a voice feature must be running and WonderEcho Pro must finish initializing before you say it.

  1. Check that WonderEcho Pro is connected from its Type-C port to a USB port on TonyPi Pro.
  2. Start a voice feature in the TonyPi app and wait until the robot announces “Ready.” Then say Hello, Hiwonder clearly.
  3. If you use the English large-model functions, open Tool through VNC, select TonyPi Pro and English, then choose Save > Apply > Exit in that order.
  4. Verify the USB audio connection through VNC. The desktop should show microphone and speaker icons. You can also run:
arecord -l

Use the detected card number in place of 0 in the official recording test:

arecord -D hw:0,0 -f S16_LE -r 16000 -c 2 test.wav

Speak for about five seconds, press Ctrl+C, and play it back:

aplay test.wav
  1. If recording and playback work but the wake phrase is still not detected, test the wake firmware separately on a computer. Connect WonderEcho Pro by Type-C, open Serial Port Utility, select the port containing CH340, set the baud rate to 115200, and say hello hiwonder. Successful recognition produces hexadecimal data in the utility.

Please reply with whether the robot announced “Ready,” the complete output of arecord -l, whether test.wav contains clear speech, and whether you have changed or reflashed the WonderEcho Pro firmware. Do not conclude that the module is defective based only on the missing wake response.

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