Possibility to turn off trigger detection within settings.yml

[ghost]

For those who use Kalliope with REST API only trigger detection / hotword detection makes no sense at all, this holds for a planned server / client infrastructure too, see #228

[Sispheor]

And why it's a big deal to let it start anyway?

[ghost]

If server / client infrastructure is available users will probably ask for it as Kalliope is used as a backend which is meant to return answers only or initiate some actions like home automation.

The issue sone of us observed with stability of Kalliope on some systems has a good workaround but probably was due to concurring audio where in my case Kalliope audio should be redundant.

I didn't wrote that it's a big deal or should have a high or even medium priority, only that waiting for a hotword trigger is redundant if there will definitely no one.

I was not considering any CPU resources which Snowboy consumes here, i don't think that it's of any significance.

[bacardi55]

@1account would this feature answer your need?
I mean, starting kalliope muted is a bit the same as what you describe (except for the CPU used I guess) ?

[Sispheor]

I think not. Muted means that kalliope will not speaks out loud when processing a neuron.

Here, the feature is to disable the trigger process (snowboy).

[bacardi55]

Isn't it what mute does (put snowboy process on pause) ?
I see here https://github.com/kalliope-project/kalliope/blob/master/kalliope/signals/order/order.py#L237

        if muted:
            self.trigger_instance.pause()
            self.is_trigger_muted = True
            Utils.print_info("Kalliope now muted")

I guess it doesn't disable it per say though :)

FWIW: I worked on #376 via this PR if it's "enough" for now (as I think this real "disable snowboy" will only happen when moving to the server/client architecture)

[Sispheor]

@1account I think the last feature made by @bacardi55 should be what you wanted.
And indeed we cannot do more so far.

Hope it help anyway. Tell us if we can close this issue.