NousResearch/hermes-agent

Wake-word capture recovery from transient mic errors

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #127197 on 30 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a bug where transient microphone stream read errors cause the wake-word listener to stop permanently. The work involves adding restart/backoff logic and fallback to blocking reads when non-blocking reads stall.

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  • #127197 fix(wake): recover transient capture read failures and fall back to blocking reads when read_available stalls

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_wake_word.py, tests/tools/test_wake_word_stream_recovery.py, tools/wake_word.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: partial fix 1

  • #118015 fix(tools): re-open the wake-word capture after transient stream read errors · partial fix → #118011, #118001
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#118001wake-word listener dies permanently on transient mic stream error (no restart/backoff)
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#127197
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30 Sep 2026

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