Reported issues from hands-free use:
- Wakeword WAVs didn't play: the new "Play audio cues" master switch
([sounds] enabled) also gated the hands-free Sound: detected/captured cues,
so enabled=false silenced them. The cues live in a separate UI section, so
this was surprising. Wakeword cues are now independent of that switch: they
play whenever a file is set, and an empty field means silent (no system-chime
fallback) — which is also how you turn a hands-free cue off. The master switch
now governs only the manual (keyboard) before/after chimes.
- Clarified the four sound fields' tooltips/labels (detected/captured = hands-free
only; before/after = manual only) and the empty-field behaviour.
- New "Silence to stop (s)" setting (Settings → Input → Hands-free, or
[wakeword] silence_seconds, default 2.0): user-defined trailing-silence
timeout for hands-free auto-stop (was hard-coded to 2.5 s).
- Add MANUAL.md documenting every setting in every tab; link it from the README.
Tests: cue independence + manual-gating + roundtrip (17 passed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two follow-ups from hands-free testing:
- Audio cues had no off-switch: empty sound fields fall back to the freedesktop
system chime, so wakeword/recording always made noise. Add a [sounds] enabled
master flag (default true) exposed as "Play audio cues" in Settings → Input.
When off, _play_cue/_play_sound are no-ops — fully silent operation.
- The VAD level meter (sounddevice/PortAudio) leaked harmless thread-teardown
errors ("pthread_join ... failed", "PaUnixThread_Terminate ... failed") to the
terminal on every clip end. PortAudio writes these straight to fd 2, so wrap
the stream open/close in a fd-level stderr suppressor (_quiet_c_stderr).
Tests: cue gating respects the master switch (16 passed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two reported bugs:
1) Notifications still appeared during hands-free use while away. A wakeword
hit arriving while the previous clip was still transcribing went through
toggle(), which popped a "Busy" notification — the away-from-keyboard
notification storm. Wakeword triggers now call start_dictation(silent=True)
directly, so a busy/not-ready state is ignored silently. Transcription and
rewrite failures during a silent session are now logged instead of raising
critical desktop notifications.
2) "Wakeword did not work" with the log line "muted via /tmp/wake_muted": a
stale mute flag silently disabled detection. The tray "Pause wakeword"
toggle (already added) clears it; the daemon now also logs a clear
"Starting PAUSED" warning when it boots with the flag present.
Adds tests/test_daemon_notify.py covering silent-session suppression and the
busy-while-wakeword no-notify path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
