Microphone Greys out after 10 to 30 seconds
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Dark Zebendein
On any sim now starting on 5-15-2026 I have voice, I can use voice and microphone, but within 30 seconds it greys out my microphone. I can still hear people. Restarting voice sometimes turns it back on but usually does not and even when turned on it will grey out within 30 seconds again
This happens on Firestorm, Alchemy, and the flatpak version of Firestorm on both Arch based and Debian based distributions (IE Ubuntu)
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Hecklezz Resident
I have fixed this in Firestorm which will be available in our next beta and release here- https://github.com/FirestormViewer/phoenix-firestorm/commit/133616e28b4f0c40e81c42090ca99bddbff09a9c
Since Firestorm still supports OpenSim and there are OpenSim regions that still pay for and use Vivox, we can't simply just rip SLVoice out of the viewer. We will however after our next release, prevent SLVoice from being ran and trying to connect to Vivox at all if logging into Second Life (and not OpenSim), instead of ripping it out of the Viewer entirely like LL will be doing in their viewer.
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Maestro Linden
Hi Dark Zebendein I think you might be seeing this Linux-specific viewer issue: https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/5795 "Linux viewer disables 'Speak' button after 2 minutes in Vivox-disabled region"
A few questions to see if this is the same issue:
- Is your viewer otherwise connected to voice? Do you still have a voice dot and can hear others speaking in voice?
- What are the last several #Voice messages appear in the viewer log prior to the disconnect? Are they the same as that GitHub issue?
- If you delete, rename, or otherwise make SLVoice non-executable, does the issue persist? I found that in my case, getting rid of the binary prevented this bug from surfacing. SLVoice only provides Vivox voice connectivity, and there are no longer any Vivox regions left on the grid.
Dark Zebendein
Maestro Linden
1) yes voice dot still exists and I can still hear everyone AND see my voice dot
3) that APPEARS to have resolved it.
Maestro Linden
I'm not sure how other packages distribute the files, but if you download and extract the tarball for the SL or Firestorm viewer, the
SLVoice
binaries are in the bin
subdirectory:$ find Firestorm-Betax64_AVX2-7-2-4-80703/ Second_Life_Project_Lua_Editor_26_1_1_24528939506_x86_64/ -name SLVoice
Firestorm-Betax64_AVX2-7-2-4-80703/bin/SLVoice
Second_Life_Project_Lua_Editor_26_1_1_24528939506_x86_64/bin/SLVoice
I'd recommend renaming rather than deleting in case you need to restore the file.
I found that using
chmod
to make SLVoice
non-executable does not
avoid this bug, so I wouldn't recommend trying that method.Dark Zebendein
Maestro Linden
Correct, always rename ;) I have renamed it booga1 :-) Thanks for the advice, can we have this alerted somewhere? I was searching this all over and never saw any information that the non EXE SLVoice file was causing the issue.
Pretty simple fix for a linux user
Maestro Linden
Dark Zebendein: Thanks for confirming. We actually do have this viewer issue added as a "known issue" in the server release notes: https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/simulator/2026-05-12.25766421211.html
There's no official Linux viewer release from Linden Lab, but I can make sure our TPV contacts know about it. I think excluding SLVoice and related files from the release package would be the easiest fix.