Excessive cpu load with Piper 2.2.1 #4386
Description
Describe the issue you are experiencing
This week I noticed my Proxmox node made a considerable jump in power consumption from 6-10W to 20-30W.
The CPU load of the VM with Home Assistant OS has always been around 2% but during the week it first increased to a stable 15% and a few days later to 30%.
One of the first things I did was to restart HAOS in Safe Mode which made no difference.
When I checked in HAOS addons I saw that Piper reported 14% CPU load. How that ended up as 30% for the VM I don't know but when disabling Piper everything went back to normal. The node power consumption is back at 6-10W and HAOS VM CPU load is around 2%
What type of installation are you running?
Home Assistant OS
Which operating system are you running on?
Home Assistant Operating System
Which app are you reporting an issue with?
Piper
What is the version of the app?
2.2.1
Steps to reproduce the issue
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System Health information
System Information
| version | core-2026.1.3 |
|---|---|
| installation_type | Home Assistant OS |
| dev | false |
| hassio | true |
| docker | true |
| container_arch | amd64 |
| user | root |
| virtualenv | false |
| python_version | 3.13.11 |
| os_name | Linux |
| os_version | 6.12.63-haos |
| arch | x86_64 |
| timezone | Europe/Stockholm |
| config_dir | /config |
Home Assistant Community Store
| GitHub API | ok |
|---|---|
| GitHub Content | ok |
| GitHub Web | ok |
| HACS Data | ok |
| GitHub API Calls Remaining | 5000 |
| Installed Version | 2.0.5 |
| Stage | running |
| Available Repositories | 2680 |
| Downloaded Repositories | 2 |
Home Assistant Cloud
| logged_in | false |
|---|---|
| can_reach_cert_server | ok |
| can_reach_cloud_auth | ok |
| can_reach_cloud | ok |
Home Assistant Supervisor
| host_os | Home Assistant OS 17.0 |
|---|---|
| update_channel | stable |
| supervisor_version | supervisor-2026.01.1 |
| agent_version | 1.8.1 |
| docker_version | 29.1.3 |
| disk_total | 30.8 GB |
| disk_used | 10.3 GB |
| nameservers | 192.168.3.41, 192.168.3.1 |
| healthy | true |
| supported | true |
| host_connectivity | true |
| supervisor_connectivity | true |
| ntp_synchronized | true |
| virtualization | kvm |
| board | ova |
| supervisor_api | ok |
| version_api | ok |
| installed_addons | Node-RED (20.2.4), Terminal & SSH (9.22.0), Get HACS (1.3.1), File editor (5.8.0), Piper (2.2.1), Whisper (3.1.0) |
Dashboards
| dashboards | 4 |
|---|---|
| resources | 1 |
| views | 14 |
| mode | storage |
Recorder
| oldest_recorder_run | January 24, 2026 at 11:21 PM |
|---|---|
| current_recorder_run | February 3, 2026 at 9:15 PM |
| estimated_db_size | 580.65 MiB |
| database_engine | sqlite |
| database_version | 3.49.2 |
Spotify
| api_endpoint_reachable | ok |
|---|
Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?
Anything in the app logs that might be useful for us?
Additional information
I just had the addon enabled for a test a while ago. I am not really using the addon but thought I'd report this if others experience problems.