@baconator Oh many times as I attempt to figure out TuneIn.
I experience the same problem. The wake-up seems to happen randomly (when music is playing, ā¦).
I have a Mark I for almost a year now. It used to be good in the beginning, very good indeed. The recent upgrade however (I believe it was from Python 2 to Python 3) should be called a downgrade.
The py 2->3 update was a year or so ago, thereās been a few others in between.
Check the logs, make sure youāre running precise not pocketsphinx.
Thatās a very curious issue. It should be working by default on picroft. Unless thereās a bunch of other stuff loaded since that makes it time out when starting not sure why itās not working. 
Is there a way of getting a more verbose startup details?
Iām running just Mycroft with the Respeaker drivers and nothing else.
I started with raspbian-stretch_Picroft_2019-09-27
Currently I have mycroft-core 19.8.4, I donāt know if thatās the latest or not.
thatās current: