How would dissabling training ping affect training?

[lopezjuanma96]

Hello,

First of all, I am not an expert in programming, so sorry in advance if some questions sound too dumb. I am in a learning process.

I am trying to train a TTS model using coqui-ai/TTS framework on a remote server/computer, which seems to have some sort of VPN or something that makes the training raise the error [Errno -2] Name or service not known on the request.get(URL) command in ping_training_run. I don't really know why this happens, but it seems to be a VPN problem, and since this is working on a remote computer that is not of my property it wouldn't be possible (or at least not easy) to change the VPN properties to allow this connection.

I could not find another solution to it or find a way to change the URL in some way that makes it possible to run it. If there is one please help me find it.

In any case, what I did manage to do is setting the environment variable TRAINER_TELEMETRY to 0 which skips the request.get(URL) on the ping function. At least for now the model seems to be training (haven't got any results yet). Will I get any unexpected result from this action? Does this affect the resulting model so much that it makes it necessary to find a solution?

These are some of the issues that keep me up at night, will I ever find an answer? 😅 Hope you can help me with it.

I'll also share the results I get from training this way, in case it's useful.