The satellite can be configured as one (and only one) of the 3 following types (depending on parameters in the command line):

1. Always streaming
2. V(oice) A(activity) D(etection)
3. Local wake word

For 1 and 2, wake word is configured in Home Assistant as per your screenshot.
For 3, configuration in Home Assistant is ignored (irrelevant) and wake word selection is done by the parameter in the command line. It's dependent on the service configuration in openwakeword and the satellite itself.

Regarding your points:

1. Yes, if satellite configured as "type 3". --wake-word-name is ignored in types 1 and 2.
2. Multiple words are not supported. Again, in types 1 and 2, you don't need to supply a value in command line and HA is used. In type 3, if wake word is not supplied, the satellite won't work.
3. and 4. You always have only one wake word at a time. It all depends who is doing the wake word detection, HA or the satellite. If HA, you have to install the custom wake word in HA, if the satellite, it's local.

@llluis Ahh I see I appreciate the clear feedback, thank you! At some point I got it responding to multiple wakewords.. not sure how to reproduce it at this point though. I'll post steps if I figure it out.

My goal is to have #2 VAD. However, passing "--vad" in as a parameter for Docker results in some issues. Note, these issues do not occur if I do not pass this "--vad" parameter.

Any idea what could be causing that? Do I even need to pass in "--vad" if I'm supplying a "--wake-uri" already? This is running on a pi 4.

If you want to have VAD, you must supply --vad and must not supply --wake-uri as the satellite will start streaming to home assistant when it detects voice activity and it will be home assistant who will do wake word detection.

I never ran it in Docker, but I see in your log you seem to be missing the silerovad requirement.
I quick checked the Dockerfile and it seem to be missing some requirements files which were split a while ago.
Can you please replace the contents of the requirements.txt file, rebuild your docker and report back if it works?

wyoming==1.5.2
zeroconf==0.88.0
pyring-buffer==1.0.0
webrtc-noise-gain==1.2.3
pysilero-vad==1.0.0

If it works, there will be some rework to be done in the setup script to correct everything.

Yep, that works. VAD isn't crashing anymore and yes it changes dynamically based on the Assist configuration in Home Assistant. Thanks!