Hi Members,

I want to share my experience here using MMM-AssistantMk2.
My objective was to be able to control my Mirror with voice command eg: “Set volume to 5” to have it at 50%

Looking at the MMM-Assistantmk2.js code I saw the transcription hook and decided to use that.
With the help of @Sean who has developed this module, I have implemented some additional lines in the mentioned file. ( all coding credit goes to Sean ) Else the same working code would have been ugly if it was by me :)

First in the section: transcription hook
add

"VOL_HOOK": { pattern: "set volume to ([0-9]+)", command: "VOL_COMMAND" },

then lower in section command

"VOL_COMMAND": { shellExec: { exec: "amixer sset -M 'PCM'", options: (params, key) => { return (params[1] * 10) + "%" } }, }

This allows me now to say “Jarvis” … “set volume to 5” then my volume will be set to 50%.

Note that you will need to pull the last update from git to get this works as we found a bug in the code with the ‘param’ while I tried to implement that. Sean fixed that very quickly and it’s now available.

Hope that will be useful for the community and thanks again to Sean for this great module.

You can find the full discussion on this topic here https://github.com/eouia/MMM-AssistantMk2/issues/89

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@lavolp3 I have done that :)

@sdetweil
@cowboysdude
@lavolp3

Thanks for your posts, i got some further.

i added following line in my node_helper.js const parser = require("./MMM-Dreambox-xml2json.js");

So node_helper.js checks for MMM-Dreambox-xml2json.js within the same directory.
After this, i can use a function of MMM-Dreambox-xml2json.js inside of node_helper.js by calling parser.functionname() in my case parser.xml2json().

AxLED

@seann good point, I could just put the collections directly in the module rather than the config, that would do it. @parnic suggested using profile switcher, or at least there may be functionality to grab. I should be able to take it from here – pretty simple. The most time-consuming part will be creating the collection of collections.

@strawberry-3-141 Ok, then it was me chasing ghosts again lol. I really appreciate the help and advice, thanks.

Installing Magic Mirror

The requirements are very simple to start, Stretch Raspbian need be installed and configured with an IP address.

When the installation will ask us if we want to start by default when you start Raspberry or not, This is what everyone wants. In my case I prefer later start for different reasons, To do this I have added a script in ‘~ / .config / lxsession / LXDE-pi / autostart’ called for example’@/home/pi/magic_mirror_arranca.sh’ which has the following content:
view source
print
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cd /home/pi/MagicMirror/
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npm start # Pi2 y Pi3
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node serveronly # Pi1 y Zero

thanks
https://offshorededi.com/

You can adjust the full MM body border into the custom.css file.
(/MagicMirror/css/custom.css)

like that (play with the values until you’re happy) :

body { margin: 20px; height: calc(100% - 40px); width: calc(100% - 40px); }

You should maybe also check the settings of your screen itself (depending if you have that issue outside MM or not).

@mykle1 Great, thanks, I’ll take a look at the voice modules and see what I can come up with. I also just found MMM-ImageFileWatcher which looks like it may do a lot of what I was looking for.

@sdetweil Perfect, thank you! :)

@sdetweil
Works like a charm.
Thank you very much, I’ve learnt something thanks to you and appreciated your support for debug.
See you around.

@hacaro Or read here from the beginning and good luck i still haven’t reached my goal and make it work but others have achieved it;

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/8569/mmm-mirrormirroronthewall-installation-issue/124

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@rogermathew said in Error 3154 – Restore SQL database is terminating abnormally:

Hello Experts,

Our team is developing a module which takes data from SQL Sever database 2014 and shows the data on Magic Mirror screen. We are in trouble while accessing database, all data not show on the screen. The, we tried to restore SQL database and face SQL Error 3154. To fix this kind of error, we are tried T-SQL command but no result found. Then we try to use WITH REPLACE while using restore script.

RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK = 'C:\company_file.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE company_file FROM DISK = 'C\:company_file.bak' WITH MOVE 'company_file_Data' TO 'C:\Database\company_file.mdf', MOVE 'companyfile_Log' TO 'C:\Database\companyfile.ldf', REPLACE

After executing these commands we are still facing error. Then someone suggested me to use below resources, but we are confused which one is better.
Please provide full proof method.
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6803/magicmirror-to-mssql
https://www.essentialsql.com/error-3154-restore-sql-database/
https://www.stellarinfo.com/sql-recovery.php

I have no idea, but I have a suggestion :
Create a proxy service, so you donot have to access database directly but a distant service.
This last will access the database. You can use the platform you want especially .Net technology which is very easy to integrate with SQL Server.

@maukoell said in Music Player Module:

Hello,
I am trying to create a module which plays music from a directory. I wanted to use two buttons to control it. One for Pause/Play and one to skip the current song. But unfortunately when I start the MM2 I always get the message that it is not able to find the helper for my module. I’m new to node.js so maybe there are just some basic mistakes.

My module:

Module.register("MMM-MusicPlayer",{ defaults: { playButtonPIN: 10, nextButtonPIN: 12, clickDelay: 500, musicPath = "/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-MusicPlayer/music", }, start: function() { this.sendSocketNotification("BUTTON_CONFIG", this.config); Log.info('Starting module: ' + this.name); } });

My node_helper:

"use strict"; const NodeHelper = require("node_helper"); const gpio = require("onoff"); var path = require('path'); var fs = require('fs'); const { Howl, Howler } = require('howler'); var sound; var musicList = []; var index = 0; var started; var config; module.exports = NodeHelper.create({ start: function () { started = false; }, // Subclass socketNotificationReceived received. socketNotificationReceived: function (notification, payload) { const self = this; if (notification === 'BUTTON_CONFIG' && started === false) { config = payload; self.fromDir(config.musicPath, "mp3"); self.createSound(); var GPIO = require('onoff').Gpio; var button1 = new GPIO(config.playButtonPIN, 'in', 'both', { persistentWatch: true, debounceTimeout: config.clickDelay }); button1.watch(function (err, state) { // 1 == pressed, 0 == not pressed if (state === 1) { if (sound.playing()) { sound.pause(); } else { sound.play(); } } }); var button2 = new GPIO(config.playButtonPIN, 'in', 'both', { persistentWatch: true, debounceTimeout: config.clickDelay }); button2.watch(function (err, state) { // 1 == pressed, 0 == not pressed if (state === 1) { self.playNext(); } }); started = true; } }, fromDir: function(startPath, filter) { if (!fs.existsSync(startPath)) { Log.info("no dir ", startPath); return; } var files = fs.readdirSync(startPath); var i; var fullPath; var filename; var stat; for (i = 0; i < files.length; i+=1) { fullPath = path.join(startPath, files[i]); filename = files[i]; stat = fs.lstatSync(fullPath); if (stat.isFile()) { if (filename.indexOf(filter) >= 0) { musicList.push(fullPath); } } } }, playNext: function() { if (sound.playing()) { sound.stop(); } index += 1; if (index === musicList.length()) { index = 0; } sound.play(index); }, createSound: function() { sound = new Howl({ src: musicList }); } } );

Maybe someone can help me.
Thanks in advance

I don’t think that your code respects helpers as described in official documentarion,
Or we are not talking about the same helpers Pnr Status.TextNow

You probably should not update your compliments.js file. If you update your MagicMirror framework, the new version will overwrite your changes to the module.

You probably want to add this modification to the module configuration in the /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js file.

@ernst-jan - Is your error when you are trying to install the module or when you’re trying to run the module?

Assuming the install went wrong, what command did you use to install it? Remember to use the markdown features when you reply.

do NOT do XML requests IN the getDom function… do them outside (timer) and call updateDom to signal changes to be presented. getDom() should ONLY set info for presentation… nothing else.
preparation should be done somewhere else… (timer, event handler, …)

don’t replace the entire wrapper div each time, like ripping the heart out

var wrapper = document.createElement("div"); don’t look up (getElementbyId) over and over… get it, use it multiple times
6 lookups here, need only 2… note that you are searching the ENTIRE web page (document.), not YOUR modules content (wrapper .div), and from the very top… so as the page gets fuller and fuller, the search has more things to look thru… case 1783: document.getElementById("wohnzimmer_beamermodus_bezeichner").innerHTML = "Beamermodus:"; document.getElementById("wohnzimmer_beamermodus_bezeichner").style.float = "left"; document.getElementById("wohnzimmer_beamermodus_bezeichner").style.width = "94%"; document.getElementById("wohnzimmer_beamermodus").innerHTML = status; document.getElementById("wohnzimmer_beamermodus").style.float = "left"; document.getElementById("wohnzimmer_beamermodus").style.width = "6%"; don’t update stuff that didn’t change
here u create these elements without consideration if they already exist… var schlafzimmer_heizungsgruppe_bezeichner = document.createElement("div"); don’t create lots of new content… (createElement) if you don’t need to.
here u create these elements without consideration if they already exist…

I’m using the MMM-Scrobbler and really liking it. I would also like to display the last played song if there is no current song playing. Now i wonder if somebody can help me with how I can make this work?

Thank you for reading!

Thanks to @justjim1220 for contributing in two issues and thanks to @idoodler for reviewing and testing an issue

48h Hackathon recap

Metric Total Ø per hour Issues handled 12 0.25 Projects changed 7 0.15 Lines added +1.587 +33 Lines removed -1,487 -31

Merge requests that are still open for review and testing:
https://github.com/fewieden/MMM-AlarmClock/pull/22
https://github.com/fewieden/MMM-voice/pull/38
https://github.com/fewieden/MMM-Fuel/pull/32

@idoodler thanks for the help.The console part in the dev tool does help a lot!