Voice and Touch control modules

sdetweil

@sankum we had a really good google assistant, but the author left and took all his modules down.
not much work was done on others for quite a while

sankum

Hi Sam,

I clones a MMM-GoogleAssistant. When I run it it complains about speaker module not found:

[ERROR] Error when loading MMM-GoogleAssistant: Cannot find module ‘speaker’
Require stack:

/home/sankum/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant/node_helper.js
/home/sankum/MagicMirror/js/app.js
/home/sankum/MagicMirror/js/electron.js

Is there something missing or I need to install something else? Thanks.

sdetweil

@sankum where is that module sourced from

git remote -v

in the module folder

sankum

Hi Sam,

Following is the source:

sankum@rpi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant $ git remote -v
origin https://github.com/jeffmur/MMM-GoogleAssistant.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/jeffmur/MMM-GoogleAssistant.git (push)
sankum@rpi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant $

sdetweil

@sankum yeh, I don’t know.

speaker still exists
https://www.npmjs.com/package/speaker

the module was last updated 4 years ago, so who knows…

sankum

Thanks. But clearly something is outdated? Snippets of error messages below. Does not install. Is it simply old version or something can be done to salvage or anu other alternative? Thanks.

://eslint.org/version-support for other options.
npm error code 1
npm error path /home/sankum/MagicMirror/modules/node-speaker/node_modules/speaker
npm error command failed
npm error command sh -c node-gyp rebuild
npm error make: Entering directory ‘/home/sankum/MagicMirror/modules/node-speaker/node_modules/speaker/build’
npm error CC(target) Release/obj.target/output/deps/mpg123/src/output/alsa.o
npm error make: Leaving directory ‘/home/sankum/MagicMirror/modules/node-speaker/node_modules/speaker/build’
npm error gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm error gyp info using node-gyp@11.0.0
npm error gyp info using node@22.16.0 | linux | arm64
…

sdetweil

@sankum the working alternative no longer exists.

there is no author commitment to maintain their module contributions. if you care/want/can resurrect a module, more power to you.

here is the story on Alexa
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/16069/alexa-implementations-now-more-difficult-and-some-features-will-stop-working

sankum

Thanks. If I had the skills I certainly will endeavor to do so. So for now may not be able to use Voice after all.
What would be another way to see future months in the Calendar when it is set as a display, say on the wall? Using mouse? Thanks.

sdetweil

@sankum i use mmm-pages, and 3 instances of MMM-Calendarext3 one for current month, next and after.

some have added swipe to that, so you can wave a hand, with the right sensor

page-indicator module can give you on screen buttons for direct page access too (assuming you have touch support, built in or ir frane)