MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall - Alexa voice control to hide/show modules and display text/images

[lucallmon]

@joanaz I have AlexaPi working great right now. I’m a bit reluctant to stop it and try something else right now. Can you post a video of how it’s currently working?

[Journeytojah]

Okay, i will try again with the new instructions.

Do you have any advice regarding names for the certs or other names that would need changing?

[joanaz]

@lucallmon Where do I say you have to use something else? You definitely need AlexaPi to get it working.

[joanaz]

@Journeytojah I think names do not matter, but make sure the names in MirrorMirror.js match with your certs. I called my AWS IoT Device “MagicMirror”.

[Journeytojah]

@joanaz Okay, thanks.

Do you have any idea why i got that error? The function runs in lambda when testing but in the logs i see that application ID is missing.

I made sure to put my app ID in the js script and update the lambda function.

It would get an error on 3s timeout so i set it to 15.

Ill try setting it up from scratch again and let you know how it goes. Thanks!

[zman3]

So i have to have alexapi?
Because I’m running this
https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app
Which works great you said earlier that it should work with that. Do I need both

[joanaz]

@Journeytojah do you still have the same error? I thought you got it running.

[joanaz]

@zman3 no you just need one Alexa app running. The Alexa sample app is perfectly fine.

[zman3]

So my orginal error was when I said Alex on the wall she would say there was a problem with the skill, I redid the version right before you added YouTube now when I say alexa on the wall it dings then freezes and I have to reboot the raspberry to get her to work again. I did Amazon’s hello world skill example and that one works fine. I’ll try your newest version again tonight after work.

[Journeytojah]

@joanaz I’m cloning my SD card because i ran out of free space installing AlexaPi last night.

Will start fresh and let you know if it works.

[lucallmon]

Setting up the AWS IoT service… what support plan to choose? Basic is free right? I’m not paying $30 for developer. Is this even required?

[joanaz]

@lucallmon yes you must setup an AWS IoT device, it should be free, I don’t know where you are seeing basic or developer whatever.

You should see something like this

[Journeytojah]

@lucallmon afaik you get 12 months for free, you just need to use a credit card to register, and they “use” 1$ to confirm its your account, kinda like PayPal does.

[Journeytojah]

@joanaz Now i get this error for the Lambda function… tried 3/10/15 seconds.

{
  "errorMessage": "2017-02-04T20:11:41.538Z 1b87c832-eb16-11e6-a281-33f14ad1f615 Task timed out after 15.00 seconds",
  "errorType": "Error"
}

This is the error in the Amazon Skill :
Lambda Response


1
The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.

Cloud watch log 

20:46:58
START RequestId: 11e4a442-eb1b-11e6-a7b3-3361f5194998 Version: 1
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20:46:58
Unable to import module 'index': Error at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/var/task/index.js:24:22) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (
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20:46:58
2017-02-04T20:46:58.805Z	11e4a442-eb1b-11e6-a7b3-3361f5194998	connect
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20:47:13
END RequestId: 11e4a442-eb1b-11e6-a7b3-3361f5194998
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20:47:13
REPORT RequestId: 11e4a442-eb1b-11e6-a7b3-3361f5194998	Duration: 15003.64 ms	Billed Duration: 15000 ms Memory Size: 128 MB	Max Memory Used: 26 MB
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20:47:13
2017-02-04T20:47:13.618Z 11e4a442-eb1b-11e6-a7b3-3361f5194998 Task timed out after 15.00 seconds Error


Unable to import module 'index': Error
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/var/task/index.js:24:22)
at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
at Module.require (module.js:353:17)

[Journeytojah]

By the way, I was unable to upload the .zip from the RPi, it would just say “must not exist”, so i did it from my laptop, could this be the issue?

I ran the .sh script and downloaded dependencies on the raspberry, archived the src folder contents and used my laptop to upload them.

[joanaz]

@Journeytojah it usually happens when you zip the src folder, you have to go inside the src folder, and select all the files and folder, including node_modules, and certs, and compress them to a zip file.

[Journeytojah]

@joanaz Thats what I did… I will try again.

[lucallmon]

Ok. So, I’ve decided to give up on this. The Readme files are not user-friendly. There is no step-by-step guide for install. I originally got very excited about this and if I could see it working, I might still again. However, I’m no programmer; I’m just the end user. So, good luck and let me know if you ever put out a video demo of it working and create a more user-friendly step-by-step install guide.

[bartalluyn]

Hi,

I’ve succeeded in succesfully linking Alexa to the smart mirror. When I issue a command, the mirror responds automatically. It has automatic wake word detection, audio feedback, automatic authentication using a refresh token, connection through a mirror interface. In the background it uses Alexa Skills kit and DynamoDB to make the communication happen. Read about it on my blog :
[http://smartmirrorprojectblog.wordpress.com/](link url)
Go ahead and follow the blog to find out on the progression and further development.

Tips and suggestions welcome of course.

[joanaz]

@bartalluyn really nice work! but since you have to change the Alexa Java client app to get it to work, it wouldn’t work for our application, since we need to get it to work with off-the-shelf Alexa or Alexa Echo. Right now my Alexa skill can only be used by one user, so I’m thinking about how to get it to work with multiple users so I can publish this skill, so people don’t need to worry about setting up Lambda and Alexa skill.