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

[joanaz]

@savage_gr1nd erhhh, inside the module folder. you also need to copy the certs folder over

[savage_gr1nd]

@joanaz I’m sorry I’m being retarded. I’ve been staring at json too long. In the magic mirror module folder or the mirrormirror folder?

[joanaz]

@savage_gr1nd ?? to run npm install? in the magic mirror module folder, where package.json is

[savage_gr1nd]

@joanaz okay. Like I said I’m sorry. This is my first pi project AND my first module for magicmirror.
When putting mirrormirror in the config.js, does it matter where in the list? I put inew the config info and then it says I screwed up the config.js.

[savage_gr1nd]

@joanaz soooo close. On/off modules. Check. But no text on screen.
Find a video? Text on screen. No video. And how do you close my supposed video?
Any help? I’m so close I can taste victory!

Update - google developer console says success connection with api on that command. So I’m guessing it’s a player launch failure or missing a folder for youtube-node?

[joanaz]

@savage_gr1nd there’s no text on screen when you turn on/off module. can you get display text or display image commands to work? right now the text/image/video will remain on the screen, the video will be played in a loop, but you can simply add a timeout to hide this module after few seconds. The ‘next up’ Youtube video idea is also cool, do you think you can implement it yourself?

[joanaz]

Just out of curiosity, which cities are you guys in? I’m in New York.

[savage_gr1nd]

@joanaz I’m in California.
And I could try if I can ever figure out why I can’t get video to pop up in the first place lol and no I can’t get images to work either. That tests error in alexa skill Console so I’m digging into you tube first. Which tests positive.
I say find a video of… and she responds and puts the text on screen. But the url window doesn’t show.

[Journeytojah]

I still didn’t get mine to work, I haven’t tried again to be honest…

I am in Spain, if that makes a difference.

I was trying out other options for voice control like Jasper, etc; no luck so far.

I might come back to this module tonight and try to get it running.

Should I try to set it up for the European region that supports Alexa skills? (which is Ireland afaik)

[joanaz]

@Journeytojah I think the region is why some people couldn’t get it to work. Right now, Lambda only works with US East regions. So better use US East for every AWS services needed here.