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  • J Offline
    Journeytojah
    last edited by Mar 10, 2017, 11:10 AM

    Just a quick and final update.

    Considering the recent revelations made by Wikileaks #Vault7, I have decided to stay away from Alexa; at least for now.

    Already found two possible alternatives, I will not compromise my or anyone else’s privacy.

    Best of luck,

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      elblogbruno @Journeytojah
      last edited by Mar 12, 2017, 12:23 PM

      @Journeytojah which are they?

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        Journeytojah @elblogbruno
        last edited by Mar 12, 2017, 12:29 PM

        @elblogbruno You can find them here: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/index.html

        And you can read about what this means pretty much anywhere online.

        Also see this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGFp2tUweI .

        PS: for a long time I’ve been an advocate of security on IoT devices, shortly after the realease of Shodan serach engine; I cannot stress enough how important it is to keep your devices safe from prying eyes or ears, or keep them from being part of a botnet.

        I will not hijack this thread and @joanaz’s work any more. Great job for the module, it’s just not what i need :)

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          d3r
          last edited by Mar 12, 2017, 3:10 PM

          @Journeytojah I see what you’re saying.
          The alexa devices sold by amazon are always listening but the code amazon have shared on their website is not. The alexa version available on their github is only activated on button press or can be voice ativated through snowboy or sensory. My understanding is that snowboy works offline and doesn’t require an internet connection. So yes, alexa could be spying on you but all alexa devices might not be. I am 90% sure mine isn’t but I could be wrong.

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            elblogbruno @Journeytojah
            last edited by Mar 12, 2017, 8:19 PM

            @Journeytojah I meant the other Assistants like alexa you talked about?
            But thanks for the info!

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              romain
              last edited by Apr 4, 2017, 12:00 PM

              Hello. I have follow the guide multiple time now. At first I had trouble to get an answer from the Alexa skill (turned out it was because of the region, choosing us east Virginia wasn’t doing the trick for me. I needed to creat my lambda as eu ireland and to change the region value to eu-west-1 within the MirrorMirror.js in both folder).

              Now my issue is that nothing is happening even though there is no error what so ever in the log.
              I read this entire thread so I may have an idea on what the issue is but I rather ask to be sure.
              Is the module isn’t enough by itself ? do I to install some third party thing in order to use it ? (I saw “AlexaPi” mention here and there). Is it why I can’t use this module ?

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                arthurross
                last edited by Apr 19, 2017, 8:26 PM

                I got it partly working. It’s just not showing anything on the mirror. I may have sudo npm installed it.

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                  pepemujica
                  last edited by May 26, 2017, 12:29 PM

                  Hi @joanaz !
                  The module looks great! Thanks for developing it.
                  Could you help me with this?
                  I’m stuck over this step:
                  0_1495801708131_upload-97f2b27a-03b5-4725-adda-277d52f00d15
                  Can’t find the way to install the dependencies.

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                    manojjena78 @Gunwoody
                    last edited by Jun 11, 2017, 3:29 AM

                    @savage_gr1nd - Do you able to make it work?? I have an issue where the Magic mirror and Alexa module does not interact each other, but individually works fine. I can ask Alexa- then I get answer. My magic mirror also works fine. But when I say Alexa show me video of X , nothing happens and no text message is shown on the Mirror. Also when I test Simulator with hello then I get a response back. But when I use log work , it gives error . ("The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.). Anyone please guide.
                    Thanks,
                    MK

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                      torresfm
                      last edited by torresfm Jul 3, 2017, 9:49 PM Jul 3, 2017, 8:13 PM

                      Hi! @joanaz, @savage_gr1nd , @Journeytojah

                      I’ve been trying to get this skill to work, but I’m stuck with a Lambda error that doesn’t really give me much to work on. My AWS IoT dashboard does show successful connections and I’ve followed every step in the readme to a T (I’ve even read this most of this thread to go make sure I didn’t make the common mistakes), but when I try to run a test on the Lambda function I get this error below. Thanks for the help in advance!

                      {
                        "errorMessage": "Invalid connect options supplied.",
                        "errorType": "Error",
                        "stackTrace": []
                      }
                      
                      Log output:
                      
                      START RequestId: 4b366259-601e-11e7-899b-8dd5d86aa5dd Version: $LATEST
                      module initialization error: Error
                          at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
                      END RequestId: 4b366259-601e-11e7-899b-8dd5d86aa5dd
                      REPORT RequestId: 4b366259-601e-11e7-899b-8dd5d86aa5dd	Duration: 0.37 ms	Billed Duration: 100 ms 	Memory Size: 128 MB	Max Memory Used: 33 MB
                      

                      I copied and pasted the Lambda request from the Alexa Skill config simulator for the test in Lambda: (I’ve redacted the id keys)

                      
                      Request:
                      {
                        "session": {
                          "sessionId": "SessionId.xxxx",
                          "application": {
                            "applicationId": "amzn1.ask.skill.xxxx"
                          },
                          "attributes": {},
                          "user": {
                            "userId": "amzn1.ask.account.xxxx"
                          },
                          "new": true
                        },
                        "request": {
                          "type": "IntentRequest",
                          "requestId": "EdwRequestId.xxxx",
                          "locale": "en-US",
                          "timestamp": "2017-07-03T18:55:38Z",
                          "intent": {
                            "name": "MirrorMirrorHelloIntent",
                            "slots": {}
                          }
                        },
                        "version": "1.0"
                      }
                      
                      Response:
                      The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.
                      

                      edit:

                      I think I found a few areas in aws-iot-device-sdk in device/index.js where the error is coming from, but not sure how to fix it.

                         if (isUndefined(options) ||
                            Object.keys(options).length === 0) {
                            throw new Error(exceptions.INVALID_CONNECT_OPTIONS);
                       
                      if (isUndefined(options.host)) {
                            throw new Error(exceptions.INVALID_CONNECT_OPTIONS);
                         }
                      
                      if (!isUndefined(options.host)) {
                               var pattern =/[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.iot\.([a-z]+-[a-z]+-[0-9]+)\.amazonaws\.com/;
                               var region = pattern.exec(options.host);
                               if (region === null) {
                                  console.log('Host endpoint is not valid');
                                  throw new Error(exceptions.INVALID_CONNECT_OPTIONS);
                               } else {
                                  options.region = region[1];
                               }
                            }
                      

                      My folder struct:

                      .
                      +--certs/
                      |     +----keys_sample.json
                      |     +----keys_sample.json
                      |     +----MagicMirror.cert.pem
                      |     +----MagicMirror.private.key
                      |     +----MagicMirror.public.key
                      |     +----root-CA.crt
                      |
                      +----index.js
                      +----MirrorMirror.js
                      +----node_modules/
                      +----package.json
                      

                      The index.js and mirrormirror.js are stock, I haven’t changed a thing.

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