Microphone/MMM-voice Help

[sdetweil]

have u restarted the mirror a few times, without reboot?

the sound process does NOT get restarted…

get back to the commandline and do

ps -ef | grep pocket

and then kill that process so it can be restarted…

or reboot…

i created this little script for a prior mirror runtime that I use here too

#!/bin/bash

ps -ef | grep pocket | grep -v "color=auto" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo kill -9
ps -ef | grep node | grep -v "color=auto"  | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo kill -9

[tnp0327]

@sdetweil I have restarted the MM process and rebooted the PI - still no debug.log file.

[sdetweil]

@tnp0327 can u minimize the mirror and look at the console log of the terminal window… maybe there is some other error…

minimize = alt-spacebar, n

[tnp0327]

@sdetweil @strawberry-3-141 so I did not find a debug file but was able to follow the instructions to look at the console log and the only message I am seeing regarding MMM-voice is:

Starting module: MMM-voice MMM-voice.js:82
MMM-voice is waiting for voice command registrations. MMM-voice.js:85

[sdetweil]

@tnp0327 before the modules is the startup of the node_helpers… if u can scroll back up the console window, you might find something else…

have u tested to make sure the mic is working? with the rec command?

rec somefile.wav

on the bottom of the console window should be a meter like bar that moves when u speak…
then you can control-z out of the rec command and then play somefile.wav to see how it sounds…

[tnp0327]

OMW to work now - will run it again later and update with my feedback. Thanks for the help so far.

[Abhilash1368]

@tnp0327 I am going through same thing,it displays mic flashing symbol and just says initialising and undefined at bottom(if degug:true).Did you resolve it?please let me how to make it work?
Thanks

[strawberry 3.141]

@abhilash1368 do you have content in your debug log file?

[Abhilash1368]

@strawberry-3-141 I don’t see any content,but its working now.Initially I have my own custom twitter module loaded along with MMM-voice(my twitter.js is not modified yet to support MMM-voice). Once after making changes to my twitter.js according to “Hey Lucy” documentation to receive voice notifications,then it is started working. Thanks

[richland007]

@strawberry-3-141 Ok so i have a very similar situation i have AlexaPi (and MMM-AlexaPi for visual feedback) and want to use MMM-voice and Hello-Lucy. I have 2 USB microphones (a webcam that i talk to AlexaPI and a USB sound card that i want to use for MMM-voice)
On the config.js i have assigned microphone id of 2 for MMM-voice ( arecord -l and the install of MMM-voice show that alsa as 0 USB webcam as card 1 and USB sound card as card 2)
when i start magic mirror MMM-voice says “initializing” than briefly “Waiting for module commands” than settles on “error”
My questions are:

1. and i am pretty sure i have an answer for this is that AlexaPi and MMM-voice can they use the same mic or not … most likely not .
2. why isn’t using microphone #2 straight forward do i have to twitch anything on alsa config, etc will pulse audio be better and what is the difference ?? how do we mitigate this problem??

I have tested and confirmed that both usb microphones work when they are plugged each by themselves but not when they are both simultaneously plugged in only the webcam would record … i am not sure if i am putting the right parameter here “arecord hw:1,0 -d 10 /tmp/test-mic.wav”

Please any help will be greatly appreciated
Denis