Google Assistant Shopping List display

sforsyth

Hey all,

So I made my magic mirror some time ago, and am really happy with it. I recently got a Google Home and am thinking of using the Shopping List functionality on the mirror. As in, I tell the Google Home device to add stuff to my shopping list, and it then gets displayed on my mirror. I’ve done a search on the forums here for Assistant related stuff, but it seems more a case of modules for adding the Assistant to the mirror itself, rather than just displaying info from a list I’ve generated from the Google Home device. I don’t have a mic on the mirror and am not interested in confusing the mirror and Home devices as they sit close to each other.

Afraid I’m not a programmer, which is why I’m struggling here. There seems to be some Todoist (never used it before) modules, as well as Wunderlist (also never used before), but I was hoping to go with the Google home shopping list. If it turns out this is wishful thinking, or more hassle than trying out these other shopping list options, I’ll certainly give them a go. Just need advice.

Have previously tried a Trello module but it barely ever updated and was really, really slow, so eventually I just dropped it.

Open to suggestions and would really appreciate the help!

Cheers!
Seán

maxbachmann

MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall is a module for using Alexa with MagicMirror. It allows you to hide and show stuff. You generally have Alexa running (wether with normal Alexa or Alexa Pi is not important) and then the Magic Mirror module just calls the API to receive the intent of what you said.
So you can absolutely use it with you normal Alexa. I would just take the MirrorOn TheWall module (might be interesting on it’s own with hiding showing modules and stuff already), so you see how the API with your key gets called and the intents receivedv and just replace the reaction of it by the code for showing you shopping list (you can for example take a big part of it from a shopping list module that has a design you like ;)).
So it should be a fairly easy thing to do. I am personally not using any cloud based voice recognitions for the privacy issue, but doing something similar with a offline speech recognition is definetly on my toDo for this or next week ^^

A Former User

@sforsyth As I know, Google has not opened shopping list API yet. So at this moment, it couldn’t.
But I’ve found some monkey-patch trick for crawling Google shopping list site. Maybe I can use that for building module. but not guaranteed. :)

maxbachmann

@Sean I am totally not in the amazon world so I can’t test the stuff, but it seems you can get the items (at least amazon says so

https://github.com/alexa/alexa-cookbook/blob/master/context/lists/src/index.js

thats a example on how to retrieve the list and add/delete items

maxbachmann

Set Up Permissions
In order for your skill to have read or write access to customers’ Alexa lists, it must have the appropriate permissions which you can set up in the developer console. Request Lists Read or Lists Write permissions in your skill only when they are required to support the features and services provided by your skill.
Edit your skill in the developer console.
Navigate to the Build > Permissions page.
Select the Lists Read or Lists Write check boxes, or both, depending on the requirements of your skill.

So you need to ask the for permission for you skill. Although thats still a workaround over a second skill and you can’t directly access them I guess

A Former User

@maxbachmann Frankly I don’t know anything about Alexa and its things :{ Sorry.

A Former User

@sforsyth
I’ve made this; But not fully tested. Could you test this for me?
[card:eouia/MMM-GoogleShoppingList]

maxbachmann

@Sean same about me just guessing ^^ Never used any cloud based voice solution (always using snips)
Still need to post my MagicMirror stuff with snips when I get time and a camera to make a good video on it

sforsyth

That’s great guys!

@maxbachmann I actually don’t have Alexa, I’ve only got a Google Home device, so that’s why I was hoping for a Google Shopping List module rather than anything with Alexa. Thanks though!

@Sean This is awesome! I’ll try to give this a go tonight when I get home. Thanks a million!

maxbachmann

ups lol being able to read a text would give me a clear advantage :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
The word google was just to often in the text for me to realise

sforsyth

@sean Hey Sean, I’m so sorry for the delay in replying to this, I really appreciate the effort in making it. Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me, it just stops my magic mirror from loading up properly. It just shows my mouse pointer and the screen remains black. As I said before, I’m not a programmer myself, so can’t offer much in the way of debugging, but I have installed several modules before without any problems, so I’m pretty sure it’s nothing basic. Again, sincere apologies for the late reply, life got in the way this week!

Thanks again,
Sean

A Former User

@sforsyth I need an error log to figure out what was happend.
execute npm start dev or pm2 show log and tell me what was shown.

Chris

@sean

Hello,

I tested this module too. I do not have any problems with launching my MagicMiror. The module appears well but remains empty despite the fact that I add items in my shopping list.

I started the mirror with the command npm start dev and I have one error that appears:

(node:5912) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 9): Error: Failed to launch chrome!
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleShoppingList/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-579032/chrome-linux/chrome: 1: /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleShoppingList/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-579032/chrome-linux/chrome: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")


TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md

Do you have any idea of the problem?
Thank you in advance,

Regards,

sforsyth

@sean
npm start dev gives me the following:

WARNING! Could not validate config file. Please correct syntax errors. Starting with default configuration.
Loading module helpers …
App threw an error during load
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleShoppingList/node_helper.js:51
async function get(headless) {
^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token function
at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:528:28)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:565:10)
at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at loadModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:127:17)
at loadNextModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:161:5)
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception…
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleShoppingList/node_helper.js:51
async function get(headless) {
^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token function
at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:528:28)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:565:10)
at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at loadModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:127:17)
at loadNextModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:161:5)
MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
Launching application.

A Former User

@chris
I’ve found what was wrong. I’m making an urgent fix. But not completely works.
The main reason of your issue was, lacking puppeteer had not proper Chromium for Raspberry Pi. It was not a big problem,
But during making fixture, I found something. Google ShoppingList site has a very lazy loading of contents and I couldn’t catch the exact time when all the contents were loaded.
That will makes often to get an empty list. I will abandon puppeteer and try other things. But it will take some time. Sorry.

@sforsyth your node version is too low. async will be working over node version 7.6

sforsyth

@sean Hey Sean, Sorry man, I have no idea what that means when you say my node “version is too low”…

A Former User

@sforsyth “async” feature would work above node version 7.6. your node version might be lower than 7.6.
Anyway, I cannot fix the main issue of this module at this moment, so you don’t have to bother yourself with this module. sorry.

sforsyth

@sean Ah. I meant I have no idea what my “node” is. :)
Anyway, if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. Thanks for putting the time in to try it, I really appreciate it!

Chris

@sean

Bonjour,

Pas de soucis pour moi, j’attendrai que tu ais le temps de te pencher sur le problème.

Merci pour ton travail,

Cordialement,

shavesophere

@sean Hi Sean, and thanks for the effort put into this module. I too have the same problem as @sforsyth - just a white screen and magic mirror does not load. I have installed puppeteer and chromium as per your install instructions but still no action. I’m Just keeping an eye on this thread looking forward to a fix! Thanks again.