Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa)

[cowboysdude]

I own and Echo and it’s pretty quick :)

[d3r]

That’s pretty cool.
I have amazon alexa running alongside the MM2 on my pi too. Mine is just a simple work around and I have to click(I use a button) start listening each time I want to interact with it.

So it its always listening in your version?

[whyjustin]

So it its always listening in your version?

Yup, Sphinx is always listening (as long as Alexa is not listening). You can configure the command that invokes Alexa in the sphinx:commands dictionary. Any key in the object will be recognized by Sphinx and perform the action as configured by the value. For example:

"mirror mirror": {
  action: 'alexa'
}

Saying “mirror mirror” will trigger Alexa.

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[d3r]

I’ll give this a try when I get some free time this weekend.

[cowboysdude]

sed -i ‘s/“electron-prebuilt”: “latest”/“electron-prebuilt”: “1.2.8”/g’ package.json
sed: can’t read package.json: No such file or directory

[whyjustin]

sed -i ‘s/“electron-prebuilt”: “latest”/“electron-prebuilt”: “1.2.8”/g’ package.json
sed: can’t read package.json: No such file or directory

Answered in the GitHub issue https://github.com/whyjustin/magic-mirror-voice/issues/1

[d3r]

If I already have the alexa voice service set up on the pi is there an ‘easier’ way of setting this up or would it be better to start from scratch?
I’ll of course back up my sd card before playing with this.

[whyjustin]

If I already have the alexa voice service set up on the pi is there an ‘easier’ way of setting this up or would it be better to start from scratch?
I’ll of course back up my sd card before playing with this.

If you already have Alexa set up, then you should have all the required bits. Just update the configuration with your productId, dsn, clientId, clientSecret, alpnVersion, vlcPath, vlcPluginPath (all of which you acquired when setting up Alexa). For first run, I’d try to do serveronly mode so you don’t have to mess with the electron node version disparity.

node serveronly

then open a browser on the pi @ http://localhost:8080. If this works, then follow the Installation Notes.

[d3r]

@whyjustin said in Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa):

If I already have the alexa voice service set up on the pi is there an ‘easier’ way of setting this up or would it be better to start from scratch?
I’ll of course back up my sd card before playing with this.

If you already have Alexa set up, then you should have all the required bits. Just update the configuration with your productId, dsn, clientId, clientSecret, alpnVersion, vlcPath, vlcPluginPath (all of which you acquired when setting up Alexa). For first run, I’d try to do serveronly mode so you don’t have to mess with the electron node version disparity.

node serveronly

then open a browser on the pi @ http://localhost:8080. If this works, then follow the Installation Notes.
Thank you, I got till that part and the modules are currently loading. Your module and 2 others haven’t loaded yet. How long should it usually take?
I am using the firefox iceweasel browser.
Edit: I reloaded the page and not all my modules are loaded except the voice one. Which makes sense because I haven’t run the npm install from the module directory yet. Will do that and post back.

[d3r]

@whyjustin
I was able to set up the module but I think I did a few things wrong. I think I have the vlcPluginpath wrong in my configuration. I am not sure where it is located. I believe it is here "vlcPluginPath: ‘/usr/lib/vlc/plugins’ " but I am not sure what exacly I should be looking for. When the module loads, there is currently nothing under the module. If I reload the page it switches to “loading…” and is stuck on “loading…”
Also , once I run node serveronly and open up the localhhost page the voice module does start to load but I get the following error:
`
Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5005
Unable to run Alexa Java Client: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open './magic-mirror-voice/alexa-certificate-generator/certs/server/node.key

I went to that directory and the files do exist. I used the script to generate them. My understanding is sphinx is working but there’s something wrong with the alexa part. I’m not really sure what I should do next. I’ll keep playing with it, hopefully I’ll get it to work.

Full log here: