[MMM-AlexaOnOff] Simple Mirror Control from External Home Assistant (Alexa/Google Home/HASS.io)

richland007

@shbatm Hey there thank you again for this module … i opened this thread here
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/9326/an-additional-config-js-per-say
I am trying to install MMM-AlexaOnOff but i have a lot of modules that i will have to write lines about on and off and than some combination on and offs (that will turn the modules for my wife on and hide mine and vice versa) so one could imagine how long that module config in config.js is going to get.

@bhepler had some ideas on the last post of that thread similar to the default “compliments” module that may be implemented to reference the MMM-AlexaOnOff config.js entry as a separate file for some of us with lots of modules.

Can you help me please on how i can modify my settings so i can achieve this.
in the mean time i am about done referencing all my modules on the regular way of adding this to config.js and will give that long file a try where MMM-AlexaOnOff confi part alone is some 400 lines in my case LOL :)

Thank you and happy new year’s
Denis

richland007

@shbatm Hey there happy weekend :)
I installed the module and updated the config.js file but Alexa is unable to find any new devices in my case.
What am i doing wrong ??
I did git clone to my modules folder (as i have done with all other modules) than cd to MMM-AlexaOnOff than npm install after install i added the module into the config .js but when i ask Alexa form my Echo dot to discover new devices it says no new devices were found??
My Rpi is connected via wifi to my network.

As i have said before i do have a large number of modules but i will try it with just only one as well and see whats up.

Please let me know what my next step should be
any help is greatly appreciated
thank you again
D

MoreLinux

@richland007 I had the same, but after deleting all the devices in the Alexa app, all my devices were found again.

richland007

@shbatm @MoreLinux I tried doing only one module and deleteing everything and re discovering again but it did not find any new devices … i am not getting what am i doing wrong but i am sure it is something on my end
Is there a way and where do i look for errors??
can i see someones config .js portion of the module??

thank you in advance
D

MoreLinux

@richland007 The devices in the config.js, did they have the same name as before the trouble started??

When yes, than Alexa does a discovery, but only finds known devices. That is what happened to me after I tested the module on my test-mirror and than re-did every step on my prod-mirror.

After deleting the found wemo devices in the Alexa app, I did a “Alexa, find my devices” and all the devices were found.

richland007

@morelinux See my Alexa is not finding any wemo devices at all from the beginning every time i asked to discover devices after installing the module no wemo’s were found.
i have plenty of other home automation devices but no wemo’s or virtual wemo’s in this case.

MoreLinux

@richland007 Are the mirror and Alexa on the same network??

richland007

@morelinux yes they sure are.
when the MM starts i do not get any errors on the MMM-AlexaOnOff or anything
I do not know if there is a debug mode for the module…i am stuck
please @shbatm help me
I also uninstall and re -installed it from the beginning and nothing changed.
I am dumb founded

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shbatm

@richland007

First, as requested, here is an example config section:

{
   module: 'MMM-AlexaOnOff',
   config: {
      devices: [{
         name: "Magic Mirror",
         on: {
            notification: "ONSCREENMENU_PROCESS_ACTION",
            payload: {
               actionName: 'monitorOn'
            }
         },
         off: {
            notification: "ONSCREENMENU_PROCESS_ACTION",
            payload: {
               actionName: 'monitorOff'
            }
         },
      }]
   }
},

When you start MagicMirror, you should see a line like this in your log file. If you don’t, then it’s a problem with the module installation. Make sure you’ve run npm install from inside the MMM-AlexaOnOff folder.

FauxMo service started. Listening on 192.168.1.100:21900

And netstat -tulpn | grep electron should show something like this:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21900           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3554/electron
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3554/electron

Make sure your mirror and Alexa are on the same Wi-Fi. Make sure you delete any duplicate devices in your Alexa app or at https://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#appliances then restart Discovery.

richland007

@shbatm Hey thank you for your reply and happy new year.
I am convinced that my config.js entry (i use MMM-RemoteControl) are ok following your example.
however i do not see any

FauxMo service started. Listening on 192.168.1.xxx:21900

And when i run the

netstat -tulpn | grep electron

command i do not see a net service listening under the port 21900 either

I have unistalled and installed the MMM-AlexaOnOff module a couple of times and made sure that i have run npm install inside the cloned module folder but for some reason it is not doing what it is supposed to be doing not installing right

what do you think may be causing it??
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shbatm

@richland007 it sounds like something simple has to be missing and the module isn’t loading, otherwise you would be seeing an error.

Please post your config anyways (or send to me in a chat if you prefer). It may be something simple missing.
Confirm you are using a Raspberry Pi, on WiFi, using IPv4 (not IPv6 or ethernet–those are supported but require additional config options).
Confirm there are no errors from the module in the logs. You can run pm2 restart mm && pm2 logs to follow the logs through the whole restart process.
You can also add some console.log(...) statements in the initialize function in node_helper.js to see if you can diagnose any issues with it loading. Again, if it was making it that far and not loading you should have seen an error.

richland007

@shbatm Here is my config.js entry

{
    module: 'MMM-AlexaOnOff',
    config: {
        devices: [{ 
              name: "Horoscope Module",
              on: { 
                notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
                payload: { action: "SHOW", module: "MMM-horoscope" }
              },
              off: { 
                notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
                payload: { action: "HIDE", module: "MMM-horoscope" }
              },
        }]
    }
},

and there is the pm2 logs

(the forum wont allow me to add a picture for some reason) but its all green when it comes to MMM-AlexaOnOff

I am on wifi on the same network as the echo, i am using IPv4 and of course on Rpi

I wish i could send you the picture of the pm2 logs… it says:
Connecting socket for: AlexaOnOff
Module helper started for module AlexaOnOff
Sockets connected & Module started

What do you think?? i do not see any errors

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shbatm

@richland007 said in [MMM-AlexaOnOff] Simple Mirror Control from External Home Assistant (Alexa/Google Home/HASS.io):

What do you think?? i do not see any errors

I’m at a loss. I ran the install on a fresh install of MagicMirror (v2.7.0-dev) on the latest version of Raspbian with Desktop (Nov’18) and I got the output shown in this Gist: https://gist.github.com/shbatm/886fc811d314d136ccedeaf5663e5881. Notice the FauxMo service started. Listening on 192.168.10.92:21900 on the third to last line.

When I copy and paste your config section into my config it works fine. I run Discover Devices on Alexa and she finds “Horoscope Module” as a Wemo Switch.

What version of MagicMirror, node, and Raspbian are you using? Is it the most recent?

Try running FauxMo by itself and see if you can find the “fake” devices it creates:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-AlexaOnOff/node_modules/fauxmojs/example
node example.js

You should see: started.. and then be able to discover ‘office light’ and ‘office fan’

Edit: I did notice one thing: unless you’re using my fork of MMM-Remote-Control, the SHOW/HIDE functions require the module identifier, not the module name. The identifier will be something of the form module_4_MMM-horoscope and is the HTML ID of the module’s container (you can find this by using DevTools or digging into MMM-Remote-Control further.

richland007

@shbatm When i try to run the FauxMo example i see that it says: started …
but there is no service running on port 21900 when i do “netstat -tulpn”
I get a bunch of services running but none on that port.
And when i try to discover devices, Alexa comes up saying that no new ones were found agian… so no Office Lamp and no Office Fan

I am running Magic Mirror M 2.4.1
Node version is: v6.13.0
Rasbian Stretch 9.6 release (it is updated and upgraded as of today but i do not know if it is the lates release since i have been playing with it for a while)

one more time with some more explanation on the MMM-Remote-Control names please… i did not quite get it where would i find the names again and are they numbered by MMM-Remote-Control according to their place that they have on my congfig.js list ??

thank you for your help
Denis

shbatm

The example runs on different ports (10000, 10001 I think) but I don’t know why Alexa wouldn’t find the devices. There must be something with your network or firewall causing an issue.

The module may not be starting properly because it has a minimum MM version of 2.5.0. If you don’t want to upgrade, you can try changing line 21 in MMM-AlexaOnOff.js to match your version.

About MMM-Remote-Control: see https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control#list-of-actions for more details. The IDs are created by MM when it starts, and yes it should match the order in your config. The easiest way I’ve found to get these is to open the remote.html page on your computer, go to Edit View, and right-click > Inspect Element on one of the menu items. You’ll get something like this:

I have a Pull Request for MMM-Remote-Control pending that will let you use the names directly, but it hasn’t been incorporated yet.

richland007

@shbatm All right so i got it to work :) i have not fully tested yet with all my modules (i have 37 of them) but i did it with one and it works.

So this is what i did:

I ran the FauxMo example just like you said and it activates on ports 11000 and 11001
I than went on alexa.amazon.com from my desktop and that is where i did the device discovery that found those sample devices… from my local echo it would not find anything.
I went on the MMM-AlexaOnOff.js file and changed the minimum required version to 2.4.1 which is what i have (others if they happen to look into this forum thread should change it according to theirs)
I activated my sample 1 module on/off on my config.js and Alexa did find it but it did not do anything until i changed the name of the module to “module_6_MMM-horoscope” again just like you said above and than it worked :)

One last question: Through MMM-AlexaOnOff i want to create another on/off device called “Mirror” utilizing MMM-Remote-Control, that on On will send the command MONITORON and on Off with send the command MONITOROFF So will this work…I have no clue but just by dissecting your code???

{ 
              name: "Mirror",
              on: { 
                notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
                payload: { action: "MONITORON"}
              },
              off: { 
                notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
                payload: { action: "MONITOROFF"}
              },

Do you think i will have any issues with 37 modules??
I want to add them all on my config. js file before i run discovery on Alexa

Thank you
Denis

shbatm

@richland007 said in [MMM-AlexaOnOff] Simple Mirror Control from External Home Assistant (Alexa/Google Home/HASS.io):

from my local echo it would not find anything.

I just found this setting up some smart plugs last week – is your echo on a different account in your “Amazon Household” by any chance?

“Mirror” utilizing MMM-Remote-Control, that on On will send the command MONITORON and on Off with send the command MONITOROFF So will this work…I have no clue but just by dissecting your code???

Yes, that should work. Here’s mine verbatim:

        {
            module: 'MMM-AlexaOnOff',
            config: {
                devices: [{
                    name: "Bookcase Screen",
                    on: {
                        notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
                        payload: { action: 'MONITORON' }
                    },
                    off: {
                        notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
                        payload: { action: 'MONITOROFF' }
                    },
                },
                //{ add your other devices here },
                ]
            }
        },

Do you think i will have any issues with 37 modules??

I haven’t stress tested it like that yet. You can certainly try it… From the FauxMo notes, you may have to run Discover a few times to find them all. Just make sure you don’t have anything running on the block of 37 ports.

You can also try doing them in groups (you can send multiple notifications for each device’s on and off command, see earlier in this thread). Or use Profile Switcher or MMM-Carousel w/ Navigation (shbatm fork) to use “slides” of modules.

djsunrise19

Hi!

Sounds like a perfect alexa module. Perhaps someone can help. Alexa can’t find my device. I followed the instructions - it’s not the first module I installed. I have to say, that I’m using ubuntu mate, because I have a mini-itx board with a Intel G4600, but that shouldn’t be the problem.

I already deleted my devices and added them again - a few times. But there is no virtual Magic Mirror device.

I corrected the netInterface variable to “enp3s0”, because I’m using LAN. In the newer ubuntu versions, there is no eth0.

Here is my config:

        {
            module: 'MMM-OnScreenMenu',
        },
        {
            module: 'MMM-AlexaOnOff',
            config: {
                netInterface: "enp3s0",
                devices: [{ 
                      name: "Magic Mirror",
                      on: { 
                        notification: "ONSCREENMENU_PROCESS_ACTION",
                        payload: { actionName:'monitorOn' }
                      },
                      off: { 
                        notification: "ONSCREENMENU_PROCESS_ACTION",
                        payload: { actionName:'monitorOff' }
                      },
                }]                
            }
        },

Ideas?

Best regards
Maurice

shbatm

@djsunrise19

Please check the same things:

Check your MagicMirror version, if it’s lower than v2.5.0 and you don’t want to upgrade, you can try changing line 21 in MMM-AlexaOnOff.js to match your version.
You should see FauxMo service started. Listening on 192.168.x.x:21900 in your log file if the service started.
You can try testing with the example:

    cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-AlexaOnOff/node_modules/fauxmojs/example
    node example.js

You should see: started.. and then be able to discover ‘office light’ and ‘office fan’ on your Alexa.
4. Make sure you try discovery from alexa.amazon.com, not just your Echo.

djsunrise19

@shbatm Thank you for responding!

I have the newest version 2.6
Yes, I can see that line while starting the mirror.
I also can see this in my command line with the example.
No devices found. With echo, Alexa app and web interface. Also no test “office light” or “office fan”.

Weird?! Perhaps the netInterface problem?! Or should it work with “enp3s0”?