MMM Awesome Alexa installing snowboy.

A Former User

sdetweil

@Ameyalgudkar this procedure to verify and then fix

Is the bootloader working correctly?
To check that the bootloader is working correctly, turn off the power, unplug everything from the Raspberry Pi 4, including the SD card, and then turn the power back on. If the green LED blinks with a repeating pattern then the bootloader is running correctly, and indicating that start*.elf has not been found. Any other actions imply that the bootloader is not working correctly and should be reinstalled using recovery.bin.

Recovery image
If the Raspberry Pi is not booting it's possible that the bootloader EEPROM is corrupted. This can easily be reprogrammed using the Raspberry Pi Imager tool which is available via the raspberrypi.org downloads page.

Using the recovery image will erase any custom configuration options, resetting the bootloader back to factory defaults.

Updating the bootloader
Bootloader updates are instigated during a normal apt update, apt full-upgrade cycle, this means you will get new features and bug fixes during your normal updates.

Bootloader updates are performed by the rpi-eeprom package, which installs a service that runs at boot-time to check for critical updates.

To update your system, including the bootloader:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo reboot

and the bootloader recovery process is documented on the imager page, right?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

sdetweil

@Ameyalgudkar I also uploaded a fixed do-install.sh which loads the dependency listed before as part of the install

I have run it on three different machines and it works correctly

Ameyalgudkar

@sdetweil yes thats the one.
Also I just checked there are few parameters in that config that I have slightly different than default. Even after flashing the default recovery.img it did not get changed. So I will do it manually and check if it works.

Ameyalgudkar

@sdetweil sorry to say, but nope it does not work on mine. the same snowboy installation error.

sdetweil

@Ameyalgudkar u have to boot the sd card you imaged from the recovery file, right?

Ameyalgudkar

@sdetweil So, what I was trying to do is update my eeprom as I was getting the error at boot. and so I did the bootloader factory reset as the steps mentioned

If your Raspberry Pi 4 will not boot, it is possible that the SPI EEPROM has become corrupted. To check, remove the SD card, disconnect the device from power, then reconnect it. If the green LED does not flash, this indicates that the EEPROM has become corrupted.

Raspberry Pi Imager provides an easy way to fix this problem, by automatically preparing an SD card that will reprogram your Raspberry Pi 4’s EEPROM:

Find an SD card that is empty, or does not contain any data you want to keep; it will be completely erased of all data during this process.
Download Raspberry Pi Imager for your operating system from the list near the top of this page.
Click “CHOOSE OS” and select “Misc utility images” then “Pi 4 EEPROM boot recovery”.
Insert an SD card, click “CHOOSE SD CARD”, select the card you have inserted, then click “WRITE”.
Once the SD card is ready, insert it into your Raspberry Pi 4 then connect the Raspberry Pi to power.
Once complete, the green LED will blink rapidly in a steady pattern. Disconnect the device from power. Now you can remove the recovery SD card, insert your usual SD card, and resume using your Raspberry Pi.

that fixed the issue with eeprom not being corrupted.

But later checking the current eeprom I noticed, for some reason the default bootloader I have in Raspberry Pi’s eeprom has been set as such for every new boot I had to short the Global_EN with ground to boot the Pi.

Even that being done it did not boot the new sd card’s no matter what. (So my guess right here is its cause of the makeshift power adaptor I am using which is converting 12v dc to 5v dc)
At this point I’m starting to hate these newer RPI4’s already.

Edit- so there was actually some issue with my SD cards not being flashed properly, now I have enabled the USB boot with the latest eeprom, and the PI boots normally. will get a good sd card reader.

Ameyalgudkar

@Bugsounet with your automated process it got installed within modules of magic mirror.

gelaw

Was the error installing MMM-AwesomeAlexa solved? I am also stuck at the step “npm run prepublish”. (see below).
I tried the fix to install libcblas, but my system shows that it is already installed.
I am running a clean install of the latest Buster full release with a basic install of MagicMirror - no other add-on modules.

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy# npm run prepublish

> snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy
> tsc --listFiles

node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts:20:1 - error TS1084: Invalid 'reference' directive syntax.

20 /// <reference lib="es2015" />
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es6.d.ts
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/index.ts
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/node-pre-gyp.d.ts
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/SnowboyDetectNative.d.ts
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/node_modules/@types/node/base.d.ts
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts
/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/@types/color-name/index.d.ts
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish: `tsc --listFiles`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-09-13T14_34_37_010Z-debug.log
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy#

A Former User

@Ameyalgudkar sure that’s why I do my own … because to complex to build with original repo

I fork it and correct source file, upgraded some library.
Add some personal change for simply configuration…

But i never tested it in this module … maybe there is a few change to do … i don’t know really
I don’t use Alexa ':(

Ameyalgudkar

@gelaw no it didn’t. still trying to figure somehow to install Snowboy. just the npm install method is not executing properly. I need the help of dev if I could. but looks like he hasn’t touched his post for a while.

sdetweil

@Ameyalgudkar did u run my script? you keep going thru the steps even if there are errors…

Ameyalgudkar

@sdetweil yes I tried, but snowboy not getting installed. here is the errors

if that would be helpful for you to understand what is actually happening. sorry for the file being very long and tiring.

A Former User

install nan wih npm

sdetweil

@Ameyalgudkar no you did NOT use my script, OR follow the instructions… the instructions explicitly tell you to install nan

https://awesome-alexa.js.org/#/installation

my script, which is same as the instructions for this module, plus the step to add the one dependency
over and over we asked if u followed the instructions… but u have not…

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/MagicMirror/modules # Navigate to module folder 
if [  ! -e   ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa ]; then
   git clone https://github.com/dolanmiu/MMM-awesome-alexa.git # Clone this repository
 fi
 cd MMM-awesome-alexa # go into the module directory
 v=$(apt -qq list libatlas-base-dev 2>/dev/null)
 if [ "$v". == "." ]; then 
   sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
 fi
 npm install --only=prod # Install depdendencies
 cd node_modules
 rm -rf snowboy # Remove the installed snowboy
 git clone https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy.git # Manually get snowboy from git
 cd snowboy # Go into the /snowboy directory
 rm -rf node_modules
 npm install nan --save # Make sure you install this in the /snowboy directory        /< --------------------------------------------
 npm install node-pre-gyp@0.12.0 --save # Make sure you install this in the /snowboy directory
 npm install # Make sure you install in the /snowboy directory
 npm run prepublish # Make sure you run this in the /snowboy directory
 npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild # Make sure you install this in the /snowboy directory
 npm install nan # Make sure you install this in the /snowboy directory
 ./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild # Build snowboy to your device specifications, in the /snowboy directory

Ameyalgudkar

@sdetweil now I really dont know what else I have to follow, you can see each and every step I did, I literally copy pasted all the commands as they are. in the same order and directories, I havent included the first few steps mentioned as they get executed every time. I have posted every step which has got errors.

sdetweil

@Ameyalgudkar ignore the errors and keep going… it WILL FAIL til the last step…

which is why I offered the script to do it for you

Ameyalgudkar

@sdetweil how should I run the script? I tried the bash c but that didnt worked so did everything from script manually.
I will run the script exactly as you say and then will show you result if thats ok. also please let me know in which directory should I run the script.

sdetweil

@Ameyalgudkar
cut and paste this line into a terminal window

bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://www.dropbox.com/s/omrx3vztjp738hf/do-install.sh?dl=0)"

sdetweil

@Ameyalgudkar said in MMM Awesome Alexa installing snowboy.:

I tried the bash c

looks like you forgot the - in front of c

bash -c do-install.sh
and didn’t mark it executable
chmod +x do-install.sh

(if u already downloaded the file)