MMM-Awesome-Alexa Trouble

sdetweil

@xfqbe not really.

what did the electron-rebuild say?

sdetweil

@xfqbe did u do all the instruction steps? some 15 of them

xfqbe

@sdetweil The electron-rebuild was normal without any error codes and yes I followed these steps. https://www.howtogeek.com/423233/how-to-add-alexa-to-your-smart-mirror/

sdetweil

@xfqbe no. the instructions in the module.

i compiled fine

see the readme

hectoreg21

Hi!! I don’t know if you are still interested or if you already figured it out, but it happened to me too and have just found a fix. So here it is, for you, or whomever may need it.

Go to the MagicMirror folder, get inside modules, and rename the folder “MMM-awesome-alexa” to “MMM-Awesome-Alexa”.

It seems like the program is Capitals sensitive and couldn’t find the pathway. After renaming, it stopped giving back those errors.

Let me know if this helped you!

Have fun!!

sdetweil

@hectoreg21 but when u git clone it uses the project name so this shouldn’t happen

hectoreg21

@sdetweil You are so true! The program does not give back any errors at all, but Alexa does not work either (because of the pathway name change). Sorry I didn’t notice this before posting. I’ll keep looking into it.

And thanks for the reply!

sdetweil

@hectoreg21 unless u are following some old workbook of instructions

shagtimetim

@sdetweil
The information related to the capitalization is found on the developers install page. He specifically calls out “MMM-awesome-alexa”. However, I have yet to get this module to function. Each time I add to the MM config, the black screen with cursor appears.

sdetweil

@shagtimetim i created a script of his steps,
make executable.
doinstall.sh

does all the module install steps, so remove the current awesome-alexa module folder, ignore the errors, only result of last step matters