MMM-Awesome-Alexa Trouble

sdetweil

do

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron-rebuild
cd modules/MMM-Awesome-Alexa
~/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild

let us know

xfqbe

@sdetweil Thanks for replying, I did exactly what you said correctly and it’s still showing the same errors :/ Is there anything else I should try? or maybe a different Alexa module?

WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: Cannot find module ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/electron-v6.1-linux-arm/snowboy.node’
Require stack:

/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/index.js
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_helper.js
/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js
/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js
/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js

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

shagtimetim

@sdetweil Thank you! Installing now. Being a confirmed noob to MM, can you advise on this step “Build snowboy to your device specifications, in the /snowboy directory”?

sdetweil

@shagtimetim it will do that just hang on,
all this does is take the steps on the wiki make them run in a script

it does fix one dependency correction

this is what my stuff does just a copy/paste
https://awesome-alexa.js.org/#/installation

shagtimetim

@sdetweil Thank you!! Everything now working as designed. One day, I will learn json!!!

jste84

@shagtimetim you got this module working?

shagtimetim

@jste84 I have no issues since I used Sam’s steps