Advise for a voice assistant

bibi

Hello all!
Have been looking around for a suitable voice command for my MM since a while but couldn’t get to pick up one that does/accept some pre-req. as:

a bit of privacy as wake up hotword &
interaction with MM &
one that works well, is reliable and not a pain to install :)

I have gone trough kalliope, open jarvis, thinking about Mk2assistant bur not tried yet…

any sharing/experience would be much appreciated!

by the way what do you guys use?

ejay-ibm

@bibi Hi,
I would definitely recommend Mk2assistant + Hotword module.
Ejay

THeStigh

@ejay-ibm Yeah, works perfect if you keep to the ‘correct’ hardware and OS like Pi or ATB.

ejay-ibm

@THeStigh Indeed, using it on a Rasp 3 b+ fully up to date.

thedoorsfanatic

@ejay-ibm
I was able to run MK2assistant but never managed to install Hotword.
Is there a tutorial out there which shows me how to do it, absolute beginner style?

ejay-ibm

@thedoorsfanatic
I think the Readme here : https://github.com/eouia/MMM-Hotword/
is pretty clear, that is what I followed and I have it working directly.
check out the Tip section to include hotword in the mk2 assistant and you should be good.
If you run into issue you can share your config file and I can have a look .

Ejay

thedoorsfanatic

@ejay-ibm
all right, thanks, I will try it again but usually it failed when trying to install snowboy

A Former User

@thedoorsfanatic
Give me a telegram When you are stuck on. Telegram:@eouia

THeStigh

@thedoorsfanatic

What hardware and OS are you using ?

thedoorsfanatic

@THeStigh
I am using a Raspi 3 B+ and latest release of Stretch and MagicMirror.
I am a newbie and though I tried all the troubleshooting tipps described I wasn’t able to install Hotword and snowboy.

THeStigh

@thedoorsfanatic Snowboy can be tricky, but @sean has made some good troubleshooting guides on the page for MMM-Hotword. But you can delete the MMM-Hotword folder and try to re-install it following these instructions to do it quite manually. If it fails, you at least will get a clear picture of where it actually failed:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/
sudo apt-get install libmagic-dev libatlas-base-dev sox libsox-fmt-all
git clone https://github.com/eouia/MMM-Hotword.git
cd MMM-Hotword
npm install

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
npm install nan
./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild

thedoorsfanatic

This is the error code:

snowboy@1.3.1 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(403): https://snowboy-release-node.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/snowboy/v1.3.1/Release/snowboy-v1.3.1-node-v64-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for snowboy@1.3.1 and node@10.15.2 (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(undefined): https://snowboy-release-node.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/snowboy/v1.3.1/Release/snowboy-v1.3.1-node-v64-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for snowboy@1.3.1 and node@10.15.2 (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module ‘nan’
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
at [eval]:1:1
at Script.runInThisContext (vm.js:96:20)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:303:38)
at Object. ([eval]-wrapper:6:22)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
at evalScript (internal/bootstrap/node.js:587:27)
gyp: Call to ‘node -e “require(‘nan’)”’ returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module ‘nan’
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
at [eval]:1:1
at Script.runInThisContext (vm.js:96:20)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:303:38)
at Object. ([eval]-wrapper:6:22)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
at evalScript (internal/bootstrap/node.js:587:27)
gyp: Call to ‘node -e “require(‘nan’)”’ returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gypgyp ERR! stack Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:345:16)
ERR!gyp ERR!configure error
stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.98-v7+
gyp ERR!gyp stack Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1
ERR!gyp commandERR! “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js” “configure” “–fallback-to-build” “–module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node” “–module_name=snowboy” “–module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm”
stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:345:16)
gyp gypERR! ERR!stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
cwdgyp /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
ERR! gypstack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)
ERR! node -v v10.15.2
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.98-v7+
gyp ERR! command “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js” “configure” “–fallback-to-build” “–module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node” “–module_name=snowboy” “–module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm”
gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.2
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute ‘/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node --module_name=snowboy --module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm’ (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.98-v7+
node-pre-gyp ERR! command “/usr/bin/node” “/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp” “install” “–fallback-to-build”
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.2
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.39
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute ‘/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node --module_name=snowboy --module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm’ (1)
npm WARN MMM-Hotword@1.1.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! snowboy@1.3.1 install: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the snowboy@1.3.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

bibi

@ejay-ibm, @THeStigh i have installed MMM-Hotword. I hope correctly? as i got only warning via npm like

npm WARN MMM-Hotword@1.1.0 No repository field.
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword $ npm install --save snowboy
npm WARN deprecated cryptiles@2.0.5: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated boom@2.10.1: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated hoek@2.16.3: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN MMM-Hotword@1.1.0 No repository field.

I am not sure how i can test it tho?
Or there is nothing to expect with only MMM-hotword installed?
(sorry if my question is stupid :) )

sdetweil

@bibi start mirror in dev mode

npm start dev

Select the console tab in the developers window

You should see MMM-Hotword sending notifications of the words it recognizes

A Former User

@bibi

npm WARN MMM-Hotword@1.1.0 No repository field.
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword $ npm install --save snowboy
npm WARN deprecated cryptiles@2.0.5: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated boom@2.10.1: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated hoek@2.16.3: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN MMM-Hotword@1.1.0 No repository field.

You can ignore some WARN unless your program is working.

bibi

@ejay-ibm, i wanted to follow your good practice and update MM to latest (ok) and OS to stretch (ok) but now it pm2 won’t start MM automatically as it did in the past… would kindly help me to solve this issue before i can install mk2?
thx alot for any help as well

Mykle1

@bibi

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror

bibi

@Mykle1, thx for your post. It appears that when i want to check npm version, the system issues :

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm -v
-bash: npm: command not found

Therefore something went wrong during the system upgrade to stretch.
If i am not wrong npm comes along with nodejs which i have current version

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ nodejs -v
v8.11.1

I think i would just install it again but i don’t know if I should do it from /home/pi or from inside /home/pi/MagicMirror ?

Mykle1

@bibi said in Advise for a voice assistant:

I think i would just install it again but i don’t know if I should do it from /home/pi or from inside /home/pi/MagicMirror ?

pi@raspberrypi:~ Here!

bibi

finally what i did and what did work is :)

sudo apt-get remove nodered -y
sudo apt-get remove nodejs nodejs-legacy -y
sudo apt-get remove npm -y
sudo curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node -v
npm -v