Advise for a voice assistant

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