MMM-GoogleAssistant autostart

[sdetweil]

auto install script sets up a pm2 module to start mirror app

[poopyurinal]

yes, the mirror app starts flawlessly with all installed modules. The assistant icon appears on the mirror, but is not activated by “Ok google” unless I type the commands in my OP. I believe pm2 is controlling the Mirror autostart.

[sdetweil]

@poopyurinal ok, but if yoiu start it manually does it work?

pm2 stop MagicMirror
open a terminal window (ctrl-alt-t)
cd MagicMirror
npm start

does it all work?
I don’t know assistant.py I assume it runs in the background… and somehow talks to the module…

[sdetweil]

and with mirror running on boot, press ctrl-shit-i to open the developers window, and select the console tab, and scroll up to find any module errors

there is also a pm2 command to show its log… (I don’t use pm2 myself).

[sdetweil]

@poopyurinal said in MMM-GoogleAssistant autostart:

I know that to start the module successfully, I can enter the following 3 commands:
source env/bin/activate
cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant/pi
python3 assistant.py

you are not starting the module… you are starting a background application
that is included in the module folder

the ‘module’ only runs inside the MagicMirror environment

so, you need to create a command that does the startup…
start the py and then start MM

and then automate that

if u stop MM manually and restart it (without doing the assistant.py step) do the GA work thru mirror as u expect?

[poopyurinal]

pm2 stop MagicMirror gives me:

[PM2][ERROR] Process MagicMirror not found
┌──────┬────┬──────┬────────┬───┬─────┬──────────┐
│ Name │ id │ mode │ status │ ↺ │ cpu │ memory │
├──────┼────┼──────┼────────┼───┼─────┼──────────┤
│ mm │ 0 │ fork │ online │ 1 │ 0% │ 2.5 MB │
└──────┴────┴──────┴────────┴───┴─────┴──────────┘
Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

Any thoughts? The MagicMirror is running. If I stop it by hitting Alt and closing it via the menu bar, it automatically restarts.

[sdetweil]

@poopyurinal pm2 list

[poopyurinal]

pm2 list
┌──────┬────┬──────┬────────┬───┬─────┬──────────┐
│ Name │ id │ mode │ status │ ↺ │ cpu │ memory │
├──────┼────┼──────┼────────┼───┼─────┼──────────┤
│ mm │ 0 │ fork │ online │ 1 │ 0% │ 2.5 MB │
└──────┴────┴──────┴────────┴───┴─────┴──────────┘
Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

[sdetweil]

@poopyurinal pm2 stop mm

[poopyurinal]

pm2 stop mm
[PM2] Applying action stopProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0)
[PM2] mm ✓
┌──────┬────┬──────┬─────────┬───┬─────┬────────┐
│ Name │ id │ mode │ status │ ↺ │ cpu │ memory │
├──────┼────┼──────┼─────────┼───┼─────┼────────┤
│ mm │ 0 │ fork │ stopped │ 1 │ 0% │ 0 B │
└──────┴────┴──────┴─────────┴───┴─────┴────────┘
Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

Sorry, limited by new user restriction of one post every 120 seconds

[sdetweil]

@poopyurinal cool now follow the link i gave about creating a service that will autostart and make it start the assitant.py

I don’t understand why the MMM-GoogleAssistant module doesn’t do this… it would be so easy…

[sdetweil]

in the link it asks for ‘your service name’ make that GoogleAssistant
the command is ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modulesMMM-GoogleAssistant/python3 assistant.py’

[sdetweil]

once u create the service… make sure assistant.py is not running already

ps -ef | grep assistant 

the 1st number on the output is the process id
pi xxxx yyyy etc…
then

sudo kill -9 xxxx

then do

sudo systemctl start GoogleAssistant

then

ps -ef | grep assistant 

to insure assistant is running
then start mirror manually with npm start

if all is good, reboot

service will start the assistant.py script
and pm2 will start mirror app

[poopyurinal]

Many thanks Sam! I’ll need to take a look at your suggestions tomorrow. I appreciate the quick (immediate!) help.

[sdetweil]

@poopyurinal no problem… let us know either way

i use the assistantmk2 module… don’t need that py file

[poopyurinal]

I’ll have to look at it. Tried the MM-GA module after 3+ failures of Alexa modules. Just would like one of them to work!

[sdetweil]

@poopyurinal also use the MMM-Alexa module

[poopyurinal]

Tried and failed with MMM-Alexa. Doesn’t mean I can’t try again!

[poopyurinal]

Looking for some clarifications here. I tried Sam’s suggestion and created a GoogleAssistant.service in /etc/systemd/system. I am a little confused on the command though:

‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modulesMMM-GoogleAssistant/python3 assistant.py’

The assistant.py file is located in /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant/pi. And wouldn’t the “python3” command come first? Could someone clarify?

Then, continuing to follow this post, he suggested running:

ps -ef | grep assistant

to find the process id. However, when i try to kill that process id, is says it “No such process”. If I run the same command several times in a row, I get different process ids each time. Is it trying to run via some other pathway and retrying constantly? It wouldn’t surprise me, as I’ve tried to get this working via many methods. How can I track this down?

Thanks for your help!

[sdetweil]

@poopyurinal you are right. python3 should come first.