MMM-GoogleAssistant autostart

sdetweil

@poopyurinal sounds like assistant is ending on its own.

When u do this manually, do you have to be in the module folder?

If you run the python3 path…/assistant.py

When u are NOT in the module folder, does it work, or give an error?

poopyurinal

I can run the command:

python3 /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant/pi/assistant.py

as long as I first run:

source /env/bin/activate

It works appropriately after running those two commands. Running the top command in this post without running the bottom command results in an error.

sdetweil

@poopyurinal ok, make a two line script to execute both commands, and use that script as the exec script in the service

poopyurinal

Sorry, can you go into a little more detail on that? How would I create that script?

sdetweil

@poopyurinal edit a new file, add the two lines to it, and save.

The do

chmod +x ????

Where ??? is the name of the file you just created

Then make that file name the name of the exec script.

poopyurinal

Do you mean a shell script? Or a python script?

sdetweil

@poopyurinal shell script

poopyurinal

In the ExecStart field of the service, what is the command I need to run before the path? My shell script is in /home/pi/testerscript.sh. What command do I need to run that?

sdetweil

@poopyurinal edit the script again and add a new 1st line

#!/bin/sh

Because it is executable, the 1st line will be checked, and if the script processor is defined, it will be used

The default is also /bin/sh

poopyurinal

I edited the script as you suggested, but it is not starting after reboot. If I run it from the command line, I get:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/testerscript.sh
/home/pi/testerscript.sh: 2: /home/pi/testerscript.sh: source: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant/pi/assistant.py”, line 25, in
import google.oauth2.credentials
ImportError: No module named ‘google’

The part after the “Traceback” is the same error I got if I tried to run the /path/to/assistant.py without first running:

source /env/bin/activate

It seems like the shell script is not running the second command within the first. If I run source /env/bin/activate, my command line is preceded by (env). Is there some way to force that within the script?