MMM-GoogleAssistant autostart

sdetweil

@poopyurinal so, does mirror app start? but assistant doesn’t work ? are you using pm2? to control Mirror 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