MMM-AlexaPi

clumsy_ninja

@cyberphox @johnnyboy These issues are definitely AlexaPi issues you are having. If your looking for help i would post on the Alexa-pi/alexapi github or talk on the gitter mentioned above. They will be able to help you for sure as I don’t know that much about the audio, mine just seemed to work for some reason

cyberphox

I’m sure it’s probably the PS Eye mic and the usb mic you have coming (that I ordered too) will work fine. For example, when I go into aslamixer and try to hit f6 to change to the Eye to increase the volume, it crashes with an invalid argument error…

johnnyboy

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cyberphox

@johnnyboy lol…the microphone icon is back now with a slash through it and I’m not even being greeted with a hello when the Pi boots now…off to the gitter maybe!

lucallmon

@cyberphox are you using any other sound modules? AlexaPi does not work with MMM-Voice. Found that out the hard way. I had to wipe my SD card and start over.

cyberphox

Nope. no other modules…it seems the AlexaPi service is not starting…getting an error…seriously may just use my Dot…if i did’t like that damn microphone icon so much

lucallmon

@cyberphox jump on the gitter.im site. I’ll try to help you out.

cyberphox

i’m probably gonna wait until my Kinobo USB mic arrives…i know that sound work as opposed to this PS Eye

johnnyboy

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cyberphox

Ironically, I decided to reinstall it last night before bed. I had edited yaml.config last time for the device type but this time i actually selected magic mirror. It started to work again. LOL. sound was a little choppy so i changed playback from vlc to sox. Mind you I haven’t gone out to check it yet this morning…hahah

borrigan

@cyberphox hi! What do you mean when you say “I actually selected Magic Mirror”? Thanks!

clumsy_ninja

@borrigan During Alexa-Pi setup you can choose a platform. Don’t pick raspberrypi, use magicmirror regardless of where the software is running.

borrigan

@clumsy_ninja thank you! I think I found the config line and changed it to magicmirror. Still see nothing in Magic Mirror interface. I will keep testing. Still need to resolve microphone input problems :(

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j.e.f.f

@clumsy_ninja Hey I just got this working tonight, and I’m having all sorts of fun with it. Thanks for this!

I’d like to know if it’s possible to get this to directly control the MagicMirror (similar to MirrorMirrorOnTheWallSkill – is it possible to use this skill?). It’s great that I can control things like my lights and such, but I would also like to tell my Mirror who is looking at the mirror (e.g. as a fall back when Facial Recognition doesn’t work), or explicitly show/hide modules by name. Is this possible?

Would also be amazing if this could receive a notice from the Facial Recognition app to speak out the recognized user (e.g.: “Good Morning, Jeff! Here’s your view.”)

j.e.f.f

@borrigan I wasn’t able to get mine to show up in the mirror interface either, but otherwise AlexaPi was functional. In my case I needed to enable it for all users in the config:

{
  module: "MMM-AlexaPi",
  position: "lower_third",
  classes: "default everyone",   // Needed this line
  config: {
    ...
  }
},

I hope this helps!

Jeff

michael_klatt

hy,
i have Alexa from this site installed:

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-build-your-own-amazon-echo-with-a-raspberry-pi-1787726931

Is has a function and goes good.
I installed the Magic Mirror with my packages what ive done. Problem is to get both in the Mirror.

Im a Newbie, but i have an Idea:

Before the MM starts i need an Autostart File that does this:

Alexa 1: cd ~/Desktop/alexa-avs-sample-app/samples/companionService && npm start
Alexa 2: cd ~/Desktop/alexa-avs-sample-app/samples/javaclient && mvn exec:exec
Alexa 3: cd ~/Desktop/alexa-avs-sample-app/samples
cd wakeWordAgent/src && ./wakeWordAgent -e kitt_ai

Then i have Alexa in the Back and the Mirrors starts with PM2!

Is that right???

Can anyone help me or was my Mind wrong.? Thanks Michael

lucallmon

@michael_klatt that’s all good and well, but do you have a script to auto launch at startup that loafs all three of those individual scripts? Nope. That’s what AlaexaPi does. It just loads automatically.

borrigan

Hi @j-e-f-f ! Thanks a lot for your response. I tried adding the “classes” line, but still nothing shown in the mirror interface. Alexa responds, but it would be great to see the status in the Mirror. Really weird.

Have a great day.

borrigan

@j.e.f.f I found a solution. It seems that the font-awesome style sheet is not being loaded by default, so the microphone icon does not show.

I edited the index.html file located at the root folder of the MagicMirror installation, and added the following line:

< !-- custom.css is loaded by the loader.js to make sure it's loaded after the module css files. -->
< link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vendor/node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" >

I added a space between the < so it could appear here, apparently the editor won’t allow me to paste these kind of lines directly.

Hope this helps.