MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall - Alexa voice control to hide/show modules and display text/images

zman3

That’s the error I always get also. I have the the contents of the folder zipped not the folder I left the keys as MagicMirror also and have index.handler selected.

joanaz

@savage_gr1nd yeah, but it requires a physical pushbutton. I’m using AlexaPi with my own wake word, so I can activate Alexa by saying “Mirror mirror”.

savage_gr1nd

@joanaz ahhhh. That sucks. I’m running wake word also. I just liked the idea of not having to run it in terminal. Then run mirror. Would have made rebooting simple and flawless. Lol

Journeytojah

@joanaz @savage_gr1nd I had my certs both as MagicMirror and other names, made sure everything in the code is correct every time I changed anything.

It just wont take it.

I will go around this another way, I’m starting to lose interest in the whole tts concept and will go with something simpler using text :)

joanaz

@savage_gr1nd you can setup AlexaPi to run automatically after reboot

joanaz

@Journeytojah @zman3 see whether this thread helps you.
https://github.com/lorenwest/node-config/issues/275

savage_gr1nd

@joanaz nice. I’ll look at switching over after work.
You need to work on the YouTube functions lol

zman3

I tried all that last time you posted it with the exeption of process.env.NODE_CONFIG_DIR=‘/var/task/config’;

Journeytojah

@joanaz been there, tried it… nothing worked…

joanaz

@zman3 no, that’s not the point, he uses the config library, we don’t. They mentioned some good points, such as “OSX makes node_modules readable only by the user so AWS cannot read it”, so you need to check the permission of your node_modules folder. And also make sure the node_modules inside the zip file is not empty.

savage_gr1nd

@Journeytojah don’t sudo anything in this git. I made that mistake also.

Journeytojah

@savage_gr1nd will try, i can imagine i had done that without realizing…

I like the response time of alexa, and would love to get this integrated, but like i said with less talking and more text.

Will try again some time and update…

Gunwoody

I’m just revisiting this project as i was getting nowhere. I think i am now even more confused. Can someone tell me ‘where’ the certs folder needs copying to? Is it into the MagicMirror folder or is it somewhere else??

Thanks anyone :)

lucallmon

@Gunwoody I gave up on it too. The git is not user friendly and there’s no step by step guide. Pit that together and I’ll come back.

Gunwoody

@lucallmon I’m just getting nowhere. I can setup MagicMirror2. I can configure it and get it to run no problem. Where it gets fuzzy is
a) where does MMM-Mirroronthewall module go - is it inside the modules folder of MagicMirror2?
b) Where do you run the aws-iot-device-sdk ?
c) Where does the certs folder go?

Just a simple step guide would be ace - anyone??

joanaz

@Gunwoody @lucallmon sorry, you do have to have a little of programming experience and experience of using AWS services to setup this module. I do have a step by step guide in the companion Alexa skill repo, but it would still be hard for people without any software experience.

Gunwoody

I haven’t had any trouble setting up AWS/Lambda - i just can’t get it running loxcally - can you just answer the above questions for me.
Thanks

Gunwoody

I’ve also got Alexa-avs running with sensory wakeword engine - so i’m not a complete idiot :)

Gunwoody

@Gunwoody Hold the front page - i may have cracked it :)

Gunwoody

@Gunwoody OK - getting closer.

Upload of zip to Lambda finally worked ok.
I can now enter Utterances in the service simulator on developer console and get a Lambda response
I can see the response properly logged in Cloudwatch logs with no errors

But i must be missing something fundamental because when i load Magic Mirror ir run perfectly but doesn’t seem to be listening for the Alexa wake words etc.

Oh well getting closer all the time :)