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

[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 :)

[savage_gr1nd]

@Gunwoody mmm is in modules folder inside magicmirror. Sdk is inside mmm and also inside the skill located in the root. Certs is inside mmm and skill.
Iot runs on its own. Alexa-as you need to run your three terminal executions. Then npm start magic mirror after that.
Add mmm to magicmirror config and voila. :)

[Gunwoody]

Thanks Savage - all that seems to be ok as far as i can see. I’ve got new problem now (that didn’t exist before) and i can’t seem to get to the bottom of it. When i start the wakeword engine i get this.

INFO:main: Starting Wake Word Agent
INFO:WakeWordAgent: State set to IDLE(2)
INFO:Initializing Sensory library | library name: TrulyHandsfree | library version: 5.0.0-avs.1 | model file: …/ext/resources/spot-alexa-rpi.snsr
WARNING:Library expires on: License expires on 28 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT
wakeWordAgent: pcm.c:694: snd_pcm_close: Assertion `pcm’ failed.
Aborted

[Gunwoody]

OK fixed the sound issue. So i can talk to Alexa but it doesn’t seem to invoke the Mirror at all - any ideas??

[savage_gr1nd]

@Gunwoody it only invokes mirror if you ask her to ask mirror.
Alexa, ask mirror to show me a video of…
Alexa, ask mirror to close calendar…
Etc.

[Gunwoody]

I’m missing something fundamental - I can talk to Alexa (with the three terminals running). I can start Magic Mirror but they don’t seem to be connected. If i ask the question “alexa ask mirror find snow white” on the developer console i get the correct response "“ssml”: " Yes, my Queen, showing images of snow white. "

Some where i’m missing a link?? Back to the drawing board!!