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

joanaz

@zman3 it’s a MagicMirror Module, so same way to install it like any other modules. But you also need to set up Alexa, AWS IoT service, and my Alexa skill that complements it.

in_a_days

I’m very excited to test this over the weekend. I presently have AlexaPi and MM running concurrently. I’ve struggled to get MMM-AlexaPi to communicate with AlexaPi, but wow this looks a lot more expansive. I’m new to AWS IoT, but your instructions are easy to follow. Great work!

joanaz

@in_a_days Thank you!

zman3

do you know if it will work with this ? https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app

thanks

joanaz

@zman3 yeah it does, it also works with https://echosim.io/welcome?next=%2F

zman3

@joanaz cool so I know nothing about this stuff when I’m getting the aws-iot-device-sdk do I want the java version or javascript?

joanaz

@zman3 you just need to do “npm install”, then the package.json will install the sdk (assuming you have npm installed on ur computer). It’s the JavaScript version.

schlachtkreuzer6

will it work with a echo dot? sending comands to the mirror?

lucallmon

@joanaz Do you have a video demo of this running? This may be pretty close to what I’m looking for on my MM.

Here is my module request page: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1577/alexa-responses-displayed-on-mirror/6

Do you have to say “Mirror, mirror, on the wall” to activate it? Does it display the words that it says on the screen along with any pictures as if you were using an Amazon Fire TV stick?

joanaz

@schlachtkreuzer6 yes, but you need to install my Alexa skill

joanaz

@lucallmon I changed my Alexa wake word to “Mirror mirror” instead of “Alexa”, and my Skill’s invocation name is “on the wall”, but you can change them to whatever you want. It displays the text you say after the command word “say”. Look at my sample utterances for the commands you can use. It doesn’t show text for other Alexa skills or Alexa general commands. But you can change my Alexa skill to do that.

zman3

welll I just cannot seem to get this to work she always says she doesnt understand I think it tried just once because she said there was a error with the skill that one time. :/
any ideas of what i can look for?

zman3

well i guess one thing i didnt do is in your directions it says
open MirrorMirror.js, replace the keyPath, certPath, and host to your own

where am I getting the host information from?

lucallmon

@zman3 from the Lambda site maybe?

joanaz

@zman3 From AWS IoT, the instructions are in the readme in my repo. You also need to install my Alexa skill, by following the instructions in that repo.

zman3

I have those installed still not seeing where i would get a host to put in there .
if I say alexa, on the wall. she says theres a problem with the requested skills respones the lambda cloud watch error shows the following

17:21:45
START RequestId: 931bbc00-e710-11e6-b7a7-b3bf469e814d Version: $LATEST
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17:21:45
Unable to import module 'index': Error at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object. (/var/task/MirrorMirror.js:1:76) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.
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17:21:45
END RequestId: 931bbc00-e710-11e6-b7a7-b3bf469e814d
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17:21:45
REPORT RequestId: 931bbc00-e710-11e6-b7a7-b3bf469e814d Duration: 36.31 ms Billed Duration: 100 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 17 MB
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17:21:45
START RequestId: 9342f35b-e710-11e6-872c-f9454aa4f261 Version: $LATEST
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17:21:45
Unable to import module 'index': Error at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object. (/var/task/MirrorMirror.js:1:76) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (modul
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17:21:45
END RequestId: 9342f35b-e710-11e6-872c-f9454aa4f261
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17:21:45
REPORT RequestId: 9342f35b-e710-11e6-872c-f9454aa4f261 Duration: 0.61 ms Billed Duration: 100 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 17 MB

zman3

so another thing in your skill code theres
var MirrorMirror = require(‘./MirrorMirror’); does that expect the MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall module folder to be called MirrorMirror because mines call MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall

joanaz

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Journeytojah

I can’t get the module to work, I get this error:

{ Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND data.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com data.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:8883
    at errnoException (dns.js:28:10)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:76:26)
  code: 'ENOTFOUND',
  errno: 'ENOTFOUND',
  syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
  hostname: 'data.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
  host: 'data.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
  port: 8883 }

lucallmon

@joanaz I really want to get excited about this but the install info is confusing at best. Could you please post a video demo of how it’s working currently and a more step-by-step installation guide? This sound like exactly what I’m looking for, but… I just don’t need more info.