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

artifactdev

@joanaz Can you provide a how to or screencast how to get this working with an echo dot? For me it’s not clear how to connect the module with the lambda function which will be triggered by the skill.

joanaz

@zman3 you copied your certs folder to the mirror module folder? check your terminal to see any error messages

joanaz

@artifactdev that’s what AWS IoT device gateway is for. Just setup the skill and the mirror module as instructed

zman3

went through redid the awsiot set up did the start.sh copied the certs to the certs folder in the magic mirror module put those in the skill and re uploaded the zip to lambda still get nothing showing on the mirror

lucallmon

@zman3 It’s because there’s no guide. It’s just figure it out yourself. You know this isn’t a well-organized module when you look at how many posts/replies are in it.

joanaz

@lucallmon lol, what do you mean there’s no guide? my guides have a total of 250 lines. anyways, I tried to help you guys setup and figuring out your errors, but clearly my module is out of your league. so come back when you have more dev skills.

joanaz

I just made another Alexa skill and Magic Mirror module for simple note taking, you can find them here: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1824/mmm-notetaker-a-module-that-displays-your-notes-stored-by-the-alexa-skill-note-taker

d3r

Hey @joanaz thanks for the awesome module. The module works pretty well. Also tried the image search and youtube which work very well. Main issue so far is I can’t turn off the video without closing all modules. I’ll look into that tomorrow.

joanaz

@d3r yeah! awesome! you just need to tell my module to close my module

lucallmon

@joanaz Where are your guides? The README.md is the only file I have to go on from your github page.

d3r

@lucallmon said in MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall - Alexa voice control to hide/show modules and display text/images:

@joanaz Where are your guides? The README.md is the only file I have to go on from your github page.

There are two github repos. One is for the alexa skill and the other is for the module. You need to check both.

lucallmon

@d3r I see that, and that is my problem. There is no guide on how to install it. If you want people to use it, help them install it. Sounds like a great product that I would love to have, but it’s not user friendly.

janner6

I’m working my way through the setup of the AWS IoT. I’m up to stage 11 on the walkthrough where it says:
“11.copy all your credential files, then go to your local copy of this repo, and paste them inside the certs folder (which is inside the src folder)”
Where do I find the credentials that need to be copied?

joanaz

@janner6 those are the files you downloaded from the last step

Journeytojah

Just a quick and final update.

Considering the recent revelations made by Wikileaks #Vault7, I have decided to stay away from Alexa; at least for now.

Already found two possible alternatives, I will not compromise my or anyone else’s privacy.

Best of luck,

elblogbruno

@Journeytojah which are they?

Journeytojah

@elblogbruno You can find them here: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/index.html

And you can read about what this means pretty much anywhere online.

Also see this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGFp2tUweI .

PS: for a long time I’ve been an advocate of security on IoT devices, shortly after the realease of Shodan serach engine; I cannot stress enough how important it is to keep your devices safe from prying eyes or ears, or keep them from being part of a botnet.

I will not hijack this thread and @joanaz’s work any more. Great job for the module, it’s just not what i need :)

d3r

@Journeytojah I see what you’re saying.
The alexa devices sold by amazon are always listening but the code amazon have shared on their website is not. The alexa version available on their github is only activated on button press or can be voice ativated through snowboy or sensory. My understanding is that snowboy works offline and doesn’t require an internet connection. So yes, alexa could be spying on you but all alexa devices might not be. I am 90% sure mine isn’t but I could be wrong.

elblogbruno

@Journeytojah I meant the other Assistants like alexa you talked about?
But thanks for the info!

romain

Hello. I have follow the guide multiple time now. At first I had trouble to get an answer from the Alexa skill (turned out it was because of the region, choosing us east Virginia wasn’t doing the trick for me. I needed to creat my lambda as eu ireland and to change the region value to eu-west-1 within the MirrorMirror.js in both folder).

Now my issue is that nothing is happening even though there is no error what so ever in the log.
I read this entire thread so I may have an idea on what the issue is but I rather ask to be sure.
Is the module isn’t enough by itself ? do I to install some third party thing in order to use it ? (I saw “AlexaPi” mention here and there). Is it why I can’t use this module ?