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

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 ?

arthurross

I got it partly working. It’s just not showing anything on the mirror. I may have sudo npm installed it.

pepemujica

Hi @joanaz !
The module looks great! Thanks for developing it.
Could you help me with this?
I’m stuck over this step:
0_1495801708131_upload-97f2b27a-03b5-4725-adda-277d52f00d15
Can’t find the way to install the dependencies.

manojjena78

@savage_gr1nd - Do you able to make it work?? I have an issue where the Magic mirror and Alexa module does not interact each other, but individually works fine. I can ask Alexa- then I get answer. My magic mirror also works fine. But when I say Alexa show me video of X , nothing happens and no text message is shown on the Mirror. Also when I test Simulator with hello then I get a response back. But when I use log work , it gives error . ("The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.). Anyone please guide.
Thanks,
MK

torresfm

Hi! @joanaz, @savage_gr1nd , @Journeytojah

I’ve been trying to get this skill to work, but I’m stuck with a Lambda error that doesn’t really give me much to work on. My AWS IoT dashboard does show successful connections and I’ve followed every step in the readme to a T (I’ve even read this most of this thread to go make sure I didn’t make the common mistakes), but when I try to run a test on the Lambda function I get this error below. Thanks for the help in advance!

{
  "errorMessage": "Invalid connect options supplied.",
  "errorType": "Error",
  "stackTrace": []
}

Log output:

START RequestId: 4b366259-601e-11e7-899b-8dd5d86aa5dd Version: $LATEST
module initialization error: Error
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
END RequestId: 4b366259-601e-11e7-899b-8dd5d86aa5dd
REPORT RequestId: 4b366259-601e-11e7-899b-8dd5d86aa5dd	Duration: 0.37 ms	Billed Duration: 100 ms 	Memory Size: 128 MB	Max Memory Used: 33 MB

I copied and pasted the Lambda request from the Alexa Skill config simulator for the test in Lambda: (I’ve redacted the id keys)


Request:
{
  "session": {
    "sessionId": "SessionId.xxxx",
    "application": {
      "applicationId": "amzn1.ask.skill.xxxx"
    },
    "attributes": {},
    "user": {
      "userId": "amzn1.ask.account.xxxx"
    },
    "new": true
  },
  "request": {
    "type": "IntentRequest",
    "requestId": "EdwRequestId.xxxx",
    "locale": "en-US",
    "timestamp": "2017-07-03T18:55:38Z",
    "intent": {
      "name": "MirrorMirrorHelloIntent",
      "slots": {}
    }
  },
  "version": "1.0"
}

Response:
The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.

edit:

I think I found a few areas in aws-iot-device-sdk in device/index.js where the error is coming from, but not sure how to fix it.

   if (isUndefined(options) ||
      Object.keys(options).length === 0) {
      throw new Error(exceptions.INVALID_CONNECT_OPTIONS);
 
if (isUndefined(options.host)) {
      throw new Error(exceptions.INVALID_CONNECT_OPTIONS);
   }

if (!isUndefined(options.host)) {
         var pattern =/[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.iot\.([a-z]+-[a-z]+-[0-9]+)\.amazonaws\.com/;
         var region = pattern.exec(options.host);
         if (region === null) {
            console.log('Host endpoint is not valid');
            throw new Error(exceptions.INVALID_CONNECT_OPTIONS);
         } else {
            options.region = region[1];
         }
      }

My folder struct:

.
+--certs/
|     +----keys_sample.json
|     +----keys_sample.json
|     +----MagicMirror.cert.pem
|     +----MagicMirror.private.key
|     +----MagicMirror.public.key
|     +----root-CA.crt
|
+----index.js
+----MirrorMirror.js
+----node_modules/
+----package.json

The index.js and mirrormirror.js are stock, I haven’t changed a thing.

torresfm

I found the issue, please look at my other ports for the solution. Thanks.

dugemaniac

@joanaz hi Joanaz, sorry to bother you. first of all, thanks for this great module. Need your help, i got the same error. skills works, i can see card in alexa app, but it didnt shown on MM.
I look at terminal and it said

Attempt to connect to AWS 
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
{ Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:function:AlfaMirror arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:function:AlfaMirror:8883
    at errnoException (dns.js:28:10)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:73:26)
  code: 'ENOTFOUND',
  errno: 'ENOTFOUND',
  syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
  hostname: 'arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxx:function:AlfaMirror',
  host: 'arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxxxx:function:AlfaMirror',
  port: 8883 }
MagicMirror will not quit

Kindly need your help. Cheers :)

dugemaniac

@joanaz found out the problem, my ISP block port 8883, using other ISP works flawlessly. Thanks alot for such a great module for MM. Cheers have a great day
@torresfm Thank too for the solution over end point not found. Cheers

SpaceKitten

@savage_gr1nd Got The Same Error “Unable To Upload Index File” ,So My Question Is While Installing Dependencies In /src Directory I Performed "sudo npm For sdk and kit So While Testing The Skill Its Showing Me Error In Lambda Response And In Lambda Logs Its Saying “Index File” Error Mentioned In This Post. So Is “Sudo Npm” The Cause? Because u Said It Blocks Amazon Access. And i Did The Zip Procedure Perfectly. Please Guide. ThankYou

joe84maiden

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richland007

@d3r Hi there could you please help me out to install this module fully if you have time. i really need to have this figured out.
I have AlexaPi running fine i also have the Lamda and the Alexa skill installed the mirror responds with “Hello my queen how can i help you” but when i ask of anything that is related to this module such as turn on or off a MM module or display text or images it says “There was a problem with the requested skills response” here is what comes in the log file at CloudWatch on AWS Lamda

After some searching around the intenet the majority of them say that i need to add this ;

var handlers = {
    'Unhandled': function () {
        this.emit(':ask', HelpMessage, HelpMessage);
    },

But where and why why do we have to mess around with index.js file

anyhow any help will be greatly appreciated

Denis

richland007

@savage_gr1nd can you please help us get this going also ?? You seem like you are the only one who has it set up other than the developer that is not responding . I have to have this module
please look at where we are at right now the mirror says hello my queen ho can i help you but anything there after we get a message that something is wrong with your skills response
where is the trouble lying??? any help will be greatly appreciated here is a link at our conversation in the forums https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/8569/mmm-mirrormirroronthewall-installation-issue/36
thank you in advance
Denis

Vauxdvihl

Is this also working with “german language / commands”?
Thanks