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

Gunwoody

@joanaz Thanks again. I think it’s uploaded ok - not that it’s helped me get it working. I can get just about any other module running on MagicMirror but not this one. I think it’s just a case of i’m not sure what folders should be where. When i run it with the module in the config file i just get a white screen and can’t ‘alt’ out of it - Pi seems to crash. I think i’ll just have to give up as i’ve been trying for 3 days to get this running :(

joanaz

@bartalluyn is your code on Github? I’m quite interested in your Alexa Java client, it’d be great if it was a Mirror Module, so Alexa and Mirror can communicate directly without going through AWS IoT.

joanaz

@Gunwoody sorry to hear that. This is quite advanced as you have to setup AWS IoT, Lambda and Alexa skill, so it does need you to have some experiences with programming and using AWS services. I’m thinking about how to simplify this and get it to work with multiple users, but thanks for trying.

zman3

I do not get why this is not working the src.zip has a layout of folders and in the root of zip I have index.js MirrorMirror.js and package.json

but i still get

START RequestId: dbde411d-ecaa-11e6-8bd7-9b2096d559c7 Version: $LATEST
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20:28:46
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/index.js:23:14) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (
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/index.js:23:14)
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 (module.js:300:12)
at Module.require (module.js:353:17)

which looks like what it’s not finding index.js ?

Gunwoody

@joanaz I haven’t really had much of an issue with Lambda, IOT etc. It’s more the local install on the pi. I think because your instructions jump from area to area it’s easy to miss or misintrepet a step. I might just do a full clean install and start from scratch. It’s just a shame because MagicMirror itself runs perfectly with any module i try. It’s just your that is determined to thwart me lol :)

joanaz

@zman3 you don’t have certs and node_modules?

joanaz

@Gunwoody i’ve never seen another mirror module which works with a Alexa skill

zman3

yes i have those folders in the zip

joanaz

For people struggling with setting up Lambda and Alexa Skill, here’s a good visual instructions for a different Skill. Use your judgment when dealing with differences with my skill.
https://github.com/alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-calendar-reader

Here’s Amazon’s instructions for setting up a AWS IoT device, it’ll also be slightly different when you setup your own device, but it’s good enough.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-console-signin.html

savage_gr1nd

So exactly which files need to be in the zip?
And also, when testing on the lambda site I get an error about alexa-sdk not being detected… are there other steps for installation? I’ve hit a wall