Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall - Alexa voice control to hide/show modules and display text/images
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@savage_gr1nd there’s no text on screen when you turn on/off module. can you get display text or display image commands to work? right now the text/image/video will remain on the screen, the video will be played in a loop, but you can simply add a timeout to hide this module after few seconds. The ‘next up’ Youtube video idea is also cool, do you think you can implement it yourself?
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Just out of curiosity, which cities are you guys in? I’m in New York.
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@joanaz I’m in California.
And I could try if I can ever figure out why I can’t get video to pop up in the first place lol and no I can’t get images to work either. That tests error in alexa skill Console so I’m digging into you tube first. Which tests positive.
I say find a video of… and she responds and puts the text on screen. But the url window doesn’t show. -
I still didn’t get mine to work, I haven’t tried again to be honest…
I am in Spain, if that makes a difference.
I was trying out other options for voice control like Jasper, etc; no luck so far.
I might come back to this module tonight and try to get it running.
Should I try to set it up for the European region that supports Alexa skills? (which is Ireland afaik)
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@Journeytojah I think the region is why some people couldn’t get it to work. Right now, Lambda only works with US East regions. So better use US East for every AWS services needed here.
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@joanaz said in MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall - Alexa voice control to hide/show modules and display text/images:
@Journeytojah I think the region is why some people couldn’t get it to work. Right now, Lambda only works with US East regions. So better use US East for every AWS services needed here.
I had US East selected, but maybe because I am not physically located in the US it somehow gets blocked by some ISP somewhere along the way.
To me thats what it looked like, a connectivity issue.
And I know Alexa Skills with Lambda are only supported in some regions, but that includes one European one, the one in Ireland, so ill try that one.
Anyway, after seeing how impossible it is to work with Jaster/So.nus and so on, I will go back and give this another try…
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@Journeytojah no that’s not it. I’m in the west coast and I got my lambda and skill to link. Only thing I don’t have working are the Google api and youtube api
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@Journeytojah ok, remember to change the region setting in MirrorMirror.js in both folders. (line 16 below)
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@joanaz so no idea on the YouTube problem? Like I said. I know it’s hitting the api. It has a success message in Google console. Just nothing pops up in MagicMirror itself except the text.
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@savage_gr1nd ok, so there are few places you can check.
- the skill should console log the api response, so check it in Lambda. see whether ‘items[0].id.videoId’ is still the right way to get the video ID
- use AWS IoT to check whether that video ID is published to channel “MagicMirror:new-video”
- check your mirror module, see whether it received that video ID.
