A model that play a video or mp3 file from local drive, based on a Google Assistant command ?

[sdetweil]

@alexmann well hints, see the recipes folder. a recipe takes a voice utterance and then does something.

do you have a command that will play a video?
or music?

[alexmann]

Thank you Sam very much for your reply,

Would you please explain about the recipe folder method, because I tried it many times, and nothing works,

I want to say to GA by example, Jarvis, Good morning, and Jarvis respond with that small video.

Very simple yet Can’t find a model or method to do it.

Thank you very much

Regards

[sdetweil]

@alexmann the recipes look pretty straight forward. but there is not one that does what you want.

so you have to make/invent one

of course one has know what to do when the voice command comes in
.where does the video or music come from? local disk? so you need the filename

from the web? how did that happen? was there a search?

what plays that? how do you invoke it.

[alexmann]

@sdetweil Thank you so much for your answer,

Actually, I tried, many times, but nothing worked,

Please have a look

var recipe = {
    transcriptionHooks: {
        "imBackHome": {
            pattern: "I'm back home",
            command: "playVideo"
        }
    },

    commands: {
        "playVideo": {
            shellExec: {
                exec: "vlc -f file:///home/MagicMirror/video1.mp4"
                
            }
        }
    }
};

exports.recipe = recipe;

[sdetweil]

@alexmann does the vlc command work?
and you are logged on as the user MagicMirror

[alexmann]

@sdetweil Not sure, I understand your question, the vlc doesnt work, I use ubuntu for my mirror
I just removed the username

[sdetweil]

@alexmann open a terminal window and
enter the vlc command you supplied in the recipe

does that work?

if not then it won’t work from the recipe either.

I don’t know how to play video or music from the terminal window by command, so I can’t help you there. but the recipe is how you connect ga to doing things like this.

[alexmann]

Ah, Now I uderstand , acutally yes, It open the vlc have a look

r:~/MagicMirror$ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
[0000555bf0104640] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0000555bf01a52d0] main playlist: playlist is empty

[sdetweil]

@alexmann that didn’t answer the question.

does the whole command you have in the recipe work

vlc -f file:///home/MagicMirror/video1.mp4

or the cvlc command as it suggests

[alexmann]

@sdetweil said in A model that play a video or mp3 file from local drive, based on a Google Assistant command ?:

vlc -f file:///home/MagicMirror/video1.mp4

Thank you, Sam,

Actually , It worked, the command execute the mp4 file,

[sdetweil]

@alexmann ok, then you have to work on the front side making sure the voice phrase is recognized

Jarvis (or whatever hot word you picked)
“I’m back home”

words with contractions (“I’m”) are particularly hard to match

start w something simple, “play video”

[alexmann]

Well, Finally worked, :)
here is my recipe for others to try

var recipe = {
    transcriptionHooks: {
        "imBackHome": {
            pattern: "I am back home",
            command: "playVideo"
        }
    },

    commands: {
        "playVideo": {
            shellExec: {
            exec: "vlc --play-and-exit -f /path_to_file/modules/recipe/video1.mp4",
                // This command will play the video using VLC.
            }
        }
    }
};

exports.recipe = recipe;

If you want the vlc to just play the video without exiting, just remove " --play-and-exit".

Happy mirroring,

[sdetweil]

@alexmann great news… thanks for the feedback.