Voice and Touch control modules

sdetweil

@sankum there are currently no good working voice modules for MagicMirror

touch is limited. MagicMirror was designed as an output only information panel, on a device with no touch support.

there are a couple modules that provide some touch support
search the 3rd party list, but nothing really MagicMirror controlling. maybe swipe to change logical pages w mmm-pages or carousel
or more recently
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19678/mmm-chores-manage-and-keep-track-of-your-household-chores

MagicMirror runs in a web browser, so if your display supports touch, its possible to write more modules that support touch

Ashaman

@sankum
I searched for the same, but did not find anything that worked for me (not saying there is not anything out there, just did not fit my need).

I have a 43" touch mirror (repurposed fitness smart mirror), and currently I have a WIP solution with a custom browser coded in python, that only display a menu icon in the top. In it I can open a menu for refreshing the page, restart the Docker container my MM is in, open and edit the config, git-pull any modules etc.
I can also predefine the tabs is should load, so main tab is MM-url, second is Homey-url, so I can control my Homey devices from the screen.

I also have a custom (not released) module for showing “MM-tabs” with icons in the bottom of the screen, based on the MMM-Carousel module.
This way I can swipe “pages”, or just click a tab and it switches to that “page”.
Tripple tapping a tab deactivate the tab If i dont want to show it.

The repos for this is currently privat, as they are still WIP, but I’m probably going to publish them at some point.

sankum

Thanks for your feedback. Looking forward to your Touchscreen module demo.!
I have been looking into MMM-Jarvis-Voice-Control. Have installed it but not gotten it to work. The documentation for installation and plugins is not great.
Anybody else had experience with this module? Is it worth pursuing to make it work?
Thanks

sdetweil

@sankum we had a really good google assistant, but the author left and took all his modules down.
not much work was done on others for quite a while

sankum

Hi Sam,

I clones a MMM-GoogleAssistant. When I run it it complains about speaker module not found:

[ERROR] Error when loading MMM-GoogleAssistant: Cannot find module ‘speaker’
Require stack:

/home/sankum/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant/node_helper.js
/home/sankum/MagicMirror/js/app.js
/home/sankum/MagicMirror/js/electron.js

Is there something missing or I need to install something else? Thanks.

sdetweil

@sankum where is that module sourced from

git remote -v

in the module folder

sankum

Hi Sam,

Following is the source:

sankum@rpi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant $ git remote -v
origin https://github.com/jeffmur/MMM-GoogleAssistant.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/jeffmur/MMM-GoogleAssistant.git (push)
sankum@rpi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant $

sdetweil

@sankum yeh, I don’t know.

speaker still exists
https://www.npmjs.com/package/speaker

the module was last updated 4 years ago, so who knows…

sankum

Thanks. But clearly something is outdated? Snippets of error messages below. Does not install. Is it simply old version or something can be done to salvage or anu other alternative? Thanks.

://eslint.org/version-support for other options.
npm error code 1
npm error path /home/sankum/MagicMirror/modules/node-speaker/node_modules/speaker
npm error command failed
npm error command sh -c node-gyp rebuild
npm error make: Entering directory ‘/home/sankum/MagicMirror/modules/node-speaker/node_modules/speaker/build’
npm error CC(target) Release/obj.target/output/deps/mpg123/src/output/alsa.o
npm error make: Leaving directory ‘/home/sankum/MagicMirror/modules/node-speaker/node_modules/speaker/build’
npm error gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm error gyp info using node-gyp@11.0.0
npm error gyp info using node@22.16.0 | linux | arm64
…

sdetweil

@sankum the working alternative no longer exists.

there is no author commitment to maintain their module contributions. if you care/want/can resurrect a module, more power to you.

here is the story on Alexa
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/16069/alexa-implementations-now-more-difficult-and-some-features-will-stop-working