Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MMM-AlexaPi
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Hi everyone,
I am very new to this forum and have spent the last couple of days reading through various posts in order to familiarise myself with MagicMirror2, modules, setup etc.After I managed to install the MagicMirror2 and even got the motiondetection with camera running I wanted to give alexa integration a shot.
I installed AlexaPi on my Raspberry Pi 3 to use it with a USB microphone (the little kinobo one). When not running magic mirror alexa talks to me and replies to simple questions. AlexaPi works!
But when I run MagicMirror with the MMM-AlexaPi module all I get is the crossed out microphone so that Alexa is not working anymore.
I searched the Forum but havent found a solution yet. Anyone know how to solve this?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
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Hi everyone, heres to report that I was successful.
In a nutshell i did exactly what @lucallmon recommended but for others to follow my procedures in order to fix this issue i will go step by step.Initially I had installed AlexaPi on the raspberry pi 3 and during the installation process i was asked to name the platform. Since its a pi i selected “raspberrypi” which (looking back now) seemed to have caused the issue.
However as a first step I changed the Output handler from “vlc” to “sox” to see whether that would do the trick:
I opened the console and typed in
Sudo nano /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yamlUnder the 4th paragraph there is the line “playback_handler: “vlc””
I changed “vlc” to read “sox”
(At this stage i saved, restarted and noticed that i could run magic mirror and alexa would also respond but the mic icon was still crossed out so i went back to config.yaml again and continued as follows)
Furthermore the device named in the config file was still “raspberrypi” and i wanted to change that too.
So wherever I saw the words "device: “raspberrypi” i changed that simply to “device: “magicmirror””
I changed 4 entries in total:
- In the “sound” paragraph in the very beginning (line 3 of the paragraph),
- in the paragraph following the playback_handler (line 4 of the paragraph ) “# output device:…”
- 2 paragraphs below that (line 1 of the paragraph ) "# some device:…#
- and finally towards the bottom theres a paragraph called “Platform” (line 2 of the paragraph )
After changing those lines I hit ctrl, x confirmed to save the file with yes and confirmed the file name with enter.
I rebooted the pi and started up magic mirror and now everything is working!!!
One thing to note though is that the changing from “vlc” to “sox” in my case caused alexa not to greet me with “hello” upon startup anymore. But since everything else seems to be working now I can live with that.
Hope this helps everyone who encounters a similar problem. Thanks again for all the tips!
Best regards / Dave
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For what its worth, I have posted the log below. I cannot find anything wrong with it.
Best regards/ Dave
main.js:408 Initializing MagicMirror. translator.js:182 Loading core translation file: translations/en.json translator.js:204 Loading core translation fallback file: translations/en.json loader.js:182 Load script: modules/MMM-AlexaPi//MMM-AlexaPi.js module.js:407 Check MagicMirror version for module 'MMM-AlexaPi' - Minimum version: 2.0.0 - Current version: 2.1.0 module.js:409 Version is ok! module.js:415 Module registered: MMM-AlexaPi loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: MMM-AlexaPi loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: MMM-AlexaPi loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: MMM-AlexaPi loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: MMM-AlexaPi loader.js:182 Load script: modules/motiondetector//motiondetector.js module.js:415 Module registered: motiondetector loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: motiondetector loader.js:182 Load script: modules/motiondetector//diff-cam-engine.js loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: motiondetector loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: motiondetector loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: motiondetector loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/alert//alert.js module.js:415 Module registered: alert loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: alert loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/alert//classie.js loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/alert//modernizr.custom.js loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/alert//notificationFx.js loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: alert loader.js:192 Load stylesheet: modules/default/alert//ns-default.css loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: alert translator.js:155 alert - Load translation fallback: translations/en.json loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: alert loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/updatenotification//updatenotification.js module.js:415 Module registered: updatenotification loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: updatenotification loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: updatenotification loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: updatenotification loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: updatenotification loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/clock//clock.js module.js:415 Module registered: clock loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: clock loader.js:182 Load script: vendor/moment/moment-with-locales.js loader.js:182 Load script: vendor/moment/moment-timezone.js loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: clock loader.js:192 Load stylesheet: modules/default/clock//clock_styles.css loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: clock loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: clock loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/calendar//calendar.js module.js:415 Module registered: calendar loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: calendar loader.js:227 File already loaded: moment.js loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: calendar loader.js:192 Load stylesheet: modules/default/calendar//calendar.css loader.js:192 Load stylesheet: vendor/font-awesome-4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: calendar loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: calendar loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/compliments//compliments.js module.js:415 Module registered: compliments loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: compliments loader.js:227 File already loaded: moment.js loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: compliments loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: compliments loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: compliments loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/currentweather//currentweather.js module.js:415 Module registered: currentweather loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: currentweather loader.js:227 File already loaded: moment.js loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: currentweather loader.js:192 Load stylesheet: vendor/weather-icons/css/weather-icons.css loader.js:192 Load stylesheet: modules/default/currentweather//currentweather.css loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: currentweather loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: currentweather loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/weatherforecast//weatherforecast.js module.js:415 Module registered: weatherforecast loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: weatherforecast loader.js:227 File already loaded: moment.js loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: weatherforecast loader.js:227 File already loaded: weather-icons.css loader.js:192 Load stylesheet: modules/default/weatherforecast//weatherforecast.css loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: weatherforecast loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: weatherforecast loader.js:182 Load script: modules/default/newsfeed//newsfeed.js module.js:415 Module registered: newsfeed loader.js:152 Bootstrapping module: newsfeed loader.js:227 File already loaded: moment.js loader.js:157 Scripts loaded for: newsfeed loader.js:159 Styles loaded for: newsfeed loader.js:161 Translations loaded for: newsfeed loader.js:192 Load stylesheet: css/custom.css MMM-AlexaPi.js:22 Starting module: MMM-AlexaPi motiondetector.js:26 Starting module: motiondetector alert.js:150 Starting module: alert updatenotification.js:10 Start updatenotification clock.js:38 Starting module: clock calendar.js:63 Starting module: calendar compliments.js:111 Starting module: compliments currentweather.js:89 Starting module: currentweather weatherforecast.js:87 Starting module: weatherforecast newsfeed.js:50 Starting module: newsfeed main.js:426 All modules started! module.js:117 motiondetector received a system notification: ALL_MODULES_STARTED module.js:117 clock received a system notification: ALL_MODULES_STARTED module.js:117 calendar received a system notification: ALL_MODULES_STARTED module.js:117 newsfeed received a system notification: ALL_MODULES_STARTED module.js:117 motiondetector received a system notification: DOM_OBJECTS_CREATED module.js:117 clock received a system notification: DOM_OBJECTS_CREATED module.js:117 calendar received a system notification: DOM_OBJECTS_CREATED module.js:117 newsfeed received a system notification: DOM_OBJECTS_CREATED module.js:135 updatenotification is suspended. module.js:135 currentweather is suspended. module.js:135 weatherforecast is suspended. module.js:142 currentweather is resumed. MMM-AlexaPi.js:34 MMM-AlexaPi received a module notification: CURRENTWEATHER_DATA from sender: currentweather module.js:115 motiondetector received a module notification: CURRENTWEATHER_DATA from sender: currentweather module.js:115 clock received a module notification: CURRENTWEATHER_DATA from sender: currentweather module.js:115 calendar received a module notification: CURRENTWEATHER_DATA from sender: currentweather module.js:115 newsfeed received a module notification: CURRENTWEATHER_DATA from sender: currentweather MMM-AlexaPi.js:34 MMM-AlexaPi received a module notification: CALENDAR_EVENTS from sender: calendar module.js:115 motiondetector received a module notification: CALENDAR_EVENTS from sender: calendar module.js:115 clock received a module notification: CALENDAR_EVENTS from sender: calendar module.js:115 newsfeed received a module notification: CALENDAR_EVENTS from sender: calendar motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 module.js:142 weatherforecast is resumed. motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 motiondetector.js:71 score:0 MMM-AlexaPi.js:34 MMM-AlexaPi received a module notification: CALENDAR_EVENTS from sender: calendar module.js:115 motiondetector received a module notification: CALENDAR_EVENTS from sender: calendar module.js:115 clock received a module notification: CALENDAR_EVENTS from sender: calendar module.js:115 newsfeed received a module notification: CALENDAR_EVENTS from sender: calendar motiondetector.js:71 score:0 -
@Davepre ask for help here: https://gitter.im/alexa-pi/Lobby
These guys helped me. I recommend installing v1.4, instead of the current 1.5. Then during installation, install it as magicmirror instead of raspberrypi. After installation, open the config.yaml file and change the output handler from vlc to sox. -
@lucallmon Thanks for the recommendation! I will give it a try and report back!
Best regards / David
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@johnnyboy I will report back once I got the chance to test it out tonight. I am still stuck at work but hope to have positive news still later on.
Best regards / David
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Hi everyone, heres to report that I was successful.
In a nutshell i did exactly what @lucallmon recommended but for others to follow my procedures in order to fix this issue i will go step by step.Initially I had installed AlexaPi on the raspberry pi 3 and during the installation process i was asked to name the platform. Since its a pi i selected “raspberrypi” which (looking back now) seemed to have caused the issue.
However as a first step I changed the Output handler from “vlc” to “sox” to see whether that would do the trick:
I opened the console and typed in
Sudo nano /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yamlUnder the 4th paragraph there is the line “playback_handler: “vlc””
I changed “vlc” to read “sox”
(At this stage i saved, restarted and noticed that i could run magic mirror and alexa would also respond but the mic icon was still crossed out so i went back to config.yaml again and continued as follows)
Furthermore the device named in the config file was still “raspberrypi” and i wanted to change that too.
So wherever I saw the words "device: “raspberrypi” i changed that simply to “device: “magicmirror””
I changed 4 entries in total:
- In the “sound” paragraph in the very beginning (line 3 of the paragraph),
- in the paragraph following the playback_handler (line 4 of the paragraph ) “# output device:…”
- 2 paragraphs below that (line 1 of the paragraph ) "# some device:…#
- and finally towards the bottom theres a paragraph called “Platform” (line 2 of the paragraph )
After changing those lines I hit ctrl, x confirmed to save the file with yes and confirmed the file name with enter.
I rebooted the pi and started up magic mirror and now everything is working!!!
One thing to note though is that the changing from “vlc” to “sox” in my case caused alexa not to greet me with “hello” upon startup anymore. But since everything else seems to be working now I can live with that.
Hope this helps everyone who encounters a similar problem. Thanks again for all the tips!
Best regards / Dave
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@johnnyboy i reinstalled the module and selected MagicMirror as the device and its been working since. I’ll be switching to my Kinobo USB mic this weekend…
Full time Dad, DJ and entertainer and lover of technology.
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Solid! Good job guys!
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Good morning guys,
a quick question for everyone who managed to get this to work. How is the performance when leaving the mirror on for a couple of hours?I havent had the time to properly test it yet, but yesterday night I was under the impression that the MMM-AlexaPi module is quite a heavy hitter performance wise. I use a raspberry pi 3 and don’t feel like I overloaded it (only default modules + mmm-alexapi, motion detection and mmm-uklivebusinfo as 3rd party ones). But the newsticker got stuck after ten minutes and I was unable to close or alt+tab out of magic mirror. Again, I havent tested it properly yet since I didnt have the time, just wondering whether you experienced similar slow-downs.
Best regards / Dave
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@Davepre If you lost the “hello” at the beginning, you might be able to change back to ‘vlc’ as playback_handler and see if that works. I’ve had the best results with ‘sox’, however, I’m currently running on v1.4 with vlc as my handler and it’s working great. I get my flash briefing, I get music access from TuneIn and iHeartRadio. It’s almost as good as my Dot that I have in the kitchen.
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@Davepre said in MMM-AlexaPi:
Good morning guys,
a quick question for everyone who managed to get this to work. How is the performance when leaving the mirror on for a couple of hours?I havent had the time to properly test it yet, but yesterday night I was under the impression that the MMM-AlexaPi module is quite a heavy hitter performance wise. I use a raspberry pi 3 and don’t feel like I overloaded it (only default modules + mmm-alexapi, motion detection and mmm-uklivebusinfo as 3rd party ones). But the newsticker got stuck after ten minutes and I was unable to close or alt+tab out of magic mirror. Again, I havent tested it properly yet since I didnt have the time, just wondering whether you experienced similar slow-downs.
Best regards / Dave
Every once in a while the mirror sticks but not often. I’ve been running AlexaPi from the start. Usually I just CTRL+Q to restart the mirror or I reboot. I have a reboot button on the side of my mirror. see my setup here. I also have a monitor off button. I have an old LCD monitor that get very hot and overheats, turning off the HDMI, so I keep it off most of the time, however Alexa still runs in the background. I also have a temperature sensor on my MM and I have a 5V fan attached to my Pi to keep it cool. It stays belwo 45degC.
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@lucallmon Thanks for the feedback. I hope to get the chance to test a bit more during the weekend and report back if the performce issues become really bad :)
Best regards / Dave
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changing to sox helped me get the hello at start…and improved playback for me…it’s a little slow but a cool feature…
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Hello everybody,
first off all i want to give all of you a BIG THANKS for helping me out ;-) :-)
I had some trouble’s installing and setting up Alexa with MM.
After reading the forums and the people having the same issue, this entry helped me a lot and i have Alexa integrated in MM and working now.Wow wat is everybody so motivated and helpfull. Keep up the good work everybody and looking forward making MM the best.
Greets a happy MM beginner.
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@mymmbeginner I am happy this post helped. As a newbie here I am really impressed with the support from this community as well. Glad to be a part of it!
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