3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?

The_Mingler

@rchase
Yeah I thought that was one of the more attractive features of it. It was cool! I had to make a few tweaks to clear the screen afterwards though. It always pulls the same video for a search term (the first video in the search results), but this can be fixed programmatically to pull a random video in the top 5 or 10 results, or a specific video number in the results (but for that you need to change the utterances to accept a number as well and pass that into the function). But yeah, it was cool! One recommendation is read the instructions, and read them again. If you are like the rest of us on here, you kinda read and then you sorta skip to the numbered instructions and go from there. You need to read the paragraphs and the forum and they will tell you everything you need to know. But yeah it is pretty awesome.

Oh yeah, in order to have Alexa active for the MMonTW to work properly, there are three scripts (including an authentication one with Amazon) that need to be running. I usually start these up manually and haven’t looked into auto-starting them upon pi startup (like most do with their mirror). Hopefully that is possible.

rchase

@The_Mingler Nice! Alright that sounds pretty sweet though.

Anyone successfully controlled some Belkin WeMo stuff from Alexa? I feel like it wont be too hard to get this part figured out, since WeMo claims its supported anyways, I just dont know if there is extra configuration running from an RPI vs a normal echo/dot

lucallmon

@rchase check out my MM build here and you can see how mine works. If you want to try and learn what you can about the MirrorMirrorOnTheWall module, try here but good luck.

romain

Well, good luck. I try to make Alexa work from quite sometime now and I still getting any result. I tryed both MMM-Alexa and MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall . Both module have incomplete instruction to me. They explain how to setup some stuff but not how to test it. So… even after following all the instruction I could find, I just end up stupidly talking in my mic with no answer or whatever. And no instruction on what should happen. How to know if AlexaPi is correctly installed ? no clue. How do I know that the module is well config within the mirror ? I guess you’ll know when you figure it out by yourself.
I would like a step by step video from someone doing it to see if my “issues” are hardware related or software related (I mean, if the issue is my mic not being picked up or if my config is wrong.) If I could “see” someone doing it, I could see what I am doing wrong.

Anyway. Best of luck

lucallmon

I have installed AlexaPi separate from MM 3 times with success each time. I feel like the AlexaPi I’m not sure where you guys are getting hung up. I’d be willing to walk you through it when I have time. I can do that on gitter.

johnnyboy

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romain

@lucallmon Great, what is your timezone ? when am I the most likely to find you ? Even though you not available to gitter us your magic right now, I’ll like to be ready when you are

lucallmon

@romain I’m US eastern.

mahabub99

@rchase said in 3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?:
I think MMM-Alexa by sakirtemel is the best.
Because it’s pretty good from other.
Thanks :)

borrigan

@romain said in 3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?:

ncomplete instruction to me. They explain how to setup some stuff but not how to test it. So

Hi @romain , did you get to test all modules and conclude which one is the best? I am totally lost with MMM-Alexa. I installed it and can see the yellow square in the MM interface but I don’t know how to get it working. Documentation says:

" You can easily develop your own module and control this module or get notified about events happening"

But it does not say how to develop this module :(

Any clues will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks