MMM-awesome-alexa

menanr

@Cr4z33
Well dang. I’m doing something wrong here. Whether I use the helper config or the tool above, I get a broken error page.

And I know an error page is expected, but it’s not a long url with a code in it.
It’s like… amazon.com/wpa

and that’s it.

Was the right choice “device with alexa built in” and “no companion app” ? I figure I must have done something wrong on the Amazon developer page, since that’s the part with no guide and it’s working for other people.

Hey
did you get it working. I am stuck at the same spot.

Thanks

prpun311

@berne No, its just telling you what the amazon site is doing, you only need the top portion.

prpun311

@menanr try this out,
https://www.howtogeek.com/423233/how-to-add-alexa-to-your-smart-mirror/

Blackhawk50000

I would LOVE to get this work… i have done everything that is written in the guide:

2nd hand guide

and of course in your normal regular guide…
i have testet my microphone and my speaker… everything is okay. but when i set up the config and a try tu say something… NOTHING works.
even with wireshark i dont see, that everything is trying to do something.

Blackhawk50000

Okay, little Update, why i think the module dont work.

I saw that the part:

rm -rf node_modules
npm install nan --save 
npm install node-pre-gyp@0.12.0 --save 
npm install 
npm run prepublish

throws some erros:


Found 2 errors.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish: `tsc --listFiles`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-09-11T20_53_08_308Z-debug.log

after a bit googeling i found this: https://www.gitmemory.com/issue/eouia/MMM-Hotword/65/507582634

so i editet the package.json and set up the typescript version ti 3.5.2 and gor this errors by npm run prepublish:


> snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy
> tsc --listFiles

node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts:43:11 - error TS2300: Duplicate identifier 'IteratorResult'.

43 interface IteratorResult<T> { }
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es2015.iterable.d.ts:41:6
    41 type IteratorResult<T, TReturn = any> = IteratorYieldResult<T> | IteratorReturnResult<TReturn>;
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    'IteratorResult' was also declared here.

node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es2015.iterable.d.ts:41:6 - error TS2300: Duplicate identifier 'IteratorResult'.

41 type IteratorResult<T, TReturn = any> = IteratorYieldResult<T> | IteratorReturnResult<TReturn>;
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts:43:11
    43 interface IteratorResult<T> { }
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    'IteratorResult' was also declared here.

i think this is a current problem, that snowboy is not correct installed… can anyone confiorm this?

HabibA

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HabibA

I solved my problems with that now.
https://github.com/dolanmiu/MMM-awesome-alexa/issues/184#issuecomment-584215826

vlatko_jordanov

Hi @dolanmiu awesome job with the Alexa I must say!!

I have set it up however I think it’s behaving weird or I am missing some bits and pieces to make it work! I’ve added MMM-NowPlayingOnSpotify and google calendar however when I try to ask Alexa to add event on the calendar or to play Spotify it has no idea, what am I missing here, please let me know what logs I can provide to troubleshoot!

Cheers,
Vlatko

sdetweil

@vlatko_jordanov said in MMM-awesome-alexa:

MMM-NowPlayingOnSpotify

this module shows what is playing somewhere else.

I don’t think alexa can start playing anywhere, i stand corrected
https://www.spotify.com/us/amazonalexa/

now to make spotify play ON the PI
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=215857

how to integrate those, I don’t know.

calendar

can alexa add to your google calendar? it doesn’t know anything about what is on the mirror,
and the cal on the mirror is a download from some other location(google, apple…) . (ie , its read only)

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-connect-your-google-calendar-to-amazon-echo

vlatko_jordanov

@sdetweil

Hey Sam!

Thanks for coming coming back on this! Well I must say I was thinking the same that it could be due to something like that and the name of the Spotify module says it all doesn’t it :)

I was tricked by this video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7wqm8h3PnA
He didn’t mentioned anywhere how he controls Spotify, so I assumed Alexa somehow knew how to reach spotify and the module just to display the now playing.

So I need client is what you say right?
And about the calendar I already gave alexa rights through the Alexa app on my android phone but the funny thing is that when I go to devices it says that it’s offline?

Cheers,
Vlatko