Hello-Lucy

sdetweil

@snikolaidis before we get to MM with lucy, arecord must work

arecord: set_params:1339: Sample format non available
Available formats:
- S16_LE

yes, it didn’t record cause it can’t do the default

arecord --format=S16-LE test.wav

snikolaidis

@sdetweil said in Hello-Lucy:

arecord --format=S16-LE test.wav

pi@MagicMirror:~ $ arecord --format=S16_LE test.wav
arecord: main:828: audio open error: No such file or directory


pi@MagicMirror:~ $ arecord -D hw:2,0 --format="S16_LE" test.wav
Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
^CAborted by signal Interrupt...
pi@MagicMirror:~ $ ls
Bookshelf  Desktop  Documents  Downloads  MagicMirror  Pictures  pocketsphinx  Public  sphinxbase  Templates  test.wav  Videos
pi@MagicMirror:~ $

if i specify the USB camera it works, if i leave it to defaults audio open error

sdetweil

@snikolaidis and aplay test.wav do you hear what you said?

sdetweil

@sdetweil >if i specify the USB camera it works,

ok, so, how do you update lucy to use the usb camera config ?

snikolaidis

@sdetweil
yes on both i hear what i said and changing the microphone line in config is all i’ve ever done to get it working, flash raspbian -> install MM and modules -> run arecord -l and change the mic config line to what my pi reflects

Pi4b

 {
disabled: false,
module: "Hello-Lucy",
position: "bottom_bar",
config: {
    keyword: 'JARVIS',              // keyword to activate listening for a command/sentence
    timeout: 5,                        // timeout listening for a command/sentence
    standByMethod: 'DPMS',              // 'DPMS' = anything else than RPi or 'PI'
    microphone: "2,0",                  // run "arecord -l" card # and device # mine is "0,0"
    sounds: ["intro.mp3"],        // welcome sound at startup. Add several for a random greetings
    confirmationSound: "ding.mp3",      // name and extension of sound file
    startHideAll: false,                 // All modules start as hidden EXCEPT PAGE ONE
    // *** Page One is your default startup page *** This overrides startHideAll: true,
    pageOneModules: ["Hello-Lucy","MMM-AfterShip"],                     // default modules to show on page one/startup
    pageTwoModules: ["Hello-Lucy", "MMM-BMW-OW"], // modules to show on page two
    pageThreeModules: ["Hello-Lucy", "MMM-Systemstats"],                 // modules to show on page three
    }
}

Pi3b+

{
disabled: false,
module: "Hello-Lucy",
position: "bottom_bar",
config: {
    keyword: 'JARVIS',              // keyword to activate listening for a command/sentence
    timeout: 5,                        // timeout listening for a command/sentence
    standByMethod: 'DPMS',              // 'DPMS' = anything else than RPi or 'PI'
    microphone: "2,0",                  // run "arecord -l" card # and device # mine is "0,0"
    sounds: ["yourang.mp3"],        // welcome sound at startup. Add several for a random greetings
    confirmationSound: "ding.mp3",      // name and extension of sound file
    startHideAll: false,                 // All modules start as hidden EXCEPT PAGE ONE
    // *** Page One is your default startup page *** This overrides startHideAll: true,
    pageOneModules: ["Hello-Lucy","MMM-AfterShip"],                     // default modules to show on page one/startup
    pageTwoModules: ["Hello-Lucy", "MMM-BMW-OW"], // modules to show on page two
    pageThreeModules: ["Hello-Lucy", "MMM-Systemstats"],                 // modules to show on page three
    }
}

snikolaidis

@sdetweil i specified the mic in ~.asoundrc so now arecord goes directly to the usb mic but still throws the format code, lucy still wont pick it up tho


pcm.!default {
  type asym
  playback.pcm {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "output"
  }
  capture.pcm "hw:2,0"
}

pcm.output {
  type hw
  card 1
}

ctl.!default {
  type hw
  card 1
}

sdetweil

mine is

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
}

ctl.!default {
    type hw
    card 1
}

so I would guess yours would be

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 2
}

ctl.!default {
    type hw
    card 1
}

snikolaidis

@sdetweil yeah still not working with lucy even though arecord works, would it have anything to do with that i went beta with the pi4?

sdetweil

@snikolaidis said in Hello-Lucy:

i went beta with the pi4

what beta? the 64bit pi os?

snikolaidis

@sdetweil the beta firmware & bootloader that lets you boot from usb

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
Sudo nano /etc/default/rpi-eeprom-update
sudo rpi-eeprom-update -d -f /lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/beta/pieeprom-2020-05-27.bin

sdetweil

@snikolaidis oh… that won’t affect sound

snikolaidis

@sdetweil Sorry trying to think of anything possible

Mykle1

@snikolaidis said in Hello-Lucy:

on another note, i guess i said too many unkown commands or somethings and a list of all the commands possible popped up and wont go away, any thoughts other than rebooting

Oh, did you mean commands to Lucy? The Command List appeared? You can say “Hide Help” or “Close Help”.

Mykle1

Thank you @sdetweil for doing the troubleshooting on this one. :thumbsup:

majik655

@snikolaidis Did you ever figure this out? I have a pi4 and have a logitech webcam c920 … it shows as card 2 and should be 2,0 … I can record and play back in arecord Everything from what I can see works fine except when in MM Lucy talks and then when waiting for command her icon goes to ERROR.

I have gotten this to work with a sunfounder usb mic (just a crappy mic) and I was hoping the lag would be better using the webcam mic. (waiting for my new 3.5 jack microphone which should help the lag).

In any case I just do not know why Lucy doesn’t pick up the webcam mic??
@Mykle1 does it make sense it doesn’t work?

majik655

@majik655 said in Hello-Lucy:

@snikolaidis Did you ever figure this out? I have a pi4 and have a logitech webcam c920 … it shows as card 2 and should be 2,0 … I can record and play back in arecord Everything from what I can see works fine except when in MM Lucy talks and then when waiting for command her icon goes to ERROR.

I have gotten this to work with a sunfounder usb mic (just a crappy mic) and I was hoping the lag would be better using the webcam mic. (waiting for my new 3.5 jack microphone which should help the lag).

In any case I just do not know why Lucy doesn’t pick up the webcam mic??
@Mykle1 does it make sense it doesn’t work?

Well I THOUGHT I had the crappy usb microphone working on my RPI 4 but I am wrong …Same issue as with webcam.
I do know I had this working on my RPI3 last night with crappy usb microphone… The only difference I can see is on the RPI3 it put the usb mic on CARD 1 . on the rpi4 no matter what I put in as a usb mic…it puts it as CARD 2 device 0. On the RPI4 I have “headphones” as card1 and HDMI as 0. I get sound out of both hdmi and 3.5 jack (headphones)…Arecord does record using either usb mic I use. For whatever reason Lucy just keeps throwing ERROR when trying to initialize the mic

majik655

@majik655 @Mykle1 @snikolaidis
Well I am unsure exactly why everything all of a sudden works now but I did the following and it seemed to work.

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo reboot

Before I was always doing apt-get and never did FULL-upgrade always did apt-get upgrade

When I did the apt full-upgrade it then told me at the end that I had 200 or so items that were not being used and could remove them using autoremove…
I then rebooted and did not change a thing in my .asoundrc or anything and it all started working.

Again I am unsure what exactly fixed it… oh I also removed the usb mouse and usb keyboard (again not sure if any of this matters) but if anyone wants to see my .asoundrc config I will post it.

Currently working with Logitech c920 webcam for mic and 3.5 jack for sound out (I want to change this to HDMI but I am afraid something will break.)

Mykle1

@majik655

Well, perhaps something was corrected in the update. Hard to tell, really. Glad you got it working.

. (waiting for my new 3.5 jack microphone which should help the lag).

Am I missing something here? 3.5 jack mic on a Pi?

majik655

@Mykle1
I was speaking about getting in the mail soon my new microphone that is 3.5mm connector so I can plug it into the raspberry pi’s “headphone” jack (am I wrong it being a 3.5?)
I ordered it because as I have read through all 29 pages of this forum thread it was mentioned (so I understood) that the lag I had when the command would be recognized is due to me using a usb microphone.
At least that is what I understood … I could totally be wrong as this thread goes a long way back in time lol

Then I thought I would just move my mirror and Lucy over to my raspberry 4. And of course nothing worked over there and was probably because I used the sd card on a PI3 previously.
Anyway it is working beautifully and there is no lag (but I am using a logitech webcam now and could be the reason why there is no lag?? or maybe just the “upgrade” from a 3 to a 4 has helped)

The only thing I have issues with now is, my mirror uses a motion PIR sensor to “blank” out the screen when no motion. When you step in front of it, it shows the modules and times out back to blank in 2 minutes of no motion. I have the no signal type of monitor and just need the blanking not turning off power or anything.

So when I start the mirror all modules are shown. I believe this is because of MMM-NEW-PIR forcing the show of all modules when motion.

Even without that for some reason Lucy would ALWAYS show currentweather and weatherforecast… no matter what I did. I could just not get her to not show those on page 1.

So now I have installed NOAA3 and hope maybe I can turn off the PIR module and see if Lucy will only show herself on page one .

Otherwise it is what it is and I can work with it … thank you for everything!

majik655

@Mykle1

I do have one more question…

Is there any way to not show lucy on any pages.

Currently when I start Magic MIrror she is the only thing that shows on the screen.
My PAGEONE in config is [] (nothing… No modules)

For page two I have a few (no lucy) and is working fine.

When she shows page two…its fine… she is not there (good)…
When we go BACK to page one … she is not there (good)…

But when we first start she is there.

Is there any trick I could do to just not show her at all?
I read in an earlier post where I can change “Say, Hello Lucy” and wonder if I can just blank that area out to nothing.

But how would I go about basically removing the microphone icon ?
I could replace it with a black box or something if I have to …just don’ t know where that is.

Of course I would think just getting rid of those display things would still allow lucy to work we just visually would not see her.

EDIT: And yeah old info … looked in en.json file in translations folder and basically changing line 3 in there does nothing really. Please let me know if this is an easy task or not. THANK YOU!