Kalliope assistant + MM

marcnlx

I tested Kalliope yesterday night and once you know how it works, it’s pretty sweet! ;)

Unfortunately I noticed some bugs/issues which are discussed multiple times on Github, so for now I think I will wait until a later release since I need to restart Kalliope multiple times after 2-3 phrases because of pulseaudio issues which I can’t seem to fix:

2018-03-18 12:42:27 :: kalliope-0.5.1b :: File found in /home/pi/kalliope_starter_en/trigger/kalliope-EN-12samples.pmdl
Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kalliope-0.5.1b0-py2.7.egg/kalliope/trigger/snowboy/snowboydecoder.py", line 98, in __init__
    stream_callback=audio_callback)
  File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/pyaudio.py", line 750, in open
    stream = Stream(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/pyaudio.py", line 441, in __init__
    self._stream = pa.open(**arguments)
IOError: [Errno -9985] Device unavailable

sispheor

@marcnlx Uninstall pulse audio and work only with alsa.
We’ve remove pulseaudio from our doc.

sispheor

Kalliope v0.5.1 has been released with all stuff needed to integrate Magic Mirror.

maxbachmann

@sispheor kalliope uses the Google Speech recognition?

strawberry 3.141

@maxbachmann google is the default, but you can select others https://kalliope-project.github.io/kalliope/settings/settings/#speech-to-text-configuration

sispheor

@maxbachmann Yes you can choose your STT and TTS engine. Some are cloud based and some can be self hosted.

dmwilsonkc

@sispheor I am interested in duplicating your work for a different AI. So I figured the best place to start is to install your module and get it working before I make changes to suit my needs with the other AI. I have installed the MMM-Kalliope module, but the curl commands do not display on my mirror. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Here’s my entry in config.js

{
    module: "MMM-kalliope",
    position: "upper_third",
                        config: {
                                max: "5",
                                keep_seconds: "8",
                                title: "Kalliope"
                                }

},

I do receive a json response indicating success, however, nothing gets displayed on the mirror.

Here’s the curl command:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"notification":"KALLIOPE", "payload": "my message"}' http://localhost:8080/kalliope

Here’s the response:

{"status": "success"}

Yet nothing gets displayed. Do you have any suggestions?

sispheor

@dmwilsonkc seems good anyway.
I don’t see any errors. Maybe test another position. This one is not already used by another module?

dmwilsonkc

@sispheor I’ve tried multiple positions for the module, still nothing gets displayed. Not sure why though. I’ve tried refresh, reboot etc. still nothing. Maybe I should delete the module and try a fresh install. The curl should work with just the module installed right?

sdetweil

@sispheor trying to help, I installed the module on my mirror… but… curl notifications don’t work…

is there an install step missing? or a package.json that defines the install process for the dependencies?

cut paste from the module readme…

~/MagicMirror/modules$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"notification":"KALLIOPE", "payload": "my message"}' http://localhost:8080/kalliope
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 8080: Connection refused

netstat shows nothing listening on 8080

so, my mirror is NOT on 8080, but 8086, due to other components on the normal MM ports…

you should update the instructions to say use the MM port on the curl…

now… I got the notification, and see the debug log (ctrl-shft-i) say

MMM-kalliope received a socket notification: KALLIOPE Payload: my message

and the content shows for the configured amount of time (8 seconds per the above config settings)