MMM-Hotword

[themc]

is there anyway to integrate hotword with xscreensaver so i can blank the screen at 10 minutes and it pops back on whenever i say the hotword to the mirror ?

[A Former User]

@themc
I think possible.
With MMM-notficationTrigger, you can override HOTWORD_DETECTED notification to any notification for any other modules.
So, If you have some module which can awake screen (I don’t know whether really that kind of module exists), it is possible.
If it doesn’t exist, hmmm. you might be able to fork this repository and modify it for that purpose.

[themc]

haha im a newbie when it comes to coding and finding the right lines but ill have a look arround to see if i can fix something up. i know xscreensaver can be turned on by the following command in terminal:

-activate Tell xscreensaver to turn on immediately (that is, blank the screen, as if the user had been idle for long enough.) The screensaver will deactivate as soon as there is any user activity, as usual.
It is useful to run this from a menu; you may wish to run it as

sleep 5 ; xscreensaver-command -activate
to be sure that you have time to take your hand off the mouse before the screensaver comes on. (Because if you jiggle the mouse, xscreensaver will notice, and deactivate.)

so i think it should be possible to link a hotword to that line to execute it

[themc]

@themc @myself the correct command would be

-deactivate
This tells xscreensaver to pretend that there has just been user activity. This means that if the screensaver is active (the screen is blanked), then this command will cause the screen to un-blank as if there had been keyboard or mouse activity. If the screen is locked, then the password dialog will pop up first, as usual. If the screen is not blanked, then this simulated user activity will re-start the countdown (so, issuing the -deactivate command periodically is one way to prevent the screen from blanking.)

[A Former User]

@themc
If you want just to use MMM-Hotword as screensaver-awakener,
modify node_helper.js ;

// add this in line 1:
var exec = require('child_process').exec
...
// around line 86
.on('hotword', (index, hotword, buffer)=>{
  exec ("xscreensaver-command -deactivate", (err, stdout, stderr)=>{})
...

[themc]

awesome ill try it out right away

[A Former User]

@themc
Not tested. I wrote that post by your description. So I don’t know whether it works really.
But you can find a way how to work.

[Cr4z33]

Does anybody know what to edit to use custom hotwords (yes I created them in the Snowboy dashboard)?

[A Former User]

@cr4z33
Go to snowboy and signup (https://snowboy.kitt.ai).
It’s better to do in your target device (Raspberry Pi)
After login, you can see create Hotword button. click then follow instruction.
After that, you can get your personal model (.pmdl)
put that file into MMM-Hotword/resources then modify configuration.
By example, you recorded and get abracadabra.pmdl,
your configuration will be

 snowboy: [
  {
    hotwords: "abracadabra", 
    file: "resources/models/abracadabra.pmdl",
    sensitivity: '0.5',
  },
  ...

Then you can catch abracadabra by your voice.

[Cr4z33]

@sean
Hmm that’s exactly what I did so either I am setting the wrong hotwords: word or there’s something more needed to edit?

In my case I have recorded the hotwords ‘OK Google’ and ‘Ehi Google’ and apart from the proper file name and path I set hotwords: "okgoogle", and hotwords: "ehigoogle",.

Also… can I use spaces into the quotes?