MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall installation issue

OceanK

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OceanK

hey again!

I googled for some info abt this part in the index.js

let alexa = Alexa.handler(event, context);
alexa.appId = appId;

I found a site from 2018 7th march stating this:

alexa.appId = APP_ID;

so what do you think abt that?

OceanK

OK!

so now I have exatly like you. My lamda functions are OK. I test my alexa skill. She answers “what can I do for you my queen”

I then ask to turn off all modules. And then square on, there is a pronlem with the skill response!!! GAAAAH!

when you ask for videon on how to make slime for example. can you check your cloudwatch?

is yours looking on youtube for video but then error on throwing it back to the mirror?

richland007

I have to check when i get home but i have been tired, long work hours and no patience left on me anymore lol but i feel optimistic like we are getting close like our keys are not matching now or the api
i will check and let you know

richland007

Without testing anything new today …still at work. just from the old ones i went on google developer console where we got our api and cse key and i find absolutely no logs whatsoever the api and keys have never been used so they are not being hit by Alexa or the mirror the data tables have no data at all all clean and clear
so that means that there is no communication between them i will verify again once i get home if i am not to tired

OceanK

yes you are correct. I checked mine aswell, nothing.

interesting though, I cheked my IoT core and that has been hit 8 times sucessfully.

so that would mean that the connection kit we used to create the cert and root.ca woorks right?

richland007

@oceank Where on cloudWatch do you see the error or the log for youtube videos throwing an error??

OceanK

@richland007 OK! so first you need to sign into your skills site for alexa. you know where you test the skill, on the wall.

typ on the wall
and then she replys back …Hello etc…

then type Find video of how to make slime for example. Then head over to cloudwatch in the log section.

search for video content it should look like this:

09:12:37
2018-09-09T09:12:37.673Z	7e6f7486-b410-11e8-a41b-3fa2ca23765c	{ "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse", "etag": "\"XI7nbFXulYBIpL0ayR_gDh3eu1k/trfpcxzuGVnn32QncnihWoxjjgs\"", "nextPageToken": "CAEQAA", "regionCode": "US", "pageInfo": { "totalResults": 1000000, "resultsPerPage": 1 }, "items": [ { "kind": "youtube#searchResult", "etag": "\"XI7nbFXulYBIpL0ayR_gDh3e
2018-09-09T09:12:37.673Z	7e6f7486-b410-11e8-a41b-3fa2ca23765c
{
    "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
    "etag": "\"XI7nbFXulYBIpL0ayR_gDh3eu1k/trfpcxzuGVnn32QncnihWoxjjgs\"",
    "nextPageToken": "CAEQAA",
    "regionCode": "US",
    "pageInfo": {
        "totalResults": 1000000,
        "resultsPerPage": 1
    },
    "items": [
        {
            "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
            "etag": "\"XI7nbFXulYBIpL0ayR_gDh3eu1k/BqgWo2mCqNCYN8WncT1NMhRM7VE\"",
            "id": {
                "kind": "youtube#video",
                "videoId": "eaALjlyKDZI"
            },
            "snippet": {
                "publishedAt": "2017-04-11T19:00:03.000Z",
                "channelId": "UCIze4Pldy_KjXhYHqBwMLDQ",
                "title": "How to Make SLIME for Beginners! Best EASY Way to Make Slime!",
                "description": "YOU CAN NOW BUY MY SLIME ON ETSY: https://goo.gl/9GMmWA Hey guys! Today I'll be showing you the best, easiest way to make slime. Check out my other ...",
                "thumbnails": {
                    "default": {
                        "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eaALjlyKDZI/default.jpg",
                        "width": 120,
                        "height": 90
                    },
                    "medium": {
                        "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eaALjlyKDZI/mqdefault.jpg",
                        "width": 320,
                        "height": 180
                    },
                    "high": {
                        "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eaALjlyKDZI/hqdefault.jpg",
                        "width": 480,
                        "height": 360
                    }
                },
                "channelTitle": "Courtney Lundquist",
                "liveBroadcastContent": "none"
            }
        }
    ]
}

OceanK

next part, in the alexa skills section where you test the skills you can see logs aswell:

I can see its triggering the :

"name": "ShowVideoIntent",
                            "confirmationStatus": "NONE",
                            "slots": {
                                "searchTermVideo": {
                                    "name": "searchTermVideo",
                                    "value": "how to make slime",
                                    "confirmationStatus": "NONE"

so its looking for the video and then…nothing. check the whole log section for the alexa skill…its ALLOT and maybe you can figure something out from it.

richland007

Yeap exactly like yours …so does that mean that Lambda is not communicating back with Alexa and why not is the million dollar question question??
Another thing i noticed when you ask for images or display text no errors get recorded on Lambda …does this mean that our Api are missing for searches we have something wrong
I really don’t know at this point

OceanK

@richland007 Hey!

that is exactly what im trying to figure out. For some reason the lamda is not talking to the mirror.

As you say abt the picture search I have the sam “problem”

Can you check your iot core(the monitor), on my iot core I can see successful connections.

So I guess it means that the root.ca is working and talking to the iot core.

richland007

Any progress on this at all i have not done anything i was out of town since last Wednesday.
I don’t know which direction we should look towards … maybe the api keys and requests are the one messing up
i went back on the google developer console and i see my YouTube api hit a few times and with zero errors i also see the CSE (custom search engine) api hit also but with 100% errors …why ??
Since it is presenting the data by api numbers that means that the keys are working right but what is the error about??? where do you read more info about that???

D

richland007

Well here it is the 100% Error on CSE is this
"400 badRequest

Indicates that the query was invalid. E.g., parent ID was missing or the combination of dimensions or metrics requested was not valid.

Do not retry without fixing the problem. You need to make changes to the API query in order for it to work."

How do we fix this??

OceanK

Hey!

well I havent tryed for a week or so with this project. Im out of ideas for now =(, I can see that the coder has done some minor changes at github but not likley to help us I guess.

have you seen the new updates at github?

OceanK

I did check my CSE and I have actually 8 sucessful picture search…

OceanK

OK si I checked My CSE again after my test yesterday, I can see its hitting my gse everytime I ask for searching of pictures…but the mirror ansers there is a problem…but the statistics showing its working.

so the bad link is between the mirror and the lamda funtions. Because the video and picture search are all fine. But all functions like ask to turn all modules off etc is not working at all.

richland007

Ok so may be it is the Magic Mirrors configuration fault the keys copied to the magic mirror config etc?? maybe we need to redo that one more time
have you tried reinstalling (delete completely, download again and reinstall) the MMM- MirrorMirrorOnTheWall part only?? than play around with the key paths and files again etc.
Because there is zero communication back with the mirror… all we are doing so far is fine tuning a skill within Alexa…but what worries me the most is why isn’t Alexa showing any videos or images on my Echo Spot …although now that i think about it is that i have not tested it with the Echo Spot since I made the code changes.

If you got the MMM module on github the readme file was updated 15 hours ago but i see no other changes since the 3 months ago for mirrormirror.js file
anyhow all we got to do is keep trying

OceanK

@richland007 Hey!

I will try to start all over again. See whats happening. I can see there are some new changes in the files from the github. but im not that optimistic.

what abt u? have u started from scratch?

richland007

@OceanK Any news my friend??? I am so upset that we are not progressing with this module…it is exactly what i need and we can not get it to work.
I am going to try to mess with it a bit next week and see whats up
D

OceanK

@richland007 hey mate!

Well no progress here, I have reached out to the code maker without sucess:(

I have tried everything from scratch but no luck. Everything is triggered but not send back to the mirror itself.

I dunno where what to do next. Please report back when you have time even if it’s not successful.

I guess we are kinda stuck here.