MMM-Hotword causing Mirror to blackout

[A Former User]

@budddesilva said in MMM-Hotword causing Mirror to blackout:

Error: Cannot find module ‘snowboy’

This says you didn’t (or failed) npm install of modules. snowboy is included in MMM-Hotword and you havn’t installed it completely. Was there any suspicious error when you install MMM-Hotword?

[budddesilva]

Ok. These are the steps I took.

1. Removed the MMM-AssistantMk2/node_modules folder.
2. npm install in the MMM-AssistantMk2 folder
   cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-AssistantMk2
   npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
   npm install nan
3. Received the following error

WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: Failed to load gRPC binary module because it was not installed for the current system
Expected directory: electron-v2.0-linux-arm-glibc
Found: [node-v67-linux-arm-glibc]
This problem can often be fixed by running "npm rebuild" on the current system
Original error: Cannot find module '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-AssistantMk2/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/electron-v2.0-linux-arm-glibc/grpc_node.node'

4. Ran the npm rebuild command in the MMM-AssistantMk2 folder
5. Still the same error as before.
6. Ran the npm rebuild command in the MMM-AssistantMk2 > node_modules folder
7. Still the same error as before.

What do you think @sdetweil ?

[A Former User]

@budddesilva

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essentials
sudo apt-get install gcc-5

do this first.

Then,

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev sox libsox-fmt-all

Then,

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-AssistantMk2
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild

I wish you have a luck. Happy holidays.

[budddesilva]

Hi @Sean
Thank you for your input. I ran through all the commands you gave without any problems. Had to change the “essentials” to “essential”.
But, now I get the previous error I had received.

WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: Cannot find module ‘snowboy’.

[A Former User]

@budddesilva
That is another issue. snowboy is related with MMM-Hotword, and that error says you didn’t or failed proper installation of that module. Read the instructions of installation.