UNSOLVED MMM-Assistantmk2 and MMM-Hotword not picking up

jmartin1009

I have MMM-Assistantmk2 and MMM-Hotword installed and the little logo comes up on screen on MM but none of the hotwords activate it for some reason can anyone help me? Not sure what’s wrong

jmartin1009

@Sean possible for you to help me? I believe this is your module so you would know best haha

jmartin1009

It works when I get my mouse in the right spot and I click the icon, can talk to it and it talks back, just doesn’t pick up the hotwords

jmartin1009

@sdetweil do you have any knowledge of these modules? You’ve been a great help in my other problems

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 i have not used those modules…

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 if you start MM in developer mode,

npm start dev

and then select the console tab of the dev window

do you see the notifications being sent?

and u are not using MMM-Voice at the same time, right? only one module can have the mic at a time

ejay-ibm

seems to be an audio config issue .
Please paste your config.js file here
and the outputs of the following commands :
aplay -l
arecord -l

Ejay

jmartin1009

@sdetweil I’m not using MMM-Voice, I’m using MMM-Assistantmk2 and MMM-Hotword, hotword pics up the word to wake the assistant and assistant takes care of the rest. I’ve been able to talk to the assistant but hotword doesn’t wake when I say the wakeword.

jmartin1009

@ejay-ibm here is my magicmirror config file:

var config = {
	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",

	modules: [
	
		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar"
		},
		{
		    module: "MMM-AssistantMk2",
		    position: "top_bar",
		    config: {
		      record: {
		        recordProgram : "arecord",  
		        device        : "plughw:1, 0",
		      },
		
		      notifications: {
		        ASSISTANT_ACTIVATED: "HOTWORD_PAUSE",
		        ASSISTANT_DEACTIVATED: "HOTWORD_RESUME",
		      },
		    }
		  },
		  {
		    module: "MMM-Hotword",
		    config: {
		      record: {
		        recordProgram : "arecord",  
		        device        : "plughw:1, 0",
		      },
		      autostart:true,
		      onDetected: {
		        notification: function (payload) {
		          return "ASSISTANT_ACTIVATE"
		        },
		        payload: function (payload){
		          return {
		            profile: payload.hotword
		          }
		        }
		      },
		    },
  		},
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left"
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "US Holidays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check",
						url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third"
		},
		{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "Dubuque",
				locationID: "4854529",  //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/; unzip the gz file and find your city
				appid: "6730254e02c0f50e5d951db321f6fa33"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				location: "Dubuque",
				locationID: "4854529",  //ID from https://openweathermap.org/city
				appid: "6730254e02c0f50e5d951db321f6fa33"
			}
		},
		{
    			module: "MMM-EARTH",
    			position: "bottom_right",
    			config: {
        			mode: "Natural",
        			rotateInterval: 15000,
        			MaxWidth: "30%",
        			MaxHeight: "30%",
    			}
		},
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
		{
    			module: 'MMM-ShairportMetadata',
    			position: 'bottom_left',
    			config: {
      			    metadataPipe: "/tmp/shairport-sync-metadata", // location of pipe with shairport-sync metadata
	  			alignment: "center",	// Possible values [left|right|center]. Default: center
    		}
  		},
	]

};

here is the output for aplay -l:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
  Subdevices: 7/7
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I do use PulseAudio because i use the PS3 eye mic, which uses a mic array that alsamixer doesn’t like, but it works when i talk to the assistant, Hotword just doesn’t hear my wakewords.
Here is the output for arecord -l

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: CameraB409241 [USB Camera-B4.09.24.1], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

It seems to work whether i use “plughw: 0” and “plughw: 0, 1”.

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 I would remove the space in the device name

"plughw: 0,1"