@doctorwhen

Like I mentioned to the other guy, I’ve been wanting to get voice command gong on my latest project, which is this:

Being a relative newbie to this, I’m hoping it’s not too complicated for me. Before I get started, I was wondering: there’s no mention of the Raspberry Pi in the Siri section. Is that because it won’t work on the Pi, or just it didn’t get mentioned?

Also, you may have noticed my project’s appearance. Any chance I could get this, either as Siri or Google, to answer to “Okay, HAL,” and maybe use a voice approximating our favorite kill-happy computer?

Thanks for putting this package together, hopefully I can get this project closer to where I want it.

I may have other questions later.

@doctorwhen

Like I mentioned to the other guy, I’ve been wanting to get voice command gong on my latest project, which is this:

Being a relative newbie to this, I’m hoping it’s not too complicated for me. Before I get started, I was wondering: there’s no mention of the Raspberry Pi in the Siri section. Is that because it won’t work on the Pi, or just it didn’t get mentioned?

Also, you may have noticed my project’s appearance. Any chance I could get this, either as Siri or Google, to answer to “Okay, HAL,” and maybe use a voice approximating our favorite kill-happy computer?

Thanks for putting this package together, hopefully I can get this project closer to where I want it.

I may have other questions later.

@bugsounet

I’m actually glad he posted this. I’ve been wanting to set up some sort of voice command with my Magic Mirror install, Alexa or Google are okay, Siri would be even better if I can pull it off. This looks like its exactly what I wanted.

@sdetweil

Well, whatever I did, it worked enough to get the message about the QR code where it should be. Now to see if I can actually get the webpage to behave as well.

@sdetweil said in MM Config check goes bad:

@halpi-thousand what position is it configured for? I don’t see it on screen.

Exactly the problem, it doesn’t show up. It’s set up for upper left, last in line so it should be below the holidays and above the Earth. I copy/pasted right from your page instructions, and I kept an eye out for that bit with the missing bracket error I made in that other thing, so I figure it should be happy. Except for some reason it isn’t. I have no idea what it could be.

I’ve created something I think is really awesome: I call it the HAL Pi-Thousand.

A Pi 4b, a USB WebCam/Mic combo, two touchscreen displays, the native RasPi 7" and a decent 10.1" I found on Amazon, a nice picture frame, a powered USB Hub on the side, and of course a HAL 9000 model. And a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo for control, or a VNC connection once it’s fully completed and no longer right at my computer desk.

Here’s my question: it has two displays. I had thought to find some way to make a sort of ten to fifteen-virtual button interface for the bottom one, assuming there’s a way to do that at the Newbie/kinda-interested-but-no-Python-experience-to-speak-of stage.

Alternately, I’d like to give it a second Magic Mirror for the bottom display, you know, have a bit more info on display. It’d have to be a second incarnation of MM, because the two are slightly different sizes, which apparently is enough to prevent the MM on the 10" display from extending through to the 7".

So, does this sound in any way doable? Or on the other hand, is there some way to get MM to extend to the 7 after all? Or on the other other hand…

is there some relatively idiot-resistant way to set up those virtual buttons I mentioned, either in MM or some other app?

This is what I had in mind for the virtual buttons:

See, I got the idea for the overall layout and design from something I found while playing the Google lottery: a company had planned to sell a sort of Alexa/HAL thing a few years ago, but it never got off the ground beyond the example stage. Also, the thing would have cost about $1,000, which not a lot of folks would be ready to pony up, no matter how cool it looks. I’d considered trying to find some light-up buttons for the lower section early on, but didn’t see anything that was quite right, and besides I already had the 7". Plus, this way it can have more functions than just being a button section. I figure it’d be a good place to use for a Teams or other video area (did I mention this runs Teams? Well, it runs Teams. And I’m hoping to incorporate Alexa or Google Assistant or that Voice thing in the 3rd party section, but that’s another subject), so a graphical Virtual button setup seems the way to go.

Anyway, that’s where I’m at right now. So, any thoughts on these options, guys? Run a second MM, extend the first MM, Virtual buttons, or maybe virtual buttons at the bottom of an extended MM?

I appreciate any advice from People Who Know Stuff. Thanks

@sdetweil said in MM Config check goes bad:

@halpi-thousand if the mm config says
address:“localhost”,
the Only apps INSIDE the pi can connect

if u want to connect from outside the pi (phone, tablet, ??? )
then u have to change address and ipWhitelist
to allow outside machines anto connect

it’s showQR not ShowQR

case matters in MagicMirror, everywhere

I checked, and it’s set up as localhost. That shouldn’t be a problem, this one isn’t headless. Two displays and a wireless keyboard/trackpad.

Also, showQR is correct spelling and case.

@sdetweil said in MM Config check goes bad:

@halpi-thousand if you use showQR:true

then there will be a qr code to use from outside

the default port on mm is 8080

the doc (readme.md) says what link to use if not using the qr code

Right, the link where you substitute the IP and Port for that one part

http://MM_IP_Address:MM_Port/modules/MMM-Config/review

I tried the Pi’s IP and Port 8080, and got this error:

Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server
at 192.168.1.13:8080.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or
too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check
your computer’s network connection.
• If your computer or network is protected by
a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is
permitted to access the Web.

I also tried adding in that ShowQR: true line; it didn’t give me a QR.

Any ideas where I might be getting it wrong?

@sdetweil said in MM Config check goes bad:

@halpi-thousand said in MM Config check goes bad:

Geany

?

it did report, that somewhere further down it lost the structure

deducing where it was caused is a fun time project.

I wrote a module for this kind of problem, that presents a form. no more config editing

funny it’s called MMM-Config!

https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Config

:astonished_face: And just like that, you’re my new best MagicMirror friend - I’ve been wanting something like this to make working on this stuff easier. Love this idea. Looks like it should be a fair bit more Newb-friendly than fiddling around in the config file tends to be.

One thing: it apparently requires the Pi IP address and Port ID. The IP address wasn’t a problem, but I don’t know where or what to look for to get the Port ID. Or did I just miss something somewhere?

Thanks again

@sdetweil

That helps, thanks.

Why doesn’t Geany tell me these things? Granted, I’m only getting started learning about this, and maybe I missed something somewhere but I would think that at least for little stuff - missing parentheses and so forth - it could manage to tell me what’s missing.

Or is it that it probably did, and I just didn’t notice?

So, I wanted to get rid of the compliments module. I don’t mind a respectful computer, but I don’t care for the obsequious toadying and so forth. And I wanted to take a swing at adding modules.

So, I went with MMM-BinaryClock. Simple, nothing too weird, what could possibly go wrong, right?

Blank screens on MM, that’s what. I ran npm run config:check like it said I should. This is what it said:

Your configuration file contains syntax errors :(
[30.01.2022 14:11.12.180] [ERROR] Line 71 column 3: Parsing error: Unexpected token {

I guess by column 3 it means the third tab out.

Thing is, that’s exactly where it was with the compliments thing.

Here’s what it was:

	url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third"
		},
		{
			module: "weather",

Here it is after I changed it:

url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'MMM-BinaryClock',
			position:"lower_third",
			config: {
				size: 30
		},
		{
			module: "weather",

I don’t see any difference between the two starts and ends. It has the same number of tab spaces as the previous one. I don’t see what the problem is. Granted, I don’t know a whole lot about this stuff.

Here’s what the page wants:

var config = {
    modules: [
        {
            module: 'MMM-BinaryClock',
            position:"top_left",
            config: {
                size: 30
                }
        }
    ]
}

Obviously, a bit of a difference, but since in mine it isn’t the first one at the top, I didn’t figure that leaving out the stuff from the beginning should be a problem.

So, any ideas on what the problem might be? I really don’t want to go through this every time I ad a module, because there are a few I;'ve got my eye on.

Thanks