@sdetweil I tried the boot recovery mentioned in the link, but no luck with that. Still gets stuck in boot and with a red light. no green light. should I try to get a replacement for my device?

Also now I am facing this problem where, no matter what I do, RPI4 does not take any other sd card boot image and boot that particular system.
For instance, My 32gb with working MM and RPI OS 32bit, boot up without any problem.
But then, I tried booting with a older build of RPI OS, Ubuntu(https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi) 32bit for Pi4.

Both tried on different sd cards with 8gb/32gb and also reformatting it several times and everything.

I feel just so exhausted doing all this and thinking of returning my RPI4 if it has so may issues.

@Bugsounet said in MMM Awesome Alexa installing snowboy.:

@Ameyalgudkar:
I see in the error log it’s an x64 build…
so best way is reinstall OS with 32bits version

I am indeed running the 32bit Raspberry Pi OS latest from the official downloads, and not any beta versions.
I don’t know why the installer is running it in x64.

@sdetweil If you could make a copy of your image file or if you have it saved on your disk maybe?
could you upload it to google cloud or something?

@sdetweil

there.
and if there’s a way to run it on 4.19 then how do I downgrade?

@sdetweil I believe I’m on 5.4.51 kernel but not sure if that’s the one. and don’t know if 32/64 bit.

@sdetweil yes those steps.
The one I am referring to is 4th to last.

@sdetweil I did follow all the steps, and now I am getting stuck at this npm install step for installing dependencies. namely “snowboy” which is required for the hotword recognition.

I’m having the following issue/error after running this command “npm install” trying to install snowboy.
If anyone has found solutions to this error, please please PLEASE let me know.

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/snowboy/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 5.4.51-v7l+
node-pre-gyp ERR! command “/usr/bin/node” “/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/snowboy/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp” “install” “–fallback-to-build”
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/snowboy
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.22.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.12.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute ‘/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node --module_name=snowboy --module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm --napi_version=6 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v64’ (1)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! snowboy@1.3.1 install: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the snowboy@1.3.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-09-11T13_22_25_913Z-debug.log

@sdetweil well, thank you for the time I appreciate it. and hope you find a solution in future for this.