Hi,

i am trying sinth month to install Alexa (MMM-AwesomeAlexa or the standalone vom Amazon direct) but it is a nightmare.

The complete installation from the MMM-AwesomeAlexa Module is not possible because snowboy is a big problem.
(thread existing)

I managed to install Alexa as Standalone with the amazon tutorial and some workarounds for a lot of problems.
but it was only in english and not wenn integreated in my smarthome environment.
i was not able to change the language.

why is this so f**king hard or full of problems and errors?

(System: Fresh Raspberry Pi 3 B with fresh Rasbian Lite AND also tryed everything with Rasbian Full Streched.)

Okay, little Update, why i think the module dont work.

I saw that the part:

rm -rf node_modules
npm install nan --save 
npm install node-pre-gyp@0.12.0 --save 
npm install 
npm run prepublish 

throws some erros:

Found 2 errors.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish: `tsc --listFiles`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish 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/2019-09-11T20_53_08_308Z-debug.log

after a bit googeling i found this: https://www.gitmemory.com/issue/eouia/MMM-Hotword/65/507582634

so i editet the package.json and set up the typescript version ti 3.5.2 and gor this errors by npm run prepublish:

> snowboy@1.3.1 prepublish /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy
> tsc --listFiles

node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts:43:11 - error TS2300: Duplicate identifier 'IteratorResult'.

43 interface IteratorResult<T> { }
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es2015.iterable.d.ts:41:6
    41 type IteratorResult<T, TReturn = any> = IteratorYieldResult<T> | IteratorReturnResult<TReturn>;
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    'IteratorResult' was also declared here.

node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es2015.iterable.d.ts:41:6 - error TS2300: Duplicate identifier 'IteratorResult'.

41 type IteratorResult<T, TReturn = any> = IteratorYieldResult<T> | IteratorReturnResult<TReturn>;
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts:43:11
    43 interface IteratorResult<T> { }
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    'IteratorResult' was also declared here.

i think this is a current problem, that snowboy is not correct installed… can anyone confiorm this?

I would LOVE to get this work… i have done everything that is written in the guide:

2nd hand guide

and of course in your normal regular guide…
i have testet my microphone and my speaker… everything is okay. but when i set up the config and a try tu say something… NOTHING works.
even with wireshark i dont see, that everything is trying to do something.