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    • RE: Introduce yourself!

      Hi! This is Gerardo, from Mexico City, Mexico.
      Currently CIO at a TV Ratings agency, and trying to build cool projects.
      I have been trying to setup the mirror for some time now, but running into some difficulties, specifically with MMM-Alexa and a couple of other modules.
      Great to see such a big community trying to build MM’s!

      Thanks a lot and great to meet all.

      Gerardo

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    Latest posts made by borrigan

    • RE: MMM-AlexaPi

      @michael_klatt sorry about that, I edited the post.

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    • RE: MMM-AlexaPi

      @j.e.f.f I found a solution. It seems that the font-awesome style sheet is not being loaded by default, so the microphone icon does not show.

      I edited the index.html file located at the root folder of the MagicMirror installation, and added the following line:

      < !-- custom.css is loaded by the loader.js to make sure it's loaded after the module css files. -->
      < link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vendor/node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" >
      

      I added a space between the < so it could appear here, apparently the editor won’t allow me to paste these kind of lines directly.

      Hope this helps.

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    • RE: MMM-AlexaPi

      @michael24h did you ever get the mic to show up? Same problem here.
      Thanks!

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    • RE: MMM-AlexaPi

      Hi @j-e-f-f ! Thanks a lot for your response. I tried adding the “classes” line, but still nothing shown in the mirror interface. Alexa responds, but it would be great to see the status in the Mirror. Really weird.

      Have a great day.

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    • RE: 3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?

      @romain quick question, I’ve noticed that Alexa takes a few seconds to answer, sometimes around 20 seconds. Does this happen to you as well? Could it be a slow internet connection. Thanks again!

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    • RE: 3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?

      @romain finally got it working by replacing myTest with default as you indicated. Than you so very much!! One short glitch though, sometimes Alexa’s phrases can not be heard completely. For example, at boot time I can hear “o” instead of “hello”. Same happens when talking to her.

      But it is working!! Now time to test MMM-AlexaPi

      Thanks again @romain

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    • RE: 3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?

      @romain hi again!!

      I have done some progress. I followed your instructions, created the asound.conf file and setup myTest as the input device in the config.yaml file. When I run alexaPi, now it does not give me a microphone error, but a strange “Capture data too large” error. I get to hear the “hello” sound but when I speak “alexa” it won’t do anything.

      Really weird. Here is the full output of main.py execution:

      pi@raspberrypi:/opt/AlexaPi/src $ /opt/AlexaPi/src/main.py -d
      INFO: pocketsphinx.c(152): Parsed model-specific feature parameters from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/feat.params
      Current configuration:
      [NAME]			[DEFLT]		[VALUE]
      -agc			none		none
      -agcthresh		2.0		2.000000e+00
      -allphone				
      -allphone_ci		no		no
      -alpha			0.97		9.700000e-01
      -ascale			20.0		2.000000e+01
      -aw			1		1
      -backtrace		no		no
      -beam			1e-48		1.000000e-48
      -bestpath		yes		yes
      -bestpathlw		9.5		9.500000e+00
      -ceplen			13		13
      -cmn			live		batch
      -cmninit		40,3,-1		41.00,-5.29,-0.12,5.09,2.48,-4.07,-1.37,-1.78,-5.08,-2.05,-6.45,-1.42,1.17
      -compallsen		no		no
      -debug					0
      -dict					/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/cmudict-en-us.dict
      -dictcase		no		no
      -dither			no		no
      -doublebw		no		no
      -ds			1		1
      -fdict					
      -feat			1s_c_d_dd	1s_c_d_dd
      -featparams				
      -fillprob		1e-8		1.000000e-08
      -frate			100		100
      -fsg					
      -fsgusealtpron		yes		yes
      -fsgusefiller		yes		yes
      -fwdflat		yes		yes
      -fwdflatbeam		1e-64		1.000000e-64
      -fwdflatefwid		4		4
      -fwdflatlw		8.5		8.500000e+00
      -fwdflatsfwin		25		25
      -fwdflatwbeam		7e-29		7.000000e-29
      -fwdtree		yes		yes
      -hmm					/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us
      -input_endian		little		little
      -jsgf					
      -keyphrase				alexa
      -kws					
      -kws_delay		10		10
      -kws_plp		1e-1		1.000000e-01
      -kws_threshold		1		1.000000e-10
      -latsize		5000		5000
      -lda					
      -ldadim			0		0
      -lifter			0		22
      -lm					
      -lmctl					
      -lmname					
      -logbase		1.0001		1.000100e+00
      -logfn					
      -logspec		no		no
      -lowerf			133.33334	1.300000e+02
      -lpbeam			1e-40		1.000000e-40
      -lponlybeam		7e-29		7.000000e-29
      -lw			6.5		6.500000e+00
      -maxhmmpf		30000		30000
      -maxwpf			-1		-1
      -mdef					
      -mean					
      -mfclogdir				
      -min_endfr		0		0
      -mixw					
      -mixwfloor		0.0000001	1.000000e-07
      -mllr					
      -mmap			yes		yes
      -ncep			13		13
      -nfft			512		512
      -nfilt			40		25
      -nwpen			1.0		1.000000e+00
      -pbeam			1e-48		1.000000e-48
      -pip			1.0		1.000000e+00
      -pl_beam		1e-10		1.000000e-10
      -pl_pbeam		1e-10		1.000000e-10
      -pl_pip			1.0		1.000000e+00
      -pl_weight		3.0		3.000000e+00
      -pl_window		5		5
      -rawlogdir				
      -remove_dc		no		no
      -remove_noise		yes		yes
      -remove_silence		yes		yes
      -round_filters		yes		yes
      -samprate		16000		1.600000e+04
      -seed			-1		-1
      -sendump				
      -senlogdir				
      -senmgau				
      -silprob		0.005		5.000000e-03
      -smoothspec		no		no
      -svspec					0-12/13-25/26-38
      -tmat					
      -tmatfloor		0.0001		1.000000e-04
      -topn			4		4
      -topn_beam		0		0
      -toprule				
      -transform		legacy		dct
      -unit_area		yes		yes
      -upperf			6855.4976	6.800000e+03
      -uw			1.0		1.000000e+00
      -vad_postspeech		50		50
      -vad_prespeech		20		20
      -vad_startspeech	10		10
      -vad_threshold		2.0		2.000000e+00
      -var					
      -varfloor		0.0001		1.000000e-04
      -varnorm		no		no
      -verbose		no		no
      -warp_params				
      -warp_type		inverse_linear	inverse_linear
      -wbeam			7e-29		7.000000e-29
      -wip			0.65		6.500000e-01
      -wlen			0.025625	2.562500e-02
      
      INFO: feat.c(715): Initializing feature stream to type: '1s_c_d_dd', ceplen=13, CMN='batch', VARNORM='no', AGC='none'
      INFO: acmod.c(166): Using subvector specification 0-12/13-25/26-38
      INFO: mdef.c(518): Reading model definition: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/mdef
      INFO: mdef.c(531): Found byte-order mark BMDF, assuming this is a binary mdef file
      INFO: bin_mdef.c(336): Reading binary model definition: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/mdef
      INFO: bin_mdef.c(516): 42 CI-phone, 137053 CD-phone, 3 emitstate/phone, 126 CI-sen, 5126 Sen, 29324 Sen-Seq
      INFO: tmat.c(149): Reading HMM transition probability matrices: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/transition_matrices
      INFO: acmod.c(117): Attempting to use PTM computation module
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(127): Reading mixture gaussian parameter: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/means
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(242): 42 codebook, 3 feature, size: 
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(244):  128x13
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(244):  128x13
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(244):  128x13
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(127): Reading mixture gaussian parameter: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/variances
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(242): 42 codebook, 3 feature, size: 
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(244):  128x13
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(244):  128x13
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(244):  128x13
      INFO: ms_gauden.c(304): 222 variance values floored
      INFO: ptm_mgau.c(476): Loading senones from dump file /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/sendump
      INFO: ptm_mgau.c(500): BEGIN FILE FORMAT DESCRIPTION
      INFO: ptm_mgau.c(563): Rows: 128, Columns: 5126
      INFO: ptm_mgau.c(595): Using memory-mapped I/O for senones
      INFO: ptm_mgau.c(838): Maximum top-N: 4
      INFO: phone_loop_search.c(114): State beam -225 Phone exit beam -225 Insertion penalty 0
      INFO: dict.c(320): Allocating 138824 * 20 bytes (2711 KiB) for word entries
      INFO: dict.c(333): Reading main dictionary: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/cmudict-en-us.dict
      INFO: dict.c(213): Dictionary size 134723, allocated 1016 KiB for strings, 1679 KiB for phones
      INFO: dict.c(336): 134723 words read
      INFO: dict.c(358): Reading filler dictionary: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/noisedict
      INFO: dict.c(213): Dictionary size 134728, allocated 0 KiB for strings, 0 KiB for phones
      INFO: dict.c(361): 5 words read
      INFO: dict2pid.c(396): Building PID tables for dictionary
      INFO: dict2pid.c(406): Allocating 42^3 * 2 bytes (144 KiB) for word-initial triphones
      INFO: dict2pid.c(132): Allocated 21336 bytes (20 KiB) for word-final triphones
      INFO: dict2pid.c(196): Allocated 21336 bytes (20 KiB) for single-phone word triphones
      INFO: kws_search.c(406): KWS(beam: -1080, plp: -23, default threshold -225, delay 10)
      2017-04-26 19:58:32 DEBUG: Setting up playback handler: SoxHandler
      2017-04-26 19:58:32 INFO: Checking Internet Connection ...
      2017-04-26 19:58:32 DEBUG: Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.amazon.com
      2017-04-26 19:58:33 DEBUG: https://api.amazon.com:443 "GET /auth/o2/token HTTP/1.1" 404 29
      2017-04-26 19:58:33 INFO: Connection OK
      2017-04-26 19:58:33 INFO: AVS token: Requesting a new one
      2017-04-26 19:58:33 DEBUG: Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.amazon.com
      2017-04-26 19:58:34 DEBUG: https://api.amazon.com:443 "POST /auth/o2/token HTTP/1.1" 200 980
      2017-04-26 19:58:34 INFO: AVS token: Obtained successfully
      2017-04-26 19:58:34 DEBUG: Stopping audio play
      2017-04-26 19:58:34 DEBUG: Stopped play. No SoX process to stop
      2017-04-26 19:58:34 DEBUG: Playing audio: /opt/AlexaPi/src/resources/hello.mp3
      Exception in thread Thread-1:
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
          self.run()
        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 763, in run
          self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
        File "/opt/AlexaPi/src/alexapi/triggers/pocketsphinxtrigger.py", line 70, in thread
          _, buf = inp.read()
      ALSAAudioError: Capture data too large. Try decreasing period size
      
      2017-04-26 19:58:34 DEBUG: Started play. sox -q /opt/AlexaPi/src/resources/hello.mp3 -t alsa default vol -6 dB pad 0 0
      2017-04-26 19:58:36 DEBUG: Finished play. 
      
      
      

      Thank you very much for your patience @romain

      Best regards,

      Gerardo

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    • RE: 3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?

      @romain thank you very very much for all this feedback. I was definitely missing some pieces of the puzzle. I will try this again today and post my findings here. Have a great day!

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    • RE: 3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?

      Thank you very very much @romain ! I will go for AlexaPi with MMM-AlexaPi. I spent all yesterday trying to set it up, and I will continue today, your input is very valuable. Just a few newbie, extra questions:

      • AlexaPi service, when running, is “Always On”? It is always listening? How to test it directly without having integrated with MMM-AlexaPi Yet?

      • Where can the activation word be configured? If I just say “Alexa”, should it work?

      • Finally, I spent hours troubleshooting the microphone. It is a very standard Logitech Microphone. I just could not get it working.

      Here are:

      Result from >lsusb command:

      pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsusb
      Bus 001 Device 006: ID 17ef:6019 Lenovo
      Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b3:3025 IBM Corp. NetVista Full Width Keyboard
      Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:0a03 Logitech, Inc. Logitech USB Microphone
      Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
      Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
      Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

      result from the > arecord -L command:

      pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -L
      null
      Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
      pulse
      PulseAudio Sound Server
      sysdefault:CARD=Microphone
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      Default Audio Device
      front:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      Front speakers
      surround21:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
      surround40:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
      surround41:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
      surround50:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
      surround51:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
      surround71:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
      iec958:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
      dmix:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      Direct sample mixing device
      dsnoop:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      Direct sample snooping device
      hw:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      Direct hardware device without any conversions
      plughw:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0
      Logitech USB Microphone, USB Audio
      Hardware device with all software conversions

      Log from AlexaPi

      ● AlexaPi.service - Alexa client for all your devices
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/AlexaPi.service; enabled)
      Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-04-24 10:59:14 CDT; 7s ago
      Docs: https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi/wiki
      Main PID: 1626 (python)
      CGroup: /system.slice/AlexaPi.service
      ├─1626 /usr/bin/python /opt/AlexaPi/src/main.py --daemon
      ├─1638 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
      └─1657 sox -q /opt/AlexaPi/src/resources/hello.mp3 -t alsa default vol -6 dB pad 0 0

      Apr 24 10:59:20 raspberrypi pulseaudio[1638]: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Tried to configure /devices… 10s
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: Exception in thread Thread-1:
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: Traceback (most recent call last):
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: File “/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py”, line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: self.run()
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: File “/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py”, line 763, in run
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: File “/opt/AlexaPi/src/alexapi/triggers/pocketsphinxtrigger.py”, …hread
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: inp = alsaaudio.PCM(alsaaudio.PCM_CAPTURE, alsaaudio.PCM_NORMAL, …ce’])
      Apr 24 10:59:21 raspberrypi python[1626]: ALSAAudioError: Input/output error [front:CARD=Microphone,DEV=0]
      Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

      Thank you so much for your help, I don’t mean to take too much from your time but I am really frustrated :(

      Gerardo
      Mexico City

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    • RE: MMM-AlexaPi

      @clumsy_ninja thank you! I think I found the config line and changed it to magicmirror. Still see nothing in Magic Mirror interface. I will keep testing. Still need to resolve microphone input problems :(

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