@j.e.f.f Thats was my initial plan, to make a custom skill so you could do all sorts of stuff.
Unfortunately I just don’t have the time anymore to continue working on this but I’d be really happy if someone else could.

I also wanted to add some capacitive buttons at the bottom of my mirror to interact with it (change whats shown, brightness, volume etc) but also to manually trigger alexa incase the voice activation is messing up.

@michael_klatt This module doesn’t with work with the AVS sample app. It needs AlexaPi because it has some modifications and starts everything automatically as @lucallmon said.

@borrigan Ahh I see. Maybe I was just using a different module that loaded that stylesheet for me?

I’m not expert in css/js/html so I kinda just modified this stuff till it worked.

Can you do a PR with the fix?

Cheers
Dion

@borrigan During Alexa-Pi setup you can choose a platform. Don’t pick raspberrypi, use magicmirror regardless of where the software is running.

@cyberphox @johnnyboy These issues are definitely AlexaPi issues you are having. If your looking for help i would post on the Alexa-pi/alexapi github or talk on the gitter mentioned above. They will be able to help you for sure as I don’t know that much about the audio, mine just seemed to work for some reason

@Mirrorolentia If you can’t get that one to work or want to try a different one checkout AlexaPi. It’s a python implementation of Alexa made for all sorts of platforms.
You can get it from here: https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi

You can also use this mirror module to give status feedback on the mirror: https://github.com/dgonano/MMM-AlexaPi

Just be sure to pick the magicmirror platform during setup instead of the default raspberrypi

Hey Guys,

MMM-AlexaPi: https://github.com/dgonano/MMM-AlexaPi

This is not a voice control module but rather an integration with an external voice control module to provide visual feedback (and eventually control).
I plan to expand it to do much more like display the alexa GUI cards, timers, alarms etc. AlexaPI uses a wake word but there is also a method for MMM-AlexaPi to initiate a recording.

Dion

@whyjustin said in Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa):

 commands: {
    "mirror mirror": {
      action: 'alexa'
    }
  },

If you edit the above you can adjust the activation of Alexa. Haven’t spent much time with this project recently but IIRC you have to remove sphinx-model-generator/commands.dic and sphinx-model-generator/commands.lm when changing the commands

@whyjustin Yeah thats it. Do i need to record a new training file to replace those or where did the original one come from?

@whyjustin Is it possible to change the activation work in your alexa? I remember seeing it defined in json somewhere but does it require voice training or something?

@whyjustin Thanks for that, I’m new to javascript myself but I’m trying to recruit a mate to give us a hand haha. I’ll post something back if I get anything working.

@christopherm No, I don’t think I solved it. I actually left that work so didn’t need it anymore.

have you checked your output for errors? I was getting the same error as shown in this thread: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/256/typeerror-curr-start-toisostring-is-not-a-function
I assume it was the same issue, something todo with a bad ics file.

@Jopyth said in Alerts not showing?:

@clumsy_ninja Have look at the documentation: You need to set welcome_message in the config (a string).

The documentation says it has a default value so I didn’t enter one. I manually entered a startup message and it showed so all good. Thanks.

@MichMich Is this a documentation error that should be corrected? or not working properly?

I’ve never seen the default alert module show anything and just wondering if its working. The documentation supposedly says it shows a default message on startup but I don’t see it?

My config.js just has the module name as shown in the example config.

@d3r Thanks. I’ve been looking at AlexaPi and i’m not sure how similar the code is but i did notice is has led’s indicating the status (listening, processing, speaking).
https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi

What i really want to achieve is a module for the mirror which shows the visual feedback with a microphone icon and also show the GUI cards alexa service returns. Problem is I’m not sure how to make this hahah I’m only use to writing in C and Java.

@whyjustin What kind of visual feedback does it display on the mirror?

I’m really interested in adding voice control, especially a solution provided by amazon or google with good recognition.
I can see in the video above alexa can answer all sorts of questions but how can this be incorporated into magic mirror to do thing like restart, show and hide modules, etc?

Also, how would alexa get information about things like the current location to give travel times etc?

I guess the end goal would be to have other modules controlling things like lighting (phillips hue?) and using the voice control to turn it on/off & change colour as an example.

@tgriffo Thanks, I can see them now. It looks better than I thought a film would actually.

I bought this film the other day, should have it this week.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/290756560949?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Apparently they use it in dance studios etc where mirror is too expensive so i’m hoping it works quite well. I’ll be sure to post the results.

@tajno the URL is cut off at the “$” sign in the config file because that is how nano displayed it when i copied it. I have double checked it has a ->'<- at the end.

@bhepler Again, cut off with the $, sorry. The one in my log file is anonymised, it has the company name changed as I can’t post that calendar URL publicly.

@andrewchumchal Sorry, the link does, its just been cut off from how nano has displayed it.
If i do a wget or curl I get the file just fine.

@tgriffo are you able to send me some photos or try posting them again?
I’m trying to decide if the quality is good enough with the film or if I should drop the $220 for glass mirror.