Hi everyone, heres to report that I was successful.
In a nutshell i did exactly what @lucallmon recommended but for others to follow my procedures in order to fix this issue i will go step by step.

Initially I had installed AlexaPi on the raspberry pi 3 and during the installation process i was asked to name the platform. Since its a pi i selected “raspberrypi” which (looking back now) seemed to have caused the issue.

However as a first step I changed the Output handler from “vlc” to “sox” to see whether that would do the trick:

I opened the console and typed in

Sudo nano /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml

Under the 4th paragraph there is the line “playback_handler: “vlc””

I changed “vlc” to read “sox”

(At this stage i saved, restarted and noticed that i could run magic mirror and alexa would also respond but the mic icon was still crossed out so i went back to config.yaml again and continued as follows)

Furthermore the device named in the config file was still “raspberrypi” and i wanted to change that too.

So wherever I saw the words "device: “raspberrypi” i changed that simply to “device: “magicmirror””

I changed 4 entries in total:

• In the “sound” paragraph in the very beginning (line 3 of the paragraph),
• in the paragraph following the playback_handler (line 4 of the paragraph ) “# output device:…”
• 2 paragraphs below that (line 1 of the paragraph ) "# some device:…#
• and finally towards the bottom theres a paragraph called “Platform” (line 2 of the paragraph )

After changing those lines I hit ctrl, x confirmed to save the file with yes and confirmed the file name with enter.

I rebooted the pi and started up magic mirror and now everything is working!!!

One thing to note though is that the changing from “vlc” to “sox” in my case caused alexa not to greet me with “hello” upon startup anymore. But since everything else seems to be working now I can live with that.

Hope this helps everyone who encounters a similar problem. Thanks again for all the tips!

Best regards / Dave

@johnnyboy I will report back once I got the chance to test it out tonight. I am still stuck at work but hope to have positive news still later on.

Best regards / David

@johnnyboy Sorry, I am currently traveling with work and dont have access to my setup, but I am back end of this week and have a look. I will report back Friday night :)

@johnnyboy so sorry for late reply. Only now got the chance to look for the config.yaml file.

Yes, my config.template.yaml is (same as yours) in opt/Alexapi/src.

However my config.yaml file is in etc/opt/Alexapi.
Thats the only file in that folder.

Is that what you were looking for?

Best regards / David

@uros76 Thats actually a very good point. I did not realise that. I really like what you’ve done with this. Would love to build one myself

@uros76 This looks great! For anyone interested in more/similar e-paper projects theres one called InkyCal here that looked interesting as well. InkyCal on Reddit

The reddit isn’t the most active, but discord is

Hi everyone, I am in the process of building my mirror and its coming along nicely.
Its supposed to be a gift for my girlfriend to help her get ready in time (it already displays traffic and the next buses etc).
Now I was thinking whether anyone has tried to implement a voice controlled timer that gets displayed on the screen (My mirror wont have a touch screen).

Amazon Echo has such a function but I dont think Alexapi supports that command yet. atleast it didnt when I tried it out a couple of weeks ago.

Does anyone know how this would be implemented or whether any of the voice control modules out there support this (I couldnt find it in any of the voice control modules available)

Best regards / David

Thanks a lot Nick! This will surely solve the issue for me atleast!

Really appreciate you taking the time!

Rgds / Dave

Thanks for looking into this. I am at work at the moment and dont have access to the mirror here, but will send you the config files as soon as I am home!

thanks and best regards
Dave

Hi Nick,
thank you very much for your reply.

I am currently only using one bus stop. “The Latchmere” stop LS which has the AtcoCode “490013443E”.

Thanks again for looking into this!
Dave

Hi nwootton,
thanks for the great module. I am using it for my mirror project and encountered a weird issue:

I use it for two bus routes (44 and 344) and what I noticed during the weekend is that very early buses (like 01:00 in the morning or so) got delayed. BUT they got delayed more and more according to the module which causes the timing to be off. Eventually the timer showed something like “1756 Minutes late”. These late runners did not disappear but would always stay on top of the list.

I understand that this might be a bug on TFL’s side but is there a way to have buses that are, lets say more than 60 minutes delayed, shown as cancelled or have them faded out? For routes that are running like every 5-10 minutes usually this might make sense I think.

Thanks in advance
Dave

@johnnyboy so sorry for late reply. Only now got the chance to look for the config.yaml file.

Yes, my config.template.yaml is (same as yours) in opt/Alexapi/src.

However my config.yaml file is in etc/opt/Alexapi.
Thats the only file in that folder.

Is that what you were looking for?

Best regards / David

@johnnyboy Sorry, I am currently traveling with work and dont have access to my setup, but I am back end of this week and have a look. I will report back Friday night :)

@mymmbeginner I am happy this post helped. As a newbie here I am really impressed with the support from this community as well. Glad to be a part of it!