Topics created by Davepre

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

@bminer1 That’s normal, there is multiple type of user in linux with different level of permission, it’s for safety (that you or a virus doesn’t destroy your operating system). When you are connected to your regular user (pi if you are using raspbian) you have only access in writing to your home folder. However, the pi user is also a “sudo” user, which mean that you can get higher permission in exchange of providing the right password (which is your regular password in raspbian).
To do that you write sudo your_command , for example sudo nano /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml . you’ll be ask to enter a password and then you can edit your file.
It’s like being administrator on windows, but with a password instead of a window that ask you if you want to run as administrator