Hi guys,

I am currently building a voicecontrolled room using snowboy hotword detection module but it is very insensitive with the commands, meaning they get triggered by normal conversations, too.

Therefore I want to activate the voicecontrol module with another voicecontrol module and a trigger word.
To do this I have to disable voicecontrol module 2 until the trigger word is detected by voicecontrol module 1.

Does anybody know of a possibility to freeze/disable/stop a module and start it again?

Thanks in advance!
DevilRev

@DevilRev You can also do that, just add the line

this.hide(0);

to the module start up section. However you will need to stash (or commit) these changes later on when you want to update the module.

@DevilRev I think this is currently not possible within the core application. I also wanted this for my remote control, however I concluded that for now it is sufficient, to add the module to the config, and restart the application in this case.

However this might be worth being added to the core.

@DevilRev you can use child process exec to run it in the node_helper https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_exec_command_options_callback

@strawberry-3.141
Hi, at first thanks for taking the time and thanks for you help it sounds like a promising solution but I still don’t seem to get this working.

I used p.get_device_info_by_index() to find out the index of my USB microphone, which is 2, and added input_device_index=2 to the snowboydecoder file BUT it still seems to somehow use the onboard audio card 0 and I have no idea why or what I did wrong.

I uploaded the error shown when launching the magic mirror to pastebin maybe it can help you help me, I really want to solve this!
http://pastebin.com/R1n3TmbP

Also my snowboydecoder config file on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/U0yh4X1f
maybe I added it at the wrong place but I was thinking this is the right place for it and didn’t know what to do with line 115.

I really hope you can help me, thanks!