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@Peter said in Which Voice Control module is fit for me?:

@E3V3A I learned from this forum that Jessie works better with MM than Stretch, thats why I use Jessie.

Yeah, I never had any problem with Stretch, so I think that is just an artificial impression due to less info available, that is based on it. I haven’t seen any facts backing that up. Actually, as a distribution concerned, most stuff just works and what doesn’t is usually the problem of the user (me). No system works out-of-the-box unless you use some pre-compiled image. We hate those, don’t we!?

@tbbear Great!! Jesus! I mean Robert! You’re very brave jumping through all those hoops.

I’m now at the point of looking to use either MMM-Assistant or MMM-voice.
As for the music being picked up by voice control, perhaps there are some alternative solutions we can think of? I’m thinking:

1. Use MM to play your music!
2. Use a PIR to either:
   a. disable/pause the music
   b. lower the volume significantly
3. combine with a hardware gpio button, it could even be an IR or capacitive button which you could connect to the mirror itself and if you touch the mirror, then it activates.

Question: What is the status of Alexa these days? (Which one did you use?)

E.g. People are still saying it really make your RPi suffer. Were you able to run all your other MMM’s while Alexa was working?

@Peter BTW. Jesse is way outdated, you should have stretch. Alexa sucks, only because they insist in using JAVA and 3 concurrent terminals, bringing your RPi to the knees?

@Peter Hi Peter! It seem we are all in the same position as you. Trying to add Voice interaction (not just command and control) to your Pi is a serious PITA obstacle. I’ve tried to collect some info on these modules etc, but now I’m more confused and disappointed that ever. It seem that there simply isn’t any instance where you can just install a MM module and some npm package and have it up and running. We believe that it is all about monetizing this technology as all of the serious contenders like Amazon Aexa, Google Asisstant, Bing whatnot, and countless companies, are all requiring a bunch of back and forth API’s, keys, files while collecting everything in between about you.

In an ideal world we should be able to just make a request like this:

arecord "Yo! Alexa, can you tell me when ISS will pass over London next time?" | theMagicAPI | aplay "Hey Buddy, the international spacestation will pass over london at 03:00 tomorrow morning."

In fact I suggest we hack together such an API. Basically we would do this:

• We create a pool API that pool together all effin’ AI APIs and requests. (A wrapper!)
• Everyone signup to all services (GA, Alexa, Bing etc) we all get an API token, but then we send it to the pool and all requests will be mixed together and the api user will always get a response.
• Tracking of individual user voice requests will be anonymized by mixing (much like DuckDuckGo)

@Sean
Hi Sean, what did you finally end up using?
As you might have seen I started a thread for trying to better understand all the differetn voice modules. As MM beginner, none of them seem very straight forward, since almost all of them require 2-3 other dependencies.

@chef Hi Chef!

Yes, I recently had the same “issues”. Pretty much everything using/parsing JSON are Promises, almost by default, but listen to this. You can probably ignore most of this, including any async/await stuff. Please look how my Flights module is parsing the promises from the API. If not there, look at the api itself. In addition you might even wanna use the Tabulator thing for your own purpose.

Follow my post HERE to update nodejs and requirements.

In addition you should really consider updating your distro to Raspbian Stretch (full), and

1. Don’t install MM as root
2. Don’t install outside /home/pi

But by all means, please try the lite first, and let us know any dependency issues.

thanks :)

Would you be willing to have/make an option to make the items horizontal instead of vertical? So to save space, since they are only numbers?