Your node,npm versions are way outdated!

Follow my post HERE to update nodejs and requirements.

and

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

@ryck AFAICT you can’t even search without an API key.

pm2 kill kills everything!

I just want to inform the rest of the forum members, that in case you think I come across as a bit hardass here, I’m in good contact with @sispheor who I think understand now, what the problems are.

What are they?

• How to make great project modules more reachable outside the developer expert community!
• Everyone want to talk to their computers, Google, Alexa, Siri, Jarvis, AI-this-that-and-what-not!

A hot KISS tip for writing any kind of SW installation documentation:

• Ask your girlfriend, boyfriend or 9 year old kid, who has not used it before to follow it.

Could they complete it within 1 hour?

No? - Then it’s shit written documentation.

@sispheor

I don’t know what you mean by having all info in one place

What I mean is:

People already has MM installed, so they go to MMM-kalliope in hope to just get it working/installed, but instead just find:

Module to bind Kalliope with your Magic Mirror.
…
Note: On Kalliope, a neuron is available to talk with this module directly.

Huh!? WTF is a neuron!? What is that? Well…ok.

So they go to kalliope_neuron_magic_mirror and find the same screenshot there…but still no installation info to follow. Eh, what does this do, and why is not just part of the MMM? Circular back link to MMM-kalliope, since there is no ref link back to main kalliope.

By this time I’m already annoyed, but try to persist and follow:

Kalliope installation documentation

Then … I have to follow the next link:

Please follow the right link bellow to install requirements depending on your target environment:
Raspbian (Raspberry Pi 2 & 3)

and the next one…and now I’m totally sick of shitty instructions. And whatever was good, I’ve already forgotten.

One page please!?

I think it should be simple enough for you guys to do, especially for simple unified devices like the RPi’s, where everyone is pretty much running the same stuff.

@antnorwe Follow my post HERE to update nodejs and requirements.

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

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

Yes, looks very nice. I love the minimalist presentation.
Was browsing over China… OMG! The sensors were overloaded showing 999 and far above 200 otehrwise. crazy!

@sispheor Sorry, but I would never use a pre-compiled image of anything. It just doesn’t make sense. Most people already has a bunch of stuff installed that they don’t want to loose.

So from what I understand from your github comment, we need to install at least 3 separate Kalliope things in order to use it. Now, that’s quite a bunch of work, and a lot of separate reading. It would be great to have all steps in one place.

No, I don’t want to sound pessimistic or anything, but I believe in trying to keep basic installation info in one place. I’m so sick of dealing with the lack of documentation and easy to follow instructions for 99% of what you find on github. Those things alone can be total project killers.

KISS principle! (At least to get up and running.)

I really like the look and feel to this, at least from your video. But I think we would need a complete walk-through to install this. In addition, would be good to know the performance for RPi3’s.

Is there any complete installation docs somewhere?

It’s this one: https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-EARTH
Very nice!
But the one on the video seemspinning much faster. @Mykle1 what are your config setting for that?

@Mykle1 Whats that rotating planet? (Is it earth? – No, the module?)

Added this: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Voice-Related-Modules

Please help fill in the details for your favorite voice modules!

Hope you guys like. So please let me know if there is something you don’t like or that can be improved.

Cheers!

Here are some:

MMM-alexa
MMM-AlexaPi
MMM-Assistant
MMM-awesome-alexa
MMM-GoogleAssistant
MMM-Hello-Mirror
MMM-Jarvis-Voice-Control
MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall
MMM-SUSI-AI
MMM-Voice-Control
MMM-voice

alexa-voice-service.js
AlexaPi
Hello-Lucy
magic-mirror-voice
snowboy
voicecontrol

There seem to be many different voice modules available, but often looking at their repositories they have not been updated or maintained for a long time.

I’m looking for a working module to:

• Have an Alexa-like functionality. (I.e. Asking a question and getting an answer.)
• Having a MM voice control, to switch modules or pages

What are you using and how well does it work?

Since, you know I love lists… perhaps we should make a Wiki list of the different voice modules, their development status, quality, dependencies etc.

perhaps:

| Name | DevStatus | CustomWord? | UsesAI? | PrivateData? | ConfigDifficulty | MM-Quality | Description |

| Lola | fake | yes | yes | no | easy | great! | An uber-duper SHE OS module that solves the question of life |

give or take…

This sound cool. But your need depends on how you want to interact with multiple instaces.

• One master MM with multiple non-interactive slaves:
  • Just open browser on new device and point to master MM IP, and expand to full-screen
• One master MM with multiple, one-at-the-time interactive slaves:
  1. Need some hardware hacking: try to find a way to connect several PIR, microphone to multiple monitors, could be over cable, wifi or bluetooth. (Seem hard and ugly to implement)
  2. Implement some kind of HDMI switching mechanism
• One master MM with multiple, all-independent interactive slaves:
  • Do what’s described above with using mm1,mm2,mm3,.... This surely would eventually overload a RPi, as you add different and concurrent modules.

IDK. But it sound to me that it is an issue of Amazon blocking some functionality, when using Alexa-Pi… Perhaps try with another solution and compare? (in that case I’d clone the SD card and make a fresh install using another alexa ?)

BTW. Is there a Amazon cloud control in there somewhere? Perhaps you need to enable image, video searches?

@Mykle1 Have you seen this too?
Another thing, it seem that there are only night events tracked… Is that correct?

Any idea why the rise times from the open API is 20 min off from that provided by the spot-the-station?

Yeah, I’ve been telling people around that the WiFi FW update is dangerous, especially is your wifi and bluetooth is working fine with your old FW. Problem seem to be that the RPi package maintainers doesn’t bother to actually write the versions or changelogs for the FW. This is extremely annoying and (eh-hm…) plain stupid.

Normally apt show packagename would show you more details and versions etc.
For the RPi FW, they tell you fcuk about anything you didn’t already know, while keeping an old date in the version string.