C’mon guys, we need 8 more people :)

I am turning on the monitor using a PIR sensor and it is instant. Keep in mind that it also depends on your monitor, some are slower to respond - this is my second monitor, the first one was very slow to respond to any HDMI related commands.

@Sean I have changed the hook phrase to “showtime” and it still doesn’t work.

SPOTIFY_PLAY: {
    pattern : "showtime",
    command: "SPOTIFY_PLAY"
  },

[HOTWORD] Final Result: { detected: true, hotword: 'assistant', file: null }
[AMK2] assistant ready
[AMK2] Conversation starts.
[AMK2] Assistant Text Response:
[AMK2] Transcription: show  --- Done: false
[AMK2] Transcription: shut  --- Done: false
[AMK2] Transcription: showtime  --- Done: false
[AMK2] Transcription: showtime  --- Done: false
[AMK2] end-of-utterance
[AMK2] Transcription: showtime  --- Done: true
{ requestId: '5d433446-0000-2772-8141-089e0827c3f4' } { profileFile: 'default.json', lang: 'en-US' }
[AMK2] Device Action: { requestId: '5d433446-0000-2772-8141-089e0827c3f4' }
[AMK2] Assistant Text Response:
[AMK2] Conversation Completed
null
[HOTWORD] begins.
[HOTWORD] Detector starts listening.

@ChrizZz I have used camera motion detection and I gave it up, because:

1. It is not very reliable (maybe it was just my cheap camera that I used for testing back then)
2. it is resource hungry

Because of that I use an external wireless PIR sensor which is part of my smart home system to turn on/off my SmartMirror and it works great. Since the motion processing happens on my smart home system and the Mirror is turned on/off via SSH command it takes up no resources at all from the MagicMirror which is already at 60% load when using Facial Recognition.

@Sean I will try that and report back. Thanks for the suggestion.

@Sean, I did some more testing and I can confirm that this is the only command that doesn’t work. Maybe I am not understanding it correctly.

My expected results would be:

1. Raspotify is running in the background (but no music is playing)
2. When I say “music please” spotify will start a random song and play it on the MagicMirror

The result however is:

1. Raspotify is running in the background and no music is playing
2. When I say “music please” I see no errors in the logs, however, no music is starting as well
3. To workaround this I start the music from my smartphone or desktop app and switch the player to MagicMirror, after that I can control the player via AssistankMK2

@ChrizZz I followed the tutorial and installed OpenCV and all dependencies in a virtual environment, but that did not go very well afterwards, you have to reconfigure the module with the correct paths and that can be cumbersome, therefore I started on a clean state and installed OpenCV and the dependencies without a virtual envioronment - e.g. follow the same tutorial without the part related to virtual enviornment. That is the most appropriate for our use case.

@Goldjunge_Chriz Sofia, Bulgaria, sir ;)

@Goldjunge_Chriz will you please consider my order for a 73x80 cm mirror with polished edges? I would be glad if you could include a small leftover piece if you have any left so I can test different adhesives on it. I want to glue an aluminum frame to the back of the mirror so I can make a frameless smartmirror.

@Sean yes, the other commands work. I can skip the song, increase/decrease the volume and etc. Also Raspotify is running, because I can start the playback on the mirror from my Desktop/Smartphone app.