@sdetweil Thank you for the quick answer! Doing that as we speak.Do you however also have any knowledge about MMM-Voice? Running into an error there as well, that’s what prompted the update. Thanks!

When i went to go update, it said i had three files that were preventing it from updating, so i deleted them as i said, was package.json, package-lock.json, and vendor/package.json (I think). After updating, i try to run it and it gives a blank screen with the cursor showing and this is what shows in the terminal.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.8.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

Starting MagicMirror: v2.8.0
Loading config ...
Loading module helpers ...
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: clock.
WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: Cannot find module 'rrule'
Loading module helpers ...
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: clock.
App threw an error during load
Error: Cannot find module 'rrule'
    at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:543:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:35:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:473:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:586:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/node-ical.js:27:13)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/node-ical.js:68:3)
    at Module._compile (module.js:642:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:653:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:561:32)
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
{ Error: Cannot find module 'rrule'
    at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:543:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:35:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:473:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:586:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/node-ical.js:27:13)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/node-ical.js:68:3)
    at Module._compile (module.js:642:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:653:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:561:32) code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' }
MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
Launching application.

It launched and worked fine beforehand, i was just updating because i was getting an error for some reason with MMM-Voice and thought maybe if i updated it would work.

@jmartin1009 this is possible it’s saying this because it’s already there, but i wasn’t sure i figured i’d give it another go. Let me know if there’s anything i should change or try, but i know this mic does work, as it shows up in

arecord -l

and it comes up and i can select it in alsamixer and everything, just can’t get hotword to hear me.

@sdetweil @ejay-ibm well i got a new mic and i tried it out, still no detection for MMM-Hotword. It works for GoogleAssistantMk2 when i click the button on the screen, but no hotword detection. I worried that it may be because of snowboy failing to install properly the first time for some reason, so i went into the module in the console and did npm install and got this:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword $ npm install
npm WARN deprecated hoek@2.16.3: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated boom@2.10.1: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated cryptiles@2.0.5: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm ERR! path /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
npm ERR! code EISGIT
npm ERR! git /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy: Appears to be a git repo or submodule.
npm ERR! git     /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
npm ERR! git Refusing to remove it. Update manually,
npm ERR! git or move it out of the way first.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-03-18T22_16_00_319Z-debug.log

any idea how i can fix this?

@sdetweil yeah it’s the PS3 eye camera microphone, it has a 4 microphone array that alsamixer hates lol

@sdetweil What explains no response from the modules? My mic’s gain in alsamixer? if so how can i fix that? Or should i just get a new mic

@ejay-ibm that is for the MM config.js right? Or is that what you have in the MMM-Hotword.js config file?

@ejay-ibm I also changed it so the sauce wasn’t there and I made it so it said plughw:1 in all of them, but still nothing

@ejay-ibm also is there anyway to change the gain or whatever? I went to alsamixer and went to the capture section and the bar doesn’t move or anything when I speak into my mic. Not sure if anything is supposed to happen but it says both L and R capture are the 100, not sure what that means.

@ejay-ibm @sdetweil what should I have in the module list in the config.js for the magicmirror program for each module? Not sure if I have the right stuff or too much or what

@sdetweil I tried getting rid of the space, I tried adding autorestart=true on both configs, and still no luck :/

@sdetweil is that your config for magicmirror or in the config file or hotword?

@sdetweil I can try removing the space and hope to works, and I had to do the snowboy rebuild already as it said I had an error when I tried to start magicmirror, so that should be okay, so I’ll try deleting the space and if it doesn’t work I will try to rebuild snowboy and try again and I’ll get back to you. Thanks!!

@sdetweil that’s alright, I decided to go with Google Assistant, thanks for your help! I do still need some help with getting that to work though, as I stated in my other post! Thanks!

@ejay-ibm here is my magicmirror config file:

var config = {
	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",

	modules: [
	
		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar"
		},
		{
		    module: "MMM-AssistantMk2",
		    position: "top_bar",
		    config: {
		      record: {
		        recordProgram : "arecord",  
		        device        : "plughw:1, 0",
		      },
		
		      notifications: {
		        ASSISTANT_ACTIVATED: "HOTWORD_PAUSE",
		        ASSISTANT_DEACTIVATED: "HOTWORD_RESUME",
		      },
		    }
		  },
		  {
		    module: "MMM-Hotword",
		    config: {
		      record: {
		        recordProgram : "arecord",  
		        device        : "plughw:1, 0",
		      },
		      autostart:true,
		      onDetected: {
		        notification: function (payload) {
		          return "ASSISTANT_ACTIVATE"
		        },
		        payload: function (payload){
		          return {
		            profile: payload.hotword
		          }
		        }
		      },
		    },
  		},
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left"
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "US Holidays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check",
						url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third"
		},
		{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "Dubuque",
				locationID: "4854529",  //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/; unzip the gz file and find your city
				appid: "6730254e02c0f50e5d951db321f6fa33"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				location: "Dubuque",
				locationID: "4854529",  //ID from https://openweathermap.org/city
				appid: "6730254e02c0f50e5d951db321f6fa33"
			}
		},
		{
    			module: "MMM-EARTH",
    			position: "bottom_right",
    			config: {
        			mode: "Natural",
        			rotateInterval: 15000,
        			MaxWidth: "30%",
        			MaxHeight: "30%",
    			}
		},
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
		{
    			module: 'MMM-ShairportMetadata',
    			position: 'bottom_left',
    			config: {
      			    metadataPipe: "/tmp/shairport-sync-metadata", // location of pipe with shairport-sync metadata
	  			alignment: "center",	// Possible values [left|right|center]. Default: center
    		}
  		},
	]

};

here is the output for aplay -l:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
  Subdevices: 7/7
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I do use PulseAudio because i use the PS3 eye mic, which uses a mic array that alsamixer doesn’t like, but it works when i talk to the assistant, Hotword just doesn’t hear my wakewords.
Here is the output for arecord -l

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: CameraB409241 [USB Camera-B4.09.24.1], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

It seems to work whether i use “plughw: 0” and “plughw: 0, 1”.

@sdetweil I’m not using MMM-Voice, I’m using MMM-Assistantmk2 and MMM-Hotword, hotword pics up the word to wake the assistant and assistant takes care of the rest. I’ve been able to talk to the assistant but hotword doesn’t wake when I say the wakeword.

@sdetweil do you have any knowledge of these modules? You’ve been a great help in my other problems

It works when I get my mouse in the right spot and I click the icon, can talk to it and it talks back, just doesn’t pick up the hotwords :/

@Sean possible for you to help me? I believe this is your module so you would know best haha

I have MMM-Assistantmk2 and MMM-Hotword installed and the little logo comes up on screen on MM but none of the hotwords activate it for some reason :/ can anyone help me? Not sure what’s wrong