@sdetweil
I do have a real Echo device…
Yes I’m familiar with the MMM-AlexaControl module but it seems that you can’t send customized notifications to other modules.
So basically all I want is to say something like “Open Youtube and search for xy”.

@sdetweil
I do have a real Echo device…
Yes I’m familiar with the MMM-AlexaControl module but it seems that you can’t send customized notifications to other modules.
So basically all I want is to say something like “Open Youtube and search for xy”.

I want to control other modules on my Magic Mirror with my Alexa device and interact with them.
Is there a way to turn speech to text so I can communicate with the other modules?
Is there maybe already a module for it?

I had an idea to create a new Alexa Skill on the Amazon Alexa developer account and somehow send the information to my Magic Mirror but I’m not quite sure how this should work.

Any suggestions?

@mmrize
Thank you very much!!! It’s working now. :)

I wrote a little MagicMirror module which web scrapes a website with puppeteer.
Therefore I’ve used async functions to fetch the data.
It’s working fine but as soon as I send it back to my main.js file it appears as a Promise and I can’t process the data.

Any suggestions how to wait for the data before sending it to the main.js file?

...
socketNotificationReceived : function(notification, payload) {
var self = this
switch(notification)
{case"CASE_1":
text = scrape("https...")
this.sendSocketNotification("text",text)
break}}
...
async function scrape(url){
try{
const browser = await puppeteer.launch()
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto(url)

const [el] await page.$x("...")
const txt = await el.getProperty("textContent")
const rawTxt = await txt.jsonValue
browser.close()
return rawTxt} catch {
return "ERROR"}}