awesome :)

I never did this with javascript stuff yet but it’s definetly possible in the node_helper ;)
Appears there are already some libraries, but console input/output stuff I only did with C++ and python so far myself

lmao someone here had to much time :face_with_tears_of_joy:

I understand what you mean. Although I am not quite sure why a program that asks for Wifi name and password should be easier to handle for the average joe then clicking the wifi button on a OS and typing in the password which is a lot close to what they are know from their Windows system and do not have to understand another UI they need only for the first Setup.

Well however when you really want to do this for the average joe so he has absolutely NOTHING to do with anything but their favourite spysystem windows ;) I would write a windows tool for it. Either one doing it over SSH (which I do not really like because the average joe will just leave SSH open with standard key and you have to explain them what the heck is SSH and how to activate it) or just let the user plugin their SD card which they have to do anyways when installing Linux and let the program edit the file including all Wifi logins. For the rest of MM2 you could do a preset Image of debian that already has MM2 setup (maybe create a auto update tool for debian that just checks for OS and MM2 updates once a day

@trich1
yes side of the frame works. just needs to be possible to move the finger into the Infrared light grid it creates ;)
However when you really want a photobooth with basically only the feature make a photo a small gesture sensor or a distance sensor (depending on how you want to trigger) would be a lot cheaper since touch foils are damn expensive in that size (never used one with a mirror but some producers state that some touch foils work with their mirror). And even a IR Frame will probably cost at least around 100$ I guess. Although I am no big fan of the touch + mirror combo anyways because you have fingerprints all over the mirror ^^ which you do not have with gesture control (maybe voice control would be cool aswell :) )
Well but back to your question I never used a IR Frame so far but in general mapping should be quite possible. But you need to check what options are out there for your distro. It appears to be pretty common that you need to map for example with multiple monitors since linux often sees them as one so mapping needs to be done here aswell.
Just search for touchscreen calibration and you should find explanations

@shounak78_mm no problem I use them quite a lot and am really happy with all my respeaker mic arrays so far. All worked pretty awesome. Obviously there are differences, but for a basic speech recognition I even know a ton of people that just use the 2 mic hat from respeaker and are happy with it :)
I myself started with a respeaker 4 mic array for the pi and now use the mic array v2 for it’s onboard speech processing. I can use it in my living room with radio on (not playing over the array) and it still removes pretty much all background music ;)
For my other rooms where I do not play radio that much I will probably just put a pi zero with a 2 mic hat or a 4mic array that streams that only does the hotword detection and then streams the audio to a main device which does the rest of the speech recognition work.

@chassain-0 true some sites don’t work (forgot the reason someone explained it to me a while back xD). But it’s definetly not just youtube working ;)

I don’t know how to set the start size and hide the browser stuff. maybe someone else here knows :)

@shounak78_mm
I own the 4 mic array and it works absolutely fine and the usb mic I use is the respeaker
mic array v2 (it’s totally awesome but pretty expensive for 70$ when you do not need all the features). (the 4 mic requires a driver to run which is explained on their wiki. I guess with the google kit it works similar.)

and @Sean I use the 4 mic array and I know a couple of people using the respeaker 2 mic hat which are all that close to pi. Maybe there are problems when running it at full load permanently, but at least for me thats no usual scenario :)

You could just use a big IFrame to show the website

@Mykle1 that might depend. I used already a usb mic array and a i2s mic array and do not really have any more lagg ;)

ups lol being able to read a text would give me a clear advantage :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
The word google was just to often in the text for me to realise

@Sean yeah it kind of has the advantage to show multiple events at the same time better. Therefor I prefer this design a lot, so still have to think about which one I will go with. The static structure is not that much of a problem for me then I will just change it to my needs ;) The design part is what I absolutely suck in xD

Ik I will do that probably ;)
Well first I still need to set my calendar up since I want to finally self host it to get away from google and similar stuff there. But converting from cal dav or csv to convert to this format should not be a that big deal.

@Sean really like the design :) (although with my daily schedule this would a pain in the arse to manage lol)
Might be interesting to combine this with a normal calendar so you just give it a csv file for example it can use, so you do not have to copy the whole calendar into the new format

Oh I did not even know ring is a product :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

@Sean same about me just guessing ^^ Never used any cloud based voice solution (always using snips)
Still need to post my MagicMirror stuff with snips when I get time and a camera to make a good video on it

Set Up Permissions
In order for your skill to have read or write access to customers’ Alexa lists, it must have the appropriate permissions which you can set up in the developer console. Request Lists Read or Lists Write permissions in your skill only when they are required to support the features and services provided by your skill.
Edit your skill in the developer console.
Navigate to the Build > Permissions page.
Select the Lists Read or Lists Write check boxes, or both, depending on the requirements of your skill.

So you need to ask the for permission for you skill. Although thats still a workaround over a second skill and you can’t directly access them I guess

@Sean I am totally not in the amazon world so I can’t test the stuff, but it seems you can get the items (at least amazon says so

https://github.com/alexa/alexa-cookbook/blob/master/context/lists/src/index.js

thats a example on how to retrieve the list and add/delete items

MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall is a module for using Alexa with MagicMirror. It allows you to hide and show stuff. You generally have Alexa running (wether with normal Alexa or Alexa Pi is not important) and then the Magic Mirror module just calls the API to receive the intent of what you said.
So you can absolutely use it with you normal Alexa. I would just take the MirrorOn TheWall module (might be interesting on it’s own with hiding showing modules and stuff already), so you see how the API with your key gets called and the intents receivedv and just replace the reaction of it by the code for showing you shopping list (you can for example take a big part of it from a shopping list module that has a design you like ;)).
So it should be a fairly easy thing to do. I am personally not using any cloud based voice recognitions for the privacy issue, but doing something similar with a offline speech recognition is definetly on my toDo for this or next week ^^

Those are different types of variables:
The first one is a number the second one a string. Boolean only has the values true and false which are exactly the same as writing 1 and 0. the true and false statement is there for readability in the code but gets replaced by 1 and 0 when executing the program ;)
So when you put quotes to the number it is a text that includes this number, but you need it as a number you can use for example for calculations (obviously convertions are possible)
For strings usually you can use either double or single quotes and both will work. it is usually a thing of consistency (which on is already used) which one you choose.
However there are a couple advantages in using double quotes.

1. JSON notation is written with double quotes (although it might work with single quotes aswell)
2. double quotes are more convenient when your already familiar with other programming languages like C that often use double quotes for strings
3. for people without programming experience double quotes are already familiar from their language where a text is marked with double quotes aswell
4. When you need a single quote in the text you can write
   “It’s a boy”, but you would have to write ‘It's a boy’ using single quotes to mark that the single quote does not end the string.
   However when you use double quotes in the string to mark a text inside it’s the other way around :
   you could write ‘Simon says: “I am happy”’ but with double quotes you need to write “Simon says: "I am happy"”

Hope I could clear the confusion a bit.