@otto I think you can do that but it’s going to be painful since the mirror will listen and react to everything people say near him. The magic word (jarvis, mirrror mirror,etc…) is a safeguard to that behavior.

@otto said in I am givning up.. new install: cannot load mixer controls: Ogiltigt argument Did you tried the command I gave you? Thoses a just to validate that your mic is working, after you can work on alsamixer. The basic command are great tools to make sure stuff is working as you want. Maybe a long shot but did you tried the following solution provided here? https://askubuntu.com/questions/765396/alsamixer-cannot-open-mixer-invalid-argument It seems alsamixer can be tricky to config and some files need to be created manually (sound is muted by default at install).

Hello, iam new to MagicMirror. I am going to install Alexa on on my rip, but I am a bit unsure which one, I noticed it was a couple of different once. And can you recommend any good mic that’s working with Rpi,