@maxbachmann AlexaPi has no control over Magic Mirror… as far as i know… it is just an Amazon Alexa on a Rpi instead of an Echo (why should i buy an Echo for the bathroom when i have the mirror).
The only integration/connection to MM is that it displays the status of Listening, Answering etc. While the reason i want MMM-voice, is to “control” the Magic Mirror… hide modules, show modules etc etc.

There is no consideration or worries as far as privacy, cloud or whatever … we all know how to live with NSA present at home one way or another…some time even with the much larger PLA … LMAO :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I have no idea what these other, separate programs for catching hotwords are … any pointers

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@Sean Same here all… pictures are rotated very few are the right way … the majority of photos are taken with a Samsung Galaxy S8+ and some with older camera
Denis

@strawberry-3-141 Ok so i have a very similar situation i have AlexaPi (and MMM-AlexaPi for visual feedback) and want to use MMM-voice and Hello-Lucy. I have 2 USB microphones (a webcam that i talk to AlexaPI and a USB sound card that i want to use for MMM-voice)
On the config.js i have assigned microphone id of 2 for MMM-voice ( arecord -l and the install of MMM-voice show that alsa as 0 USB webcam as card 1 and USB sound card as card 2)
when i start magic mirror MMM-voice says “initializing” than briefly “Waiting for module commands” than settles on “error”
My questions are:

1. and i am pretty sure i have an answer for this is that AlexaPi and MMM-voice can they use the same mic or not … most likely not .
2. why isn’t using microphone #2 straight forward do i have to twitch anything on alsa config, etc will pulse audio be better and what is the difference ?? how do we mitigate this problem??

I have tested and confirmed that both usb microphones work when they are plugged each by themselves but not when they are both simultaneously plugged in only the webcam would record … i am not sure if i am putting the right parameter here “arecord hw:1,0 -d 10 /tmp/test-mic.wav”

Please any help will be greatly appreciated
Denis

@maxbachmann @Sean It is my understanding that not 2 separate programs (AlexaPi and MMM-voice) use the same resources which is the one and only usb microphone i have right now.
Am i right on this??.. cause boy do i wish to be wrong!!
Has anyone used 2 progs one mic…and i haven’t even tired it but someone said you couldn’t and i think they are right myself… but i will give it a try and hope it works.

I have a question can i use 2 microphones on a raspberry pi ?? Either usb or something like the respeaker where both mics are monitored by different modules one for MM-voice and the other for Alexa Pi … (MM-voice will let you choose a mic ID, where it listens to its wake words)
I Just don’t know how to have raspberry pi’s configuration twitched, which i am sure it needs to be, to have 2 mics working???
Denis

@joern said in Microphone advise for PI2 & voice control:

respeaker 4mic array

I have a question can i use 2 microphones on a raspberry pi ?? Either usb or something like the respeaker where both mics are monitored by different modules one for MM-voice and the other for Alexa Pi … (MM-voice will let you choose a mic ID, where it listens to its wake words)
I Just don’t know how to have raspberry pi’s configuration twitched, which i am sure it needs to be, to have 2 mics working???
Denis

@dmwilsonkc @Mykle1 Thank you gentleman for replying… that was my first question the microphone will be occupied by the Alexa service.
Ok so if i were to add a second microphone since i see that on MMM-voice they have figured in a microphone Id variable… How difficult will it be to have 2 microphones into one Raspberry pi?? Has any one tried that?? Meaning a little usb microphone and the webcam mic i already have there should be 2 USB IDs one for each… or do i need to tweak some settings on the audio input of the Pi that no one knows about??

Thank you again
Denis

@e3v3a
Well not like anyone answered on my first post on this thread right above but my next question is…Do i absolutely have to install the Google Assistant part meaning to configure the API etc for the GA??? … all i need is the mirror voice control to hide and show the modules ?? Will the mirror-control part work without configuring the GA side??
Please let me know
Denis

i second your opinion… any traction on this at all integrating with smarthings.
I am using action tiles in my MM with some simple switch controls …i have connected a joystick mouse to click them on an iframe instance

Hello all,
I have a mirror that is working fantastically, with swipe, and pages modules with sonic sensors, PIR sensor, facial recognition, dht22, relays ad a bunch of modules for me and my wife all working together on the same raspberry pi 3 i also have Alexa Pi a full blown Alexa assistant that only shows on the mirror that is listening and working all of them are working just fine the Alexa pi is using a usb audio device and a mic and for camera i use a raspberry pi camera.

Anyhow my question is if i install MMM-Assistant to voice control the mirror’s modules etc, will it interfere with the Alexa assistant i already got working??? Does it have anything to do with access to the usb audio device which one of the modules will have access to it first?? Or will they both be able to cooperate each respectively answering to their own call signs??

Thank you
It sounds like a great module
Denis

@nowis Ok so i got the chance to try it with your suggestions and i guess my connections are right and it sort of works!!!

I got to read a swipe only once … a Swipe Left and judging from the readings on the console it detects movement but i am unable to replicate any additional swipes granted they are very close to each other and not aligned.
However do these numbers seem right to you?? judging from this pic that i am attaching …what are these reading in the 3 thousand range?

Any pointer in the alignment or calibration of the sensors and when i get it to read the swipes left and right correctly does that mean the pages are going to be go left and right also meaning if i swipe from left to right the pages are going to ump one forward and if i swipe from light to left the MM pages are going to go backwards?? that’s our ultimate goal isn’t it

thanks again
Denis

ps. I cant upload a image so here is a text copy of it

Start: Right
[MMM-Swipe] Left : [{“dist”:“158”},{“dist”:“3076”},{“dist”:“5593”},{“dist”:“13”},{“dist”:“280”}]
[MMM-Swipe] Right: [{“dist”:“7”},{“dist”:“3054”},{“dist”:“8”},{“dist”:“165”},{“dist”:“237”}]
[MMM-Swipe] ----> Swipe Left
[MMM-Swipe] -------------------------
[MMM-Swipe] Start: Left
[MMM-Swipe] Left : [{“dist”:“4”},{“dist”:“2805”},{“dist”:“143”},{“dist”:“7”},{“dist”:“151”}]
[MMM-Swipe] Right: [{“dist”:“12”},{“dist”:“9”},{“dist”:“12”},{“dist”:“154”},{“dist”:“3”}]
[MMM-Swipe] -------------------------

@nowis Thank you very much for the quick reply i will try it as soon as i get some free time …can’t do much on the weekends. I will report back any changes or difficulties i might have
have a great remeinder of the weekend
Denis

@nowis Sorry for the late reply i did figure out the math statistic on my own “…the power of research on the internet” :)
and also a simple npm install fixes “… the got 53 and expected 48 issue”

Everything on my end is working nicely i got no errors on my Magic Mirror and i have a lot of modules… however i can’t test the MMM-Swipe …granted it is not installed in the exact position where it is going to ultimately be. Mirror’s Raspi is still on my desk hooked to the monitor, wired though with the sonic sensors… cause i just got done with the programming part and have not started with the physical built of the mirror yet but i had a couple of question regarding the wiring of the two sonic sensors!!

Are both of the trigger pins for both sensors connected to the same Rpi GPIO?? How can i test if my hand movement can move the pages?? I have tried but nothing happens the module on the software side has no errors but i don’t know if it works!!

How far apart should the centers of the 2 sensor pairs be from each other ultimately on the mirror frame??

Any help will be greatly appreciated
thank you
Denis

@cruunnerr you are the man that worked
thank you

Hi you all i upgraded to V2.2.2 last night and all in all it went good the only initial problem was that it will abort due to local weather changes being not committed but i solved that with “git status” and after that “git reset --hard” on the MagicMirror directory as stated on the github notes.

When i started the magic mirror however it through “npm start” (i dont use “pm2” ) i got a complete black screen (had to use ctrl-alt-del to kill electron to get out of it as ctrl-q will not do anything) and on the terminal i could see that MMM-Swipe was the culprit i commented out “MMM-Swipe” and the second issue was with “MMM-PIR-sensor” after commenting those 2 out everything else was working perfectly. The error was the same for both modules the expected 50 and got 54 or something to that nature i don’t remember the exact words but i have to re=crash it again when i get home.
Does any one knows how to get rid of this issue which i am assuming should be easily fixed via commands without going the long route, and the only one i know, of deleting the modules and reinstalling them???
thank you all any help will be greatly appreciated
Denis

@nowis

Hi there i followed your instructions step by step and got everything installed from your fork for MMM-Swipe, however when i add the MMM-Swipe config parameters to the MM’s config.js file and start the Magic Mirror i get a blank screen and nothing else .
Only after ctr-alt-del and manually killing the MagicMirror instance (ctrl+q does nothing in this case) i am able to get back to Rpi’s desktop.
After inspecting the MagicMirror npm start messages i found out that MMM-Swipe and some error with math-statistics module (i do not have a MagicMirror math statistics module) being unavailable that seems to be the culprit of it all, it also seems that the math statistic’s module is a node.js package of MMM-Swipe.
If i go back to MagicMirrors nonfig.js and comment out the MMM-Swipe module everything works just fine with my MagicMirror … what do you think it is happening??
Does it have anything to do with maybe the physical sensors?? They are wired just as they are supposed to according to the schematics but maybe they are not working?!?!?!
I am unable to give it an answer by myself so any help will be greatly appreciated
Thank you in advance
Denis

Hi you all,
I want to do the exact same thing in the upper third region i want to have a module on the left and a module on the right how do i do that i have no clue??
I have no experience with css or html
so i need a step by step per say :)

i will greatly appreciate it if anyone can help

Denis

LOL never mind i got it… I am retarted :) :)
i was testing it on Saturday and Sunday so it was just not displaying since i still had the 0 and 6 hide days LOL
thank you
Great work

@BanksyPaint @j.e.f.f
Hi there i am having the same exact issue with the MyCommute module.
It was working fine until i got the notification of the update than no more displaying of my commutes and i see a spike in cpu usage to almost 100% .
I have cheked my google API key and it is current … i did the git pull commant do update and it did not fix the issue … i npm unistalled it removed it completely went back and git clone again and npm install and still the same issue
Like i said it was working just fine before and nothing has changed on the MM config file other than adding a couple of new modules.
What do you think it is happening??
Any help will be greatly appreciated and it really is a great module