i see this
-l = -L (lowercase)
~/MagicMirror/modules$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: U0x46d0x825 [USB Device 0x46d:0x825], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
also the bug i spoke to is also using Snowboy… the bug is that when spooling audio via stdout, arecord’s size counter wraps at 18 hours(2gig) , and no more audio is captured. only fix is to kill arecord and restart it (means restarting mirror app)
@pkj i use a webcam on my MM as well, and use github motion for my MM-SleepWake module, and MM-voice/HelloLucy for the voice recognition
none of that uses python.
On a different Smart mirror platform (smart-mirror) that uses arecord to capture the voice sounds, there is a problem like u describe, due to a bug in arecord, but it starts to fail around 20 consecutive hours…
what modules are u using?
@postremalone find a website that provides news for your country or state, and then find the RSS link for that.
most websites do not have news for ‘all’ locations…
i copied the config info from the mm-easypix readme, and pasted into the config.js modules section, and restarted the mirror… no other changes
@mykle1 unless the files or folder have the wrong permissions…
@rijosroberto i didn’t notice the list had switched to a second page… i had replied, but it didn’t show (on second page), so I accidentally replied again… and then deleted it
@rijosroberto no… that one doesn’t process the media link either
the code doesn’t know about anything but the text of the items…
you would have to change the code, and use some player, and … I don’t know what else
@rijosroberto i am guessing the RSS module doesn’t know about non-text content…
from the news items
media:content url=
@tnp0327 before the modules is the startup of the node_helpers… if u can scroll back up the console window, you might find something else…
have u tested to make sure the mic is working? with the rec command?
rec somefile.wav
on the bottom of the console window should be a meter like bar that moves when u speak…
then you can control-z out of the rec command and then play somefile.wav to see how it sounds…
@tnp0327 can u minimize the mirror and look at the console log of the terminal window… maybe there is some other error…
minimize = alt-spacebar, n
have u restarted the mirror a few times, without reboot?
the sound process does NOT get restarted…
get back to the commandline and do
ps -ef | grep pocket
and then kill that process so it can be restarted…
or reboot…
i created this little script for a prior mirror runtime that I use here too
#!/bin/bash
ps -ef | grep pocket | grep -v "color=auto" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo kill -9
ps -ef | grep node | grep -v "color=auto" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo kill -9
@rijosroberto might be an error…
alt-spacebar, n to minimize the mirror screen and see the console log in the terminal window where u did npm start (this will show the debug/errors from the node_helpers)…
and/or ctrl-shift-i (letter i) to open the debug console, select the console tab
(this will show the debug from the modules)
click on the link in the web page to select it (where the page says ‘XML’) , and then copy the URL (address) line