@rchase
Yeah I thought that was one of the more attractive features of it. It was cool! I had to make a few tweaks to clear the screen afterwards though. It always pulls the same video for a search term (the first video in the search results), but this can be fixed programmatically to pull a random video in the top 5 or 10 results, or a specific video number in the results (but for that you need to change the utterances to accept a number as well and pass that into the function). But yeah, it was cool! One recommendation is read the instructions, and read them again. If you are like the rest of us on here, you kinda read and then you sorta skip to the numbered instructions and go from there. You need to read the paragraphs and the forum and they will tell you everything you need to know. But yeah it is pretty awesome.

Oh yeah, in order to have Alexa active for the MMonTW to work properly, there are three scripts (including an authentication one with Amazon) that need to be running. I usually start these up manually and haven’t looked into auto-starting them upon pi startup (like most do with their mirror). Hopefully that is possible.

@rchase
I have alexa on my mirror and I used MirrorMirrorOnTheWall. It works well once you get through the oddly non-linear instructions. You have to do one thing on one page and make sure you did another group of to-do’s on another page and so on and in the end hope you hit everything. All in all though I find it very useful as I think Alexa is a powerful platform to have at your disposal. You can enable the full library of Alexa apps (and even your own custom Alexa apps in development mode). I modified the MirrorMirrorOnTheWall app (an awful lot) to have a lot more functionality and a little more practicality. In doing so I realized that when you do I don’t have experience with the other Alexa ports to the MM but with MMonTW I felt that every time I wanted to add even some basic functionality there were a ton of steps. I have to change the intent schema, then the invocation utterances, then the function that is triggered, then push it to the registered Iot device (which is your pi from when you were setting it up), but then you need to make sure you are subscribing to that specific topic there. It can be cumbersome but all in all when you know your way around it and you have an amazon alexa in your mirror it is pretty cool. I’d say go for it. Though its been months since I did mine and I am preparing for a 3000 mile move so I might not be as much help as I’d like to be if you get stuck.