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Recently bought Amazon Echo for kids to give me option to interact with voice control for some learning, so far kids happy asking questions but it got me thinking to what it takes to implement voice commands for PiHome. any one have any experience in voice command with Google Home and Amazon Echo?
I rarely use my phone to interact with pihome. Day to day usage is almost entirely through google assistant...here is my method Link to pihome google voice setup
@scottagecheeseandcrackers almost forgot about that post, does same apply to Amazon Echo? can all the setup be done on Raspberry pi without external dependency ?
Yep...it should. My voice control runs on my pihome raspberry pi - very low CPU usage. I don't have an Amazon echo, but it looks like you would just need to add the following plugin to node-red to get it to work - node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2
Added basic BOOST control using Belkin WeMo emulation. Amazon echo need to be on the same network as PiHome. Install using 'sh install_echo.sh'. Tell Echo 'discover devices' then if it finds the zone names, you can tell Echo 'zone name on' or 'zone name off'
@twa127 you are a legend, one small question, your pull request have any external dependency? i m not home yet but i can not wait to try this.
ps: i wish you can see excitement on my face
:-) yep only 'pip install requests' and I've put that in the 'install_echo.sh'
By the way I've set it up as a service called 'pihome_amazon_echo.service' which gets configured by install
@twa127 on my default img,
root@pihome:/var/www# cd amazon_echo/
root@pihome:/var/www/amazon_echo# sh install_echo.sh
sudo: pip: command not found
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pihome_amazon_echo.service → /lib/systemd/system/p ihome_amazon_echo.service.
i had to install
sudo apt-get install python-pip
here is the service status
`Installing collected packages: idna, urllib3, certifi, chardet, requests Successfully installed certifi-2019.11.28 chardet-3.0.4 idna-2.9 requests-2.23.0 urllib3-1.25.8 Failed to start pihome_amazon_echo.service: Unit pihome_amazon_echo.service has a bad unit file setting. See system logs and 'systemctl status pihome_amazon_echo.service' for details. root@pihome:/var/www/amazon_echo# systemctl status pihome_amazon_echo.service ● pihome_amazon_echo.service - Echo Loaded: bad-setting (Reason: Unit pihome_amazon_echo.service has a bad unit file setting.) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-03-23 17:46:44 GMT; 3min 2s ago Main PID: 1378 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Mar 23 17:46:44 pihome python[1378]: import requests Mar 23 17:46:44 pihome python[1378]: ImportError: No module named requests Mar 23 17:46:44 pihome systemd[1]: pihome_amazon_echo.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Mar 23 17:46:44 pihome systemd[1]: pihome_amazon_echo.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Mar 23 17:49:16 pihome systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/pihome_amazon_echo.service:10: Unknown lvalue '' in section 'Install', ignoring Mar 23 17:49:16 pihome systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/pihome_amazon_echo.service:20: Unknown lvalue '' in section 'Install', ignoring Mar 23 17:49:16 pihome systemd[1]: pihome_amazon_echo.service: Service has more than one ExecStart= setting, which is only allowed for Ty Mar 23 17:49:17 pihome systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/pihome_amazon_echo.service:10: Unknown lvalue '' in section 'Install', ignoring Mar 23 17:49:17 pihome systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/pihome_amazon_echo.service:20: Unknown lvalue '' in section 'Install', ignoring Mar 23 17:49:17 pihome systemd[1]: pihome_amazon_echo.service: Service has more than one ExecStart= setting, which is only allowed for Ty `
anything missing or i m doing something wrong?
Hi,
to create the unit file manually
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/pihome_amazon_echo.service
enter the following text and save
[Unit] Description=Echo After=multi-user.target
[Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /var/www/amazon_echo/echo_pihome.py Restart=on-abort
[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
to enable the service -
sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable pihome_amazon_echo.service sudo systemctl start pihome_amazon_echo.service
@twa127 my bad, i ran script few times and end up multiple entries in /lib/systemd/system/pihome_amazon_echo.service now i have service up and running but echo can not find any device. do i have to add any skills to echo?
hi,
I did not add any skills.
The Pi and Echo need to be on the same network.
You can run in debug mode by stopping the service with 'systemctl stop pihome_amazon_echo.service' then run from the 'amazon_echo' directory issue the command 'python echo_pihome.py'
my echo and pi are on same network only difference is pi is wired and echo is wifi but same rounter same ip range, here is output
root@pihome:/var/www/amazon_echo# python echo_pihome.py DEBUG:root:Listening for UPnP broadcasts DEBUG:root:got local address of 192.168.99.2 DEBUG:root:UPnP broadcast listener: new device registered DEBUG:root:FauxMo device 'First Floor' ready on 192.168.99.2:52001 DEBUG:root:UPnP broadcast listener: new device registered DEBUG:root:FauxMo device 'Hot Water' ready on 192.168.99.2:52002 DEBUG:root:UPnP broadcast listener: new device registered DEBUG:root:FauxMo device 'Ground Floor' ready on 192.168.99.2:52000 DEBUG:root:Entering fauxmo polling loop
as far as i know there is no firewall on my rpi, and not iptables either (the usual suspect)
echo can not find any device, "i couldn't find smart home device" it isn't firewall as i just did port scan and 52000 to 52002 are open, if i stop service all three ports are not responding so it mean script is working its my echo have some issues. :(
we could do with someone else to give it a try, it ran okay on both my RPi and Beaglebone
little help from raspberry pi forum link
if i have python echo_pihome.py running, and from second pi i run following command (dont ask me what is is doing i think it simulate an alexa request)
echo -e "M-SEARCH\r\nurn:Belkin:device:**" | nc.traditional -u 239.255.255.250 1900
on my rpi i can see its working so something is wrong with my echo.
DEBUG:root:Responding to search for First Floor DEBUG:root:Responding to search for Hot Water DEBUG:root:Responding to search for Ground Floor
did bit more digging and my echo is looking for response on port 5353 or 1900, even if i change port in python script echo still unable to find pihome.
Hi what port scanner are you using and I’ll post a screenshot of what mine looks like
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did bit more digging and my echo is looking for response on port 5353 or 1900, even if i change port in python script echo still unable to find pihome.
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How about trying pi connect to WiFi
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did bit more digging and my echo is looking for response on port 5353 or 1900, even if i change port in python script echo still unable to find pihome.
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@pihome-shc i had same issue as your in first: end up with multiple entries in /lib/systemd/system/pihome_amazon_echo.service (should have read all the thread before proceeding but i guess i was very excited) but after sudo apt-get install python-pip and removing extra entries i can start service but amazon echo cannot find any device. But running from second ssh session script is responding. echo -e "M-SEARCH\r\nurn:Belkin:device:**" | nc.traditional -u 239.255.255.250 1900
i will investigate this further may be its my router, pihome id doing what is meant to do,
@twa127 any specific device i have to add? on Amazon Alexa app tap on top right ->Add Device->Other->Discover Devices is this right ?
I just said ‘find my devices’ but tried deleting and then using the app as you described and that worked okay as well
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@twa127 any specific device i have to add? on Amazon Alexa app tap on top right ->Add Device->Other->Discover Devices is this right ?
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i thought it is my broadband router, i tried different router but no progress, @pihome-shc what port scanner you are using?
what exactly is your network setup ie Rpi on Ethernet with no WiFi and Echo on Wifi ?
i have rpi on wifi connected to this different router, and echo to over wifi, i will try pi on Ethernet now.
just tried my test system Rpi connected via Ethernet with WiFi down, Echo Wifi both on the same router, works fine. The same if Rpi Ethernet down and connected via Wifi
here is output of my service status, now, rpi is on ethernet and echo on same network. i think only common thing between my setup is @pihome-shc is i m using his img file for my rpi.
root@pihome:~# sudo systemctl status pihome_amazon_echo.service
● pihome_amazon_echo.service - Echo
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pihome_amazon_echo.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-03-24 13:37:31 GMT; 1min 53s ago
Main PID: 625 (python)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 2319)
Memory: 16.4M
CGroup: /system.slice/pihome_amazon_echo.service
└─625 /usr/bin/python /var/www/amazon_echo/echo_pihome.py
Mar 24 13:37:31 pihome systemd[1]: Started Echo.
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:Listening for UPnP broadcasts
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:got local address of 10.0.0.11
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:UPnP broadcast listener: new device registered
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:FauxMo device 'First Floor' ready on 10.0.0.11:52001
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:UPnP broadcast listener: new device registered
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:FauxMo device 'Hot Water' ready on 10.0.0.11:52002
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:UPnP broadcast listener: new device registered
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:FauxMo device 'Ground Floor' ready on 10.0.0.11:52000
Mar 24 13:37:34 pihome python[625]: DEBUG:root:Entering fauxmo polling loop