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Bring both Google Assistant and Alexa to your Raspberry Pi
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Doesn't connect to google on a PineA64 #19

Closed kronflux closed 6 years ago

kronflux commented 7 years ago

Hey! I'm using a PineA64 board, which I've managed to get AlexaPi working on. The Alexa side works perfectly. No issues, in fact better than I thought it would. Google, however, locks the whole thing up. Upon trying to run the assistant manually using: /opt/AlexaPi/env/bin/python -m googlesamples.assistant --credentials /etc/opt/AlexaPi/assistant_credentials.json I get: INFO:root:Connecting to embeddedassistant.googleapis.com which sits there indefinitely. Any thoughts on diagnosing/debugging this?

(just as an FYI, I'm using https://github.com/swkim01/RPi.GPIO-PineA64 which replaces the standard RPi.GPIO, but I can't imagine that has anything to do with it. Especially where Alexa works flawlessly)

xtools-at commented 7 years ago

Hi @kronflux ,

A little background first :) AssistantPi is basically AlexaPi, with Google Assistant Python SDK 0.2.1 hooked into it. The installer runs the AlexaPi setup and then performs the necessary steps for installing Goggle Assistant seperately, and does the audio config for both. When you fire it up, the AlexaPi script starts the Google Assistant process in the background too, and communicates with it via Pipes. So this is no seamless integration, but much more a proof of concept. AlexaPi has it's weaknesses (it's still running on an old AVS API), and the Assistant SDK is far from being being able to replace Google Home.

To finally answer your question :) I've mentioned the Google SDK version 0.2.1 specifically - I haven't updated to 0.3 yet as they've introduced new libraries to communicate with Google Services. Those only work on certain Chip architectures (arm7 I think, you can find it in their repo's issues), which even breaks support for Raspberry Pi Zero (W), whereas not introducing too much other useful stuff... Try grab the 0.2.1 Google SDK Release, install it standalone according to the README of that version (!) and try to debug it that way. Tbh, I think this won't work as Google made this sample client we're using specifically for RPi :(

kronflux commented 7 years ago

To be entirely clear, I have had the google assistant working previously using their tutorial on this device. What I didn't have, unfortunately, was hotword detection, which is what drew me to this.

That being said, this clears things up a lot for me. Thanks! I have almost no experience with modifying python scripts, so I was mostly looking for a quick and easy solution to getting voice control to google assistant, rather than requiring a button press :)

xtools-at commented 7 years ago

You could try getting the latest standalone Google SDK, it supports voice control since 0.3 as well!