cybear-jinni / jinni-assistant

Jinni Assistant 🧞 is here to help you "make your wishes come true", it will be your assistant which will accompany you and help you throughout the day at home. If you have ever wondered "is there open source project to make my own smart home?", Jinni Assistant is part of one called CyBear Jinni.

Hello and welcome to CyBear Jinni 🦾🐻🧞‍♂️

Our goal here is to raise the quality of life for everyone and make the world a better place to live in.

We are starting this by making Smart-Home 🏡 more affordable and accessible for the common person.

Our code is open source so that even you can have control of your Smart-Home, and by that we give the people the power to control their technological future🔮🌌.

jinni-assistant's Issues

Adding Speech-To-Text support

Test to integrating mozilla DeepSpeech Speech-To-Text engine.

The easy part is to make it work.
The hard part is to make it work while the snap runs as a daemon (see #1 )

Running alsa inside daemon snap

This is Snowboy blocker.

Snowboy need alsa to run.
When I change my snap to run as daemon alse stop working and I get the error

  ALSA lib control.c:1373:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
  ALSA lib control.c:1373:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:1
  No protocol specified
  xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
  ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
  No protocol specified
  xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
  ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
  Fail to open PortAudio stream, error message is Device unavailable.

So we need new way to run Snowboy that will work with root permissions, as alsa/ pulseaudio cannot run as root in ubuntu.