carolinedunn/google-home-rpi-autoboot

How to Automatically Boot your Raspberry Pi 3 into Google Voice Assistant with the AIY Voice Kit

Google-Home-RPi-AutoBoot

How to Automatically Boot your Raspberry Pi 3 into Google Voice Assistant with the AIY Voice Kit

You will need the Google AIY Voice Kit V1for this project. Check out my corresponding video here - https://youtu.be/dFL4ePKWfic

Please follow all instructions - https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice-v1/ and stop AFTER you have verified your project works here - https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice-v1/#users-guide-3-using-your-device

Video Tutorial from MicroCenter here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2vlFWOHEKMi_1vXEC5a-VaIe3qb7F3dw

To Auto-Boot into Google Home:

Open a Terminal on the Raspberry Pi Desktop.

Create the service file. Type:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/assist.service

Copy and paste all text in the assist.service file included in this repository.

[Unit]
Description=Assist @ reboot

[Service]
Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
ExecStart=/home/pi/AIY-projects-python/src/examples/voice/main.py
Restart=always
User=pi
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=assist

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Control-X to exit, and Y to save. Press Enter to complete the save.

Next, copy your assistant demo to pi folder

cd ~/AIY-projects-python/src/examples/voice
cp assistant_library_demo.py main.py

Enable it (for next boot) by typing in the terminal:

sudo systemctl enable assist.service

Start it by typing:

sudo systemctl start assist.service

Reboot your Raspberry Pi

After you get it working, here are links to Easter Eggs / fun stuff to ask your Google Home

https://www.the-ambient.com/features/best-google-home-easter-eggs-166

https://www.pocket-lint.com/smart-home/news/google/143472-google-assistant-easter-eggs-your-complete-guide-to-hidden-assistant-commands

https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/feature/digital-home/funny-google-assistant-3659188/

google-home-rpi-autoboot's Issues

I don't understand the part of your instructions below

Next, copy your assistant demo to pi folder

cd ~/AIY-projects-python/src/examples/voice
cp assistant_library_demo.py main.py

This would just rename assistant_library_demo.py to main.py and it wouldn't copy it to /home/pi.
It took me 1/2 a day to get the voice AIY v1 running, but after three days I still can't get it to auto start so I can go headless so I thought maybe if I understood your instructions I could get this piece running.

how to stop the autoboot?

Hey I followed your instructions and they worked great! but if for some reason I need to reverse this function, how do I do that??? plz help.

How to do the Autoboot for the GRPC demo?

I thought I could use the same instructions for autorun for assistant GRPC program, but it does not work, plz help!

Not working anymore

When your steps are followed this is what happens.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo service assistant status
● assistant.service - Assist @ reboot
Loaded: loaded (/home/pi/assistant.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: signal) since Tue 2021-09-14 17:31:29 EDT; 994ms ago
Process: 2765 ExecStart=/home/pi/assistant.py (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
Main PID: 2765 (code=killed, signal=ABRT)

Sep 14 17:31:27 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Assist @ reboot.
Sep 14 17:31:29 raspberrypi assist[2765]: [FATAL:audio_input_stream.cc(47)] Input device could not be opened: default
Sep 14 17:31:29 raspberrypi systemd[1]: assistant.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Sep 14 17:31:29 raspberrypi systemd[1]: assistant.service: Failed with result 'signal'.