Voice Activated Google Assistant for Raspberry Pi

Posted by novaspirit | May 23, 2017 | Projects | 80 |

How to install voice activated google assistant for raspberry pi, also known as google home. this is a early adoption of integrating google home to our raspberry pi, more tutorials will follow soon. thanks for the view!!

Equipment List

USB Microphone ► http://amzn.to/2qCx4zY

Raspberry Pi 3 ► Amazon | Ebay

Websites

developer console

https://console.cloud.google.com/project

google assistant tutorial

https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/prototype/getting-started-pi-python/config-dev-project-and-account

command line:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-venv
python3 -m venv env
env/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools --upgrade
source env/bin/activate

Downloading libs for google assistant

python -m pip install --upgrade https://github.com/googlesamples/assistant-sdk-python/releases/download/0.3.0/google_assistant_library-0.0.2-py2.py3-none-linux_armv7l.whl

oauth tool

python -m pip install --upgrade google-auth-oauthlib[tool]

obtaining oauth key. replace idxxx with your client id file

google-oauthlib-tool --client-secrets /home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_client-idxxx.json --scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/assistant-sdk-prototype --save --headless

to run google assistant

google-assistant-demo

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80 Comments

Nicolas on May 23, 2017 at 11:53 am

Hi,
How can I use the GPIO pins using google assistant ?
Thanks
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- Charles on November 13, 2017 at 11:16 pm
  
  Hello Nicolas,
  
  Did you solve how to use the GPIO using google assistant ?
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o0Scope0o on May 23, 2017 at 12:27 pm

Great one thanks all setup and working, however I would like to use this in headless mode – do you know how I would make this autostart at boot?

Thanks again, great, and easy to follow!!! 😀
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Glenn on May 23, 2017 at 3:55 pm

How do I get it to automatically start when rebooting? I’m not too familiar with Linux, but right now for me to start it immediately after logging in with the pi account, I type ~/env/bin/google-assistant-demo and hit enter and it starts.

Thanks in advance!
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- Frak on May 29, 2017 at 11:34 am
  
  I wrote a bash script with the invocation instruction and made a launch daemon call it at startup. See here for the launch daemon:
  https://pastebin.com/7T19cw5t
  
  This is the actual start.sh script:
  #!/bin/sh
  /home/pi/git/GoogleHome/env/bin/google-assistant-demo
  
  you can test the launcher daemon by entering:
  sudo /etc/init.d/launch-at-startup start
  and
  sudo /etc/init.d/launch-at-startup stop
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  - Rahul on May 30, 2017 at 6:34 am
    
    I am new to this so can u please explain it how to setup this in step by step. Thanks in advance.
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    - Glenn Gilley on May 31, 2017 at 10:19 pm
      
      I got it working thanks to Fraks comment! So here’s what I had to do.
      
      sudo nano /etc/init.d/launch-at-startup
      then paste in all of the RAW Paste lines (I first tried the regular section from his link and it errored out with numerous line errors so I deleted the contents of the launch-at-startup and replaced them with the RAW Paste data) and hit ctrl+x then y to save the file.
      
      Next to make that script executable type sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/launch-at-startup
      
      Next cd over to /home/pi and type nano start.sh and then paste in these two lines, keeping in mind the 2nd line should be the actual command that will start your google-assistant-demo.
      
      #!/bin/sh
      /home/pi/env/bin/google-assistant-demo
      and save those two lines
      
      Again I ran the chmod +x /home/pi/start.sh to make the script executable.
      
      Now to test things up to this point you can try to check the status of it and it should be stopped by running “sudo /etc/init.d/launch-at-startup status” and it should return it’s status and no error messages or anything. You can also try to change status to start and see if it starts up and runs! At this point it actually ran for me by running “sudo /etc/init.d/launch-at-startup start”
      
      You can also test just the start.sh script by running “sudo ./home/pi/start.sh” if this doesn’t launch and work then you need to figure out what your path is to start the google assistant and replace that 2nd line in the start.sh file with the correct path and stuff.
      
      If you have everything working right up to here, the next step you’ll need to do in order to make it automatically start after boot is to run this line
      “sudo update-rc.d launch-at-startup defaults” and you should now have an automatically starting Google Assistant!
      
      Thanks again to Frak for helping out with this startup script! I’m pretty novice at Linux and this was a challenge to get setup but it’s working fine now! I wish I knew how we could get stuff like Pandora and other things like that working on here now.
      Reply
      - Frak on June 1, 2017 at 3:48 am
        
        Glad I could help. Thanks for writing out all of the steps in detail.
      - rahul on June 6, 2017 at 10:41 pm
        
        I followed everything but for some reason it gives me following error:
        
        sudo ./home/pi/start.sh
        sudo: ./home/pi/start.sh: command not found
        
        this is what i have in start.sh
        
        #!/bin/sh
        /home/pi/env/bin/google-assistant-demo
        
        and i do see google-assistant-demo in that location. i tried right clicking that demo file and executing in terminal and it works. but for some reason that start.sh is not working
      - rahul on June 6, 2017 at 10:47 pm
        
        I can even right click start.sh and open and click execute in Terminal and works
      - rahul on June 8, 2017 at 9:16 pm
        
        ok here are my results:
        
        when i run sudo /etc/init.d/launch-at-startup start google starts in the back ground and it works.
        
        then i ran sudo update-rc.d launch-at-startup defaults and restarted the raspberry pi. it loaded the desktop and i asked questions starting hey google and i got no answers. so i am assumed its not running in back ground . I waited 2 minutes but same result.
        
        can you please help me figure out what is going wrong. i am new to raspberry pi
      - Nora on September 6, 2018 at 1:18 pm
        
        hello, I am getting every day a little further!
        
        Since I am totally new to this ans since I had suddenly sound problems, I did format my sd card and reinstall the hole thing from scratch! I think it is maybe the best way to learn!
        
        Still having problems with the auto start post following your post
        
        “… You can also test just the start.sh script by running “sudo ./home/pi/start.sh” if this doesn’t launch and work then you need to figure out what your path is to start the google assistant and replace that 2nd line in the start.sh file with the correct path and stuff.”
        
        Until there I managed so far every thing but when typing
        
        pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo /home/pi/start.sh
        I get:
        usage: google-assistant-demo [-h] [–credentials OAUTH2_CREDENTIALS_FILE]
        google-assistant-demo: error: argument –credentials: No such file or directory: “/root/.config/google-oauthlib-tool/credentials.json”
        
        Google assistant is working, so what can I do?
        
        Thank you for you help,
        
        Best Nora
boutsism on May 23, 2017 at 6:34 pm

is there any way for this to work on raspberry pi 2? it doesnt have armv7.1, so it seems to work only in raspberry pi 3. any ideas?
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- omar on September 15, 2017 at 11:45 am
  
  yup i dit it today will work hopefully but for my pi 2 it worked
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Vitaly Stockman on May 24, 2017 at 9:38 pm

Awesome, thank you!
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Vitaly Stockman on May 25, 2017 at 10:52 am

Currently, it works great, but only for as long as PuttY session is open (with google-assistant-demo process running). Here is an instruction how to run it even without haveing open session – using “screen” component. Very easy to set up and use!
http://raspi.tv/2012/using-screen-with-raspberry-pi-to-avoid-leaving-ssh-sessions-open
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- Glenn on May 25, 2017 at 10:57 am
  
  Is there a way to have it automatically start this up? I just want to be able to reboot the Pi and have the Google-Assistant-Demo process kick off and start automatically and not quit! I’m having a nightmare of a time trying to figure out how to use init.d with this to make it start!! Can you point me in the direction to get this Pi setup so it’ll automatically run the assistant?
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Tom on May 25, 2017 at 6:10 pm

Hi Don,
I am following your guide and have a problem with the following command:
env/bin/python -m pip install –upgrade pip setuptools –upgrade

I get an exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py”, line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py”, line 269, in run
InstallRequirement.from_line(name, None))
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/req.py”, line 173, in from_line
return cls(req, comes_from, url=url, prereleases=prereleases)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/req.py”, line 71, in __init__
req = pkg_resources.Requirement.parse(req)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python-wheels/setuptools-5.5.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py”, line 2793, in parse
reqs = list(parse_requirements(s))
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python-wheels/setuptools-5.5.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py”, line 2708, in parse_requirements
raise ValueError(“Missing distribution spec”, line)
ValueError: (‘Missing distribution spec’, ‘–upgrade’)

Total Noob here, any help would be appreciated.
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- Glenn on May 25, 2017 at 6:12 pm
  
  Try to use double dashes in front of one or both of the upgrade switches. –upgrade. I think that’s where my problem was.
  Reply
  - Glenn on May 25, 2017 at 6:15 pm
    
    See if you can find the commands on the actual Google assistant sdk walkthrough, it has the correct dashes that I had to use.
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    - Albin Winkelmann on May 28, 2017 at 2:30 pm
      
      Try write the command by yourself. I had some trouble because of the font used here on the site. The “-” was not interpreted correctly.
      Also in the next command (the long one), notice that its an “l” like in L in the end and NOT number one! (if you type it by yourself it’s easy to be mistaken).
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Naresh on May 28, 2017 at 1:45 am

Hi Don,
When I run this
google-oauthlib-tool –client-secrets /home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_myid.json –scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/assistant-sdk-prototype –save –headless

I get the below error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/env/bin/google-oauthlib-tool”, line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 722, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/google_auth_oauthlib/tool/__main__.py”, line 100, in main
scopes=scope
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/google_auth_oauthlib/flow.py”, line 165, in from_client_secrets_file
client_config = json.load(json_file)
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py”, line 268, in load
parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py”, line 318, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/json/decoder.py”, line 343, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/json/decoder.py”, line 361, in raw_decode
raise ValueError(errmsg(“Expecting value”, s, err.value)) from None
ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 2 (char 1).

Kindly help me,
Thanks in advance.
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- amit on May 30, 2017 at 1:55 pm
  
  same issue. just after enter the authentication code
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Omri on May 30, 2017 at 4:29 pm

I’m trying to obtain my oauth key but I’m getting an error says: Missing option “–client-secrets”.
Any help?
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- Patrick Hennessey on June 2, 2017 at 9:01 pm
  
  you probally forgot to change the big dash to 2 little ones in front of client.
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rez Ident on May 31, 2017 at 10:05 pm

I worked on this for 3 hours and still can’t get it working. If you want people to use your instructions please fix your lines of code. I don’t know lenux so this was very hard to trubsht.
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- Glenn on May 31, 2017 at 10:27 pm
  
  You probably hit the same problems I did with the –upgrade and stuff like that, the instructions showed single dashes in a lot of places I ended up needing the double dashes. If that’s where your problems are, check this site here and specifically look at the #4 link on the bottom: https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/prototype/getting-started-pi-python/
  
  The commands there are exact I believe. I’m happy to help, I’ve got it working a few different times after wiping and restarting.
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william michael on June 2, 2017 at 1:07 pm

i just get errors when i try to download libs for google assistant. I copied and pasted what you had… any advice???
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Jason on June 8, 2017 at 9:24 pm

Great tutorial! I got it running for a few days now but can’t get it to do anything except for answering questions.
I’ve linked my Spotify account using the Home app on my phone but it still replies that i have not set up my music service. Are there further things to explore like setting it up to control lights, gpio etc? Thanks!
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Omri on June 11, 2017 at 10:49 am

Hello! Is there any way of controlling the assistant via Google Home app?
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Frak on June 13, 2017 at 5:14 pm

When I say “OK Google, What’s in the news?” it says, says something like “OK, today’s news…” then silence. This is 100% reproducible. It works when I ask it for other things like the weather or for a joke etc, but for some reason, the news doesn’t work. Can someone try it and confirm ?
Thanks
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- Bala on August 21, 2017 at 7:12 pm
  
  I’ve the same issue. Any fix for this?
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- PAUL on September 17, 2017 at 6:08 pm
  
  HI Frak
  I am just beginner Everything gone normal untill i got this-
  
  with open(client_secrets_file, ‘r’) as json_file:
  FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_client-idxxx.json’
  
  Can you help to go through, Thanks in advance.
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  - Frak on September 18, 2017 at 12:03 am
    
    PAUL, client_secret_client-idxxx.json is not the actual file name. It is an example file name. Each user gets a unique file name with different values instead of the xxx. Just follow the instructions on this page:
    https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/develop/python/config-dev-project-and-account
    
    to download your .json file and use that file name instead of client_secret_client-idxxx.json
    
    Good luck.
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    - Paul on September 18, 2017 at 9:48 am
      
      Frank
      Thanks for quick response
      You are right I did the same way as in instructions, downloaded the .Json credential file for my project it is there in my downloads folder. Still gives error any clue?
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  - Esam on August 30, 2018 at 5:15 am
    
    Try what this says in the AUDIO section. I tried it and it worked for me.
    http://www.androidauthority.com/build-google-assistant-raspberry-pi-770296/
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Izzi on June 22, 2017 at 3:47 pm

After I type “google-assistant-demo”, I get error message that says:
OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: No such file or directory
[7689:7702:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[7689:7704:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}

Please help me!
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- Jose on June 22, 2017 at 8:14 pm
  
  Hey, I’m having the same problem.
  Did you go through the steps that said you had to create settings for the audio input/output devices?
  We’re almost there!
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  - darshana on August 5, 2017 at 4:42 pm
    
    have you fixed that error??
    if yes tell me how??
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- Isam on August 30, 2018 at 5:18 am
  
  Try what this says in the Audio section. It solved the issue with me
  http://www.androidauthority.com/build-google-assistant-raspberry-pi-770296/
  Reply
Madhur on June 24, 2017 at 12:52 pm

Hello Don, by when can we expect voice activated Google Assistant on Raspberry Pi Zero?
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Vovan_EZ on June 28, 2017 at 5:26 pm

Hi there
after command (env) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ google-assistant-demo
I get:
OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: No such file or directory
[1905:1917:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[1905:1920:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}

Please tell me what I should do?
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- Fixer on June 30, 2017 at 5:59 pm
  
  Try what this says in the Audio section. I think this was the same issue I had and it worked for me.
  http://www.androidauthority.com/build-google-assistant-raspberry-pi-770296/
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Fixer on June 30, 2017 at 6:08 pm

I have got the google assistant to work but everytime I try to play any sort of music (google play, pandora, Spotify, YouTube), its says “Something went wrong, please try again”. Am I doing something wrong or is the assistant on the pi not able to play music?
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- squalldna on July 23, 2017 at 9:07 am
  
  i have the same issue. any fix?
  
  ON_CONVERSATION_TURN_STARTED
  [3140:3162:ERROR:speech_processing_task.cc(646)] Detected communication error: Downstream closed prematurely.
  [3140:3162:ERROR:assistant_output_handler.cc(589)] Failed with a general speech recognition error
  ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
  {‘is_fatal’: False}
  ON_RESPONDING_STARTED:
  {‘is_error_response’: True}
  ON_RESPONDING_FINISHED
  ON_CONVERSATION_TURN_FINISHED:
  {‘with_follow_on_turn’: False}
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darshana koli on August 5, 2017 at 4:36 pm

hi

i have got these errors what i suppose to do

(env) pi@shrikant:~ $ google-assistant-demo
OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: No such file or directory
[2113:2127:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[2113:2129:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
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diego on August 10, 2017 at 7:44 am

Hey folks, does anybody here tried to cast youtube or netflix from google assistant to chromecast devices? is that worked?
My one can not do that. Cast works properly with spotify, but YT and NF dont
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prince on September 9, 2017 at 1:43 pm

hey brother i’m getting error when i run google assistant

OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: No such file or directory
[1905:1917:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[1905:1920:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
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Mario on September 9, 2017 at 11:40 pm

I followed your instruction and I’m still getting the error below after running:

google-assistant-demo

OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: No such file or directory
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
[4499:4512:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[4499:4514:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
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- amicog on January 2, 2018 at 3:52 pm
  
  # try with this method:
  
  sudo nano /etc/asound.conf
  
  # in the file asound.conf copy this content then reboot the raspberry
  
  pcm.!default {
  type asym
  capture.pcm “mic”
  playback.pcm “speaker”
  }
  pcm.mic {
  type plug
  slave {
  pcm “hw:1,0”
  }
  }
  pcm.speaker {
  type plug
  slave {
  pcm “hw:0,0”
  }
  }
  Reply
Randoman 247 on September 10, 2017 at 12:36 am

i dosent give me a link but gives me this
google-oauthlib-tool –client-secrets /home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_client-client_secret_269704735810-18qicaq9v3saf7je1u2u38jfkv0np440.apps.googleusercontent.com.json –scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/assistant-sdk-prototype –save –headless
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/env/bin/google-oauthlib-tool”, line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 722, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google_auth_oauthlib/tool/__main__.py”, line 100, in main
scopes=scope
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google_auth_oauthlib/flow.py”, line 164, in from_client_secrets_file
with open(client_secrets_file, ‘r’) as json_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_client-client_secret_269704735810-18qicaq9v3saf7je1u2u38jfkv0np440.apps.googleusercontent.com.json’

i tried it 28 times never worked
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- Randoman 247 on September 10, 2017 at 1:06 am
  
  worked but still gives me an error
  ALSA lib pcm.c:8382:(snd_pcm_set_params) Sample format not available for CAPTURE: Invalid argument
  [2194:2210:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(755)] Input error
  ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
  {‘is_muted’: False}
  ON_START_FINISHED
  ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
  {‘is_fatal’: True}
  [2194:2211:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(755)] Input error
  ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
  {‘is_fatal’: True}
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  - Ritesh on September 11, 2017 at 2:11 pm
    
    how did you made it work ?
    Reply
  - Antonio on November 15, 2017 at 8:17 am
    
    Hello.
    
    Have you overcome this one? Would you mind sharing how?
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- ritesh on September 11, 2017 at 2:12 pm
  
  how did you make it work
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ritesh on September 11, 2017 at 2:06 pm

google-oauthlib-tool –client-secrets /home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_client-client_secret_/home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_83505037359-srdmeiftftpc2l6gb5io8eucj8pb7fiv.apps.googleusercontent.com.json –scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/assistant-sdk-prototype –save –headlessTraceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/env/bin/google-oauthlib-tool”, line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 722, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py”, line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google_auth_oauthlib/tool/__main__.py”, line 100, in main
scopes=scope
File “/home/pi/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google_auth_oauthlib/flow.py”, line 164, in from_client_secrets_file
with open(client_secrets_file, ‘r’) as json_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_client-client_secret_/home/pi/Downloads/client_secret_83505037359-srdmeiftftpc2l6gb5io8eucj8pb7fiv.apps.googleusercontent.com.json

I got everything working till i reached here and after entering the key it did not open a webpage and have me this error. Any help
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sanenak on September 23, 2017 at 6:57 pm

hello
When I finally got the url and pasted it to the browser it returned a 404 error. Any ideas?
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J. Wolking on October 9, 2017 at 5:04 pm

My key is stored as ” client_secret_xxxxxxxxxxxxx ”
The tutorial is a little misleading when it says to replace “idxxxxx”
This will result in one too many “clients” in name of file. File won’t be found.
Simple thing that can cause delays for us beginners. Jack W.
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Byron Smith on October 13, 2017 at 1:52 am

Hi There. Do you thing you can make this run on a python environment on windows or make it into a windows app?
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Brandon on October 18, 2017 at 11:28 pm

Is there anyway of getting alarms to work? Timers work for me but not alarms. Thanks
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omkar on December 19, 2017 at 12:22 am

(env) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ google-assistant-demo
OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: No such file or directory
[1439:1451:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[1439:1457:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
why do i get this all the time
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- amicog on January 2, 2018 at 3:49 pm
  
  # try with this method:
  
  sudo nano /etc/asound.conf
  
  # in the file asound.conf copy this content then reboot the raspberry
  
  pcm.!default {
  type asym
  capture.pcm “mic”
  playback.pcm “speaker”
  }
  pcm.mic {
  type plug
  slave {
  pcm “hw:1,0”
  }
  }
  pcm.speaker {
  type plug
  slave {
  pcm “hw:0,0”
  }
  }
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  - Jo Jo on January 13, 2018 at 1:05 am
    
    i tried as you said but still i got this error , do you know how to fix this ? how do you triggering( starting this google Assis.) can you please help me .. I also attached error i got
    
    (env) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ google-assistant-demo
    ALSA lib conf.c:1852:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:12:1:Unexpected char
    ALSA lib conf.c:3615:(config_file_open) /etc/asound.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
    ALSA lib conf.c:3537:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
    ALSA lib conf.c:3986:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
    OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: Invalid argument
    ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
    {‘is_muted’: False}
    ON_START_FINISHED
    [1378:1391:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
    ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
    {‘is_fatal’: True}
    [1378:1393:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
    ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
    {‘is_fatal’: True}
    [1378:1391:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
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amicog on January 2, 2018 at 3:45 pm

Hello and thank you for the tutorial! Is there a way to update the system? I would like to check the presence of the Italian language
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yOGESH on January 25, 2018 at 4:07 am

i got input error at last
plz help me
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Jesper on January 27, 2018 at 4:15 pm

Great Work! – Worked like a charm!

I want to use it to open my browser remotely, is this possible?
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Boden on February 9, 2018 at 9:02 pm

Can you use the Google Assistant app with this?
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op on February 23, 2018 at 7:37 pm

HI, thank you for the comprehensive instructions but the final bit, the google-assistant-demo code, doesn’t activate the service my device, gives me a command not found error, anybody have a solution to this? Thanks for your time and consideration.
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Wallgarden on February 24, 2018 at 1:24 pm

Frak wrote in june’17:
When I say “OK Google, What’s in the news?” it says, says something like “OK, today’s news…” then silence.

I have the same. Can’t go to Google Assistant “My Day” on my Android because the app is not available in he Nethelands yet. So I can’t add the news sources.
Who has a solution for this that work in the Netherlands?
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carolina on March 17, 2018 at 12:59 pm

i have a problem . in the last instruction
say meUsage: google-oauthlib-tool [OPTIONS]

Error: Got unexpected extra argument (–headless)

google-oauthlib-tool –client-secrets /home/pi/desktop/client_secret_656275333289-123ukvm1pjp6eubbrfdc7h4c75gi3a9s.apps.googleusercontent.com.json–scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/assistant-sdk-prototype –save –headless

what can i do
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- DB on June 3, 2018 at 8:43 pm
  
  I’m having the same issue, please help!
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- Janne on January 12, 2019 at 7:28 am
  
  You need the entire address to the client file, the disk and folder it’s in. F.ex C:\Downloads\client-secrets /home/pi/desktop/client_secret_656275333289-123ukvm1pjp6eubbrfdc7h4c75gi3a9s.apps.googleusercontent.com.json also if your address contains space or quotation marks, python might not like it. So if the client file is in a folder called Google Assistant, rename it to GoogleAssistant.
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Nishant Adhikari on March 26, 2018 at 11:13 pm

I am getting below error on configuring asound.conf. Please help

google-assistant-demo
ALSA lib conf.c:1852:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:12:1:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:3615:(config_file_open) /etc/asound.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:3537:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3986:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: Invalid argument
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
[1016:1029:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[1016:1031:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
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Arc on May 23, 2018 at 12:29 am

When i run google-assistants-demo i get this error—

[i am using a usb mic and a powered speaker connected through the 3.5mm jack of my pi, also tried it with tv;s audio(via hdmi)]

ALSA lib conf.c:4886:(parse_args) Parameter DEV must be an integer
ALSA lib conf.c:4991:(snd_config_expand) Parse arguments error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:,
OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: Invalid argument
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
[2614:2626:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[2614:2629:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
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Rob on June 3, 2018 at 12:16 am

Problem. Following the lines, I typed them in just as seen. I get the comment back (trying to install libs, “No module named install” what am I doing wrong?
Thanks for the help,
Rob
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aLex on June 22, 2018 at 9:02 pm

I can’t seem to get it to work, first of all i had to rename the .json file (no problem) but i get to the last step “google-assistant-demo” 9 lines of code 2 of them say error, and one says “no such file…” what can i do, i need help
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Arian on July 4, 2018 at 9:00 am

Buenos días… retomo el tema…
Alguno soluciono este error?

(env) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ google-assistant-demo
OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: No such file or directory
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
[1656:1669:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[1656:1671:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
Violación de segmento
(env) pi@raspberrypi:~ $
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Nora on September 5, 2018 at 5:01 am

Thank you for this great blog,

I am just having a problem which has been explained, but somehow I seem to not make it work!

I explain myself: first this is my first project with Raspberry!

I am able to run google home assistant by following all the steps described in this blog .But if I reboot I have to write the command: /home/pi/en/bin/google-assistant-demo. That done, the google home works.

Also, when I tried to make it auto run following Frak and Glenn Gilley responses I am not able to make it work: when I tried to to check the status of it and it should be stopped by running: “sudo /etc/init.d/launch-at-startup status I get: ” /ect/init.d/launch-at-startup: 1: /ect/init.d/launch-at-startup: pi:raspnerrypi: -: file not found
Stopped

I did look in the files and I do find the file /ect/init.d/launch-at-startup

what should I do?

Thank you for you help
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shubham on July 8, 2019 at 9:33 am

Hi Dude,
Great tutorials!,
Thanks You!

but when i run this i getting such error!

google-assistant-demo
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1824:(_snd_pcm_direct_get_slave_ipc_offset) Invalid value for card
OpenAlsaHandle PcmOpen: No such file or directory
[2108:2122:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_MUTED_CHANGED:
{‘is_muted’: False}
ON_START_FINISHED
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
[2108:2124:ERROR:audio_input_processor.cc(756)] Input error
ON_ASSISTANT_ERROR:
{‘is_fatal’: True}
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Bart on September 9, 2019 at 11:12 am

Just as an FYI, this (for now) no longer works with Rapsbian “buster”.
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