Google Voice Kit: if the Check Cloud icon doesn't work...
Google Voice Kit is an awesome little cardboard DIY project that guides you through setting up a Google Home-like device that leverages the Google Speech API.
I encountered a small issue when setting up our Voice Kit, and am documenting it here just in case someone runs into the same issue:
If you are at the point in the setup where you are instructed to double click the "Check Cloud" icon on your Pi desktop, and the result is that you see a terminal window quickly open and close without any further result, the problem may that the script that is trying to execute needs to run in a virtual environment.
To set up a virtual environment for this script to run in, open up a terminal window on your Pi and run this command:
source env/bin/activate
Then you should be able to run the script right from that same terminal session:
~/AIY-voice-kit-python/checkpoints/check_cloud.py
Here's the output from my terminal:
(env) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ~/AIY-voice-kit-python/checkpoints/check_cl…
I encountered a small issue when setting up our Voice Kit, and am documenting it here just in case someone runs into the same issue:
If you are at the point in the setup where you are instructed to double click the "Check Cloud" icon on your Pi desktop, and the result is that you see a terminal window quickly open and close without any further result, the problem may that the script that is trying to execute needs to run in a virtual environment.
To set up a virtual environment for this script to run in, open up a terminal window on your Pi and run this command:
source env/bin/activate
Then you should be able to run the script right from that same terminal session:
~/AIY-voice-kit-python/checkpoints/check_cloud.py
Here's the output from my terminal:
(env) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ~/AIY-voice-kit-python/checkpoints/check_cl…