- Intro Blog
- Unboxing
- Setup
- Gourmet Install
- Load up some Recipes!
- Enclosure Planning.
- 7inch Touchscreen Time
- AIY Build / Google Voice <<<---
- AIY API & Certs
- Succes with Google AIY!
Welcome to the next part of this project where I look at seeing how well Google AIY will integrate with our KCON:
I really have no idea how much can be pulled into Google AIY but I thought having as much hands free interaction would be ideal with a KitchenCONsole setup.
So let's take a look at incorporating Google AIY into this project.
So way, way back with the May 2017 edition of The MagPi (Issue 57) the magazine had packaged a "free" AIY kit with their magazine.
Of course I had to scour the local places and find a copy or two to add this neat item into my inventory.
As such when I submitted my idea for the KCON I knew I had on hand an AIY kit just waiting to find a new home.
Interestingly enough I received an email from MicroCenter mentioning they had Raspberry Pi Zero W for $3.14 and even the new Google AIY kit for $3.14.
Well of course I had to snap out some of this. The new kit had made some minor changes and it was $3.14!
The issue of course being that MicroCenter is 250 miles away and you can only get that pricing in store. So I ordered/reserved my Pi Zero and a kit or 5 of the AIY and then Mother Nature shut down the Interstate over the Rocky Mountains...
Luckily I have family in Denver and was able to have them take my reservation and pickup everything for me.
So what this means is that now we are running with the latest AIY kit!
Instead of a magazine you have a handy dandy Projects book.
We will see how helpful this is with assembly.
Next we have the neat little cardboard box that you can assemble to hold your Raspberry Pi and AIY kit.
We will set this aside since it doesn't really fit the Kitchen install plan.
Now for the good stuff.
You can see the cabling, speaker, voice hat, LED button and the microphone.
From some of what I read they made changes to the LED button allowing everything to be all in one instead of a bunch of different switches that had to be cobbled together.
Regardless, we are trying the newest kit I could get a hold of for this project.
The first things that need to be done is the removal of the screws on the right side in this picture.
Then we place the 2 plastic standoffs in there to help support the VoiceHat.
Next we put the VoiceHat on.
Then referring to the included book we can see how to connect the Speaker up.
You can see my phillips screwdriver just finished with securing the speaker cables.
The book made a point to let readers know that each connector could only be connected one way and each connector was different per cable as you can see here on the cable that goes to the microphone board.
Here we have the microphone and the speaker connected.
Okay as you can see with the book we are now connection our button.
Pretty simple so far!
Next step is to plug in power to our KCON and let's see what happens...
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Sadly a successful boot of the KCON did NOT happen.
I rechecked connections and everything looked good.
I removed the hat and retried and instantly the RPI booted up correctly through the LCD screen.
I reconnected the AIY kit again and same thing. No display to screen.
At this point I believe it is power related since I was trying to run power through one input cable so I am going to have to research this more.
A quick search showed others asking if the AIY kit can be used with the 7" touchscreen and people saying they believe so but I didn't find any actual people experienced in doing so.
So the next step will be more involved searching and checking of pins on the AIY Kit.
I look forward to sharing soon what I find!
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