Running Mycroft for Docker

General Discussion
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Hi,

I’m trying to install Mycroft in (or with, I don’t know what’s the correct language here) docker on Raspberry Pi OS.
I’m following these instructions: Docker - Mycroft AI.
But suddenly they stop being a step-by-step manual and they assume knowledge I don’t have.

That begins at “Running Mycroft for Docker”. I know some basic terminal commando’s and understand Linux beginner-level. I can follow instructions and logically fix minor errors or missing steps. But I really don’t understand the first thing of setting a PULSE_SERVER env variable and the page it refers to is completely over my head. Same with Sharing Pulseaudio’s cookie.

The next commando’s won’t copy to the terminal, and I copy-paste the first line, I get an argument-missing error.

Is there a more step-by-step guide? It downloaded and installed a bunch of stuff, I think I’m almost there, but with the info on that page I can’t figure it out…

Thanks for any pointers.

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I recommend you use this docker image instead, hopefully the readme is enough to get you started, if not just ask for help again

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Thank you very much JarbasAI.
What with all the steps I already did? How can I delete all what I installed? I know how to remove/purge normal installed programs, but not how I do it with these Docker-stuff. Or is a lot of it similar to what you propose, so that I can just leave it?

(I use the AIY Google Voice HAT v1, the speaker and microphone already work in Raspberry OS)

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You will have to keep Docker install but all the steps related to images pull and containers creation will have to be undo.

$ docker rm CONTAINERID
$ docker rmi $(docker images -q)
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Ansible needs Raspberry Pi OS 64bits, I have 32bits installed.
Is it a bad idea to install the above image without Smartgic/Ansible?

Thanks for helping me remove the previous installation from Docker, goldyfruit!

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I wrote the Ansible role on a RPi 64-bit but it should work on a RPi 32-bit.

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This is what i call ambition. smartgic=goldyfruit. And no, Ansible is just to prep the pi4 to start from a even/favorable level. There’s the 64bit version. Imho, i would start fresh.

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I know, it wouldn’t be that much work more.

It’s not that I look up against the work, but that I’m not sure what exactly I installed or configured up until now.

AND I’m impatient to try Mycroft :slight_smile:

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Hi Goldyfruit,
I’m stuck at “sudo run.sh -v dev”, I get “sudo: run.sh: opdracht niet gevonden” something like: command not found. The file is there and is executable. What do I do wrong?

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Did you install docker-compose?

Docker is of course required and docker-compose is a nice to have to simplify the whole process.

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Yes, I did!

I’ll double check…

EDIT: and appareantly not. Sorry. The install-process got stuck on

  │ Newer kernel available                                                  │ 
  │                                                                         │ 
  │ The currently running kernel version is 5.10.63-v7l+ which is not the   │ 
  │ expected kernel version 5.10.63-v8+.                                    │ 
  │                                                                         │ 
  │ Restarting the system to load the new kernel will not be handled        │ 
  │ automatically, so you should consider rebooting."

With “stuck” I mean: I restarted my computer but then forgot finishing the installation…

Or not, because now I get: “Requirement already satisfied: docker-compose in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (1.21.0)”

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About using RPI OS 64bit: There are troubles with the Google Voice HAT and Bullseye.
And I really want to use that speaker and microphone… So I’ll go back to 32 bit…

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There are debian buster (and sid(=unstable)) packages for 64 if i read this correctly.

it takes ages in debian to get from testing to latest stable (ie bullseye)

you could test if it is reachable from bullseye/testing

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OK, thanks. I’ll check it out.
I decided to use a PiCroft-image instead of using the Docker and I have another image with 64 bit RPI OS.

I thought Bullseye was the 64bit-version, I now see that’s incorrect.

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There is no official Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Bullseye image but using the Buster image and upgrade it to Bullseye is pretty simple.


pi@rpi4b01:~ $ uname -a
Linux rpi4b01 5.10.63-v8+ #1459 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 6 16:42:49 BST 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux
pi@rpi4b01:~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release:	11
Codename:	bullseye
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Yes yes, that, I know, I used this image: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/raspios_arm64-2021-11-08/2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-arm64.zip

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