Could not fetch metadata for snowboy@git+ssh://[email protected]/leon-ai/snowboy.git#d393fbff3ea319131071b90fb587884572facd5c Error: git dep preparation failed

[NXture]

Hey Louis, welcome back

I was trying to install hotword and I came across this error.
I think it is some access issue. Can you please help me with that.

Actual Behavior

Could not fetch metadata for snowboy@git+ssh://[email protected]/leon-ai/snowboy.git#d393fbff3ea319131071b90fb587884572facd5c Error: git dep preparation failed

[johannbarbie]

npm run setup:offline also fails with reference to snowboy

[johannbarbie]

when running npm install in hotword, snowboy is a transitive dependency, and bindings are fetched fromhttps://leon-ai-snowboy.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com. the endpoint is only returns 403 for me.

[NXture]

thanks for your interest @johannbarbie . May I know the node version you are using?

when running npm install in hotword, snowboy is a transitive dependency, and bindings are fetched fromhttps://leon-ai-snowboy.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com. the endpoint is only returns 403 for me.

[johannbarbie]

i'm running v16.13.2 on mac

[NXture]

were you able to run hotword using v16? i believe snowboy only supports older node like v10 n below.

[johannbarbie]

leon requires node v16, so I assumed all components do as well. I had to manually build the bindings in snowboy using this command:
CXXFLAGS="--std=c++17" node-pre-gyp/bin/node-pre-gyp clean configure build

i've tried to automate the step in this PR

[NXture]

yeah, i got it. it does connects to the server and starts waiting for the hotword. but it couldn't catch any phrase. was it same for you?

[johannbarbie]

after building the binding I was able to issue the hotword and give of a command:

1. "Leon" -> mic turns blue
2. "Give me a random number"
3. Leon returns random number and reads it out

[NXture]

it works @johannbarbie , earlier i was using WSL2 and it didn't have access to the microphone. I just switched to Ubuntu system and it catches the hotword now. Thanks for your support.