Why is assistant not working on Windows now?

[techwindow]

I get following error when trying to run Google Assistant on Windows.

C:\Users\Admin>python -m googlesamples.assistant
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\python.exe: No module n
amed googlesamples.assistant.main; 'googlesamples.assistant' is a package an
d cannot be directly executed

What is the cause? What is the solution? Thanks in advance.

[proppy]

Which instructions are you following? Which version of the SDK are you using?

[techwindow]

I am following the XDA guide and how do I check the version? pip install --upgrade google-assistant-sdk
says everything is up to date.

[techwindow]

One more thing now googlesamples-assistant-pushtotalk seems to work. That's all I have to do? I tried from this guide https://pypi.python.org/pypi/google-assistant-sdk/0.3.0. However, the hotward thing is still not working.

[techwindow]

Hey just checked the version and its 0.3.2

[IdyllBeast]

Not on windows, but I cannot get hotword to work either on armbian.

[Fleker]

Can you try with the updated version of the sdk?

google-assistant-sdk 0.4.0

[qreeves]

> pip show google-assistant-sdk
Name: google-assistant-sdk
Version: 0.4.4
Summary: Samples and Tools the Google Assistant SDK
Home-page: https://github.com/googlesamples/assistant-sdk-python
Author: Google Assistant SDK team
Author-email: proppy+assistant-sdk@google.com
License: Apache 2.0
Location: c:\tools\python36\lib\site-packages
Requires: google-auth-oauthlib
Required-by:

And:

> pip search google-assistant-library
google-assistant-library (0.1.1)              - Google Assistant Library Python wrapper
google-assistant-grpc (0.1.0)                 - Google Assistant API gRPC bindings
  INSTALLED: 0.1.0 (latest)
google-assistant-sdk (0.4.4)                  - Samples and Tools the Google Assistant SDK
  INSTALLED: 0.4.4 (latest)

The problem being:

> pip show google-assistant-library
[no output]

[proppy]

@qreeves @techwindow as documented here the google-assistant-library which the hotword sample depend upon only works on the following architecture:

• linux-armv7l
• linux-x86_64

[qreeves]

Alrighty, sorry I missed the bits where that was explained on my first pass through.

I'm a Windows-based FOSS dev, anything I can do to help?

[proppy]

@qreeves you should be able to use the Google Assistant Service on Windows:
https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/guides/service/python/

You can find the difference between the Google Assistant Service and the Google Assistant Library listed here:
https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/overview

[qreeves]

Thanks for the quick response.

I'm aware of the gRPC platforms, but it lacks the "hands-free" (hotword) detection that everyone seems to be after, so I thought maybe I could port the python google-assistant-library to Windows.

I'm asking because there might be some technical reason or obstacle that is preventing this that I don't know about, or perhaps it is better to focus on adding it to the gRPC supported methods?

[Fleker]

There are certain platform-specific parts in the library that will prevent it from being ported to Windows. Integrating with gRPC, perhaps incorporating a 3P hotword library, is the best way.

[tng99]

found this one from 2019, work great and very detail https://www.lifewire.com/google-assistant-on-windows-4628292
bonus: my path
d:\Program Files\Python37\Lib\site-packages\googlesamples\assistant\grpc\audio_helpers.py
d:\Program Files\Python37\Scripts\googlesamples-assistant-devicetool.exe
nb: if this failed
Error: Failed to register model: 409
Could not create the device model. A model with the same device_model_id (GA4W) already exists.

just rename GA4W to 88GA4W or something else.