AIY Google Assistant Kit Start on Boot

I picked up the AIY Google Assistant kit from MicroCenter the other day. Man it is a cool project. All the instructions you need to get up and rolling are in the box. The MicroCenter deal came with the Raspberry Pi 3 included and only cost 35$, essentially you get the kit for free.

After the build I wanted a way to start the Google Voice Python script on startup. The AIY project site has great instructions that I will summarize here.

1. Create a new file in /home/pi called voice_assistant.service using the command: sudo nano /home/pi/voice_assistant.service
2. Enter the following text into the file
   
   Description=My awesome assistant app
   [Service]
   ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '/home/pi/AIY-voice-kit-python/env/bin/python3 -u src/assistant_library_demo.py'
   WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/AIY-voice-kit-python
   Restart=always
   User=pi
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   
3. Move the file to the correct folder using this command: sudo mv voice_assistant.service /lib/systemd/system
4. Enable your service: sudo systemctl enable voice_assistant.service
5. Start your service: sudo service voice_assistant start
6. Reboot the pi: reboot
7. After reboot check the status of the service: sudo service voice_assistant status
8. The status should be started and you should be able to say "Okay Google"