Mycroft

Full docs at: https://docs.mycroft.ai

Pair Mycroft instance with Cerberus Account Management Service: https://cerberus.mycroft.ai

Getting Started in Ubuntu - Development Environment

• Install virtualenv >= 13.1.2 and virtualenvwrapper (Restart session)
• Install the following native packages
  • libtool
  • autoconf
  • bison
  • swig
  • libglib2.0-dev
  • portaudio19-dev
  • python-dev
  • curl
  • mpg123
  • espeak
• run dev_setup.sh (feel free to read it, as well)
• Restart session (reboot computer, or logging out and back in might work).

Cerberus Device and Account Manager

Mycroft AI, Inc. - the company behind Mycroft maintains the Cerberus device and account management system. Developers can sign up at https://cerberus.mycroft.ai

By default the Mycroft software is configured to use Cerberus, upon any request such as "Hey Mycroft, what is the weather?", you will be informed that you need to pair and Mycroft will speak a 6-digit code, which you enter into the pairing page on the Cerberus site.

Once signed and a device is paired, the unit will use our API keys for services, such as the STT (Speech-to-Text) API. It also uses allows you to use our API keys for weather, Wolfram-Alpha, and various other skills.

Using Mycroft without Cerberus.

If you do not wish to use our service, you may insert your own API keys into the configuration files listed below in configuraion.

The place to insert the API key looks like the following:

[WeatherSkill] api_key = ""

Put the relevant key in between the quotes and Mycroft Core should begin to use the key immediately.

API Key services

• STT API, Google STT
• Weather Skill API, OpenWeatherMap
• Wolfram-Alpha Skill

These are the keys currently in use in Mycroft Core.

Configuration

Mycroft configuration consists of 3 possible config files.

• defaults.ini, which lives inside the mycroft codebase/distribution
• /etc/mycroft/mycroft.ini
• $HOME/.mycroft/mycroft.ini

When the configuration loader starts, it looks in those locations in that order, and loads ALL configuration. Keys that exist in multiple config files will be overridden by the last file to contain that config value. This results in a minimal amount of config being written for a specific device/user, without modifying the distribution files.

Starting the Virtualenv

To ensure that you are in the Mycroft virtualenv before trying to start the services, as everything is installed there, Run:

workon mycroft

Running the initial stack

• run PYTHONPATH=. python client/speech/main.py # the main speech detection loop, which prints events to stdout and broadcasts them to a message bus
• run PYTHONPATH=. python client/messagebus/service/main.py # the main message bus, implemented via web sockets
• run PYTHONPATH=. python client/skills/main.py # main skills executable, loads all skills under skills dir

Running stack via the script

• run ./start.sh service
• run ./start.sh skills
• run ./start.sh voice