HiveMind Fallback Skill

When in doubt, ask a smarter OVOS install

NOTE: this repository eventually will be converted from a FallbackSkill into a pipeline plugin

Configuration

Under skill settings (~/.config/mycroft/skills/skill-ovos-fallback-hivemind.openvoiceos/settings.json) you can tweak some parameters for HiveMind Skill.

{
  "name": "HiveMind",
  "confirmation": true,
  "slave_mode": false,
  "allow_selfsigned": false
}

Option	Value	Description
name	HiveMind	Name to give to the HiveMind AI assistant in the confirmation dialog
confirmation	true	Spoken confirmation will be triggered when a request is sent HiveMind
allow_selfsigned	false	Allow self signed SSL certificates ofr HiveMind connection
slave_mode	false	In slave mode HiveMind master receives all bus messages for passive monitoring and will be able to inject arbitrary messages into the OVOS bus

HiveMind Setup

You need to register the skill in the HiveMind server

$ hivemind-core add-client
Credentials added to database!

Node ID: 2
Friendly Name: HiveMind-Node-2
Access Key: 5a9e580a2773a262cbb23fe9759881ff
Password: 9b247ca66c7cd2b6388ad49ca504279d
Encryption Key: 4185240103de0770
WARNING: Encryption Key is deprecated, only use if your client does not support password

And then set the identity file in the satellite device (where the skill will run)

$ hivemind-client set-identity --key 5a9e580a2773a262cbb23fe9759881ff --password 9b247ca66c7cd2b6388ad49ca504279d --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5678 --siteid test
identity saved: /home/miro/.config/hivemind/_identity.json

check the created identity file if you like

$ cat ~/.config/hivemind/_identity.json
{
    "password": "9b247ca66c7cd2b6388ad49ca504279d",
    "access_key": "5a9e580a2773a262cbb23fe9759881ff",
    "site_id": "test",
    "default_port": 5678,
    "default_master": "ws://0.0.0.0"
}

test that a connection is possible using the identity file

$ hivemind-client test-identity
(...)
2024-05-20 21:22:28.003 - OVOS - hivemind_bus_client.client:__init__:112 - INFO - Session ID: 34d75c93-4e65-4ea9-b5f4-87169dcfda01
(...)
== Identity successfully connected to HiveMind!

If this step fails, your skill will also fail to connect to HiveMind

Slave Mode

If running in slave mode skills can emit serialized HiveMessages via the regular bus

This can be used to inject bus messages from one device messagebus to the other

from slave -> master: (might be rejected by hivemind-core)

• emit "hive.send.upstream" with message.data, {"msg_type": "bus", "payload": message.serialize()}

from master -> slave:

• emit "hive.send.downstream" with message.data, {"msg_type": "bus", "payload": message.serialize()}

see the hivemind protocol for more details on valid payloads

NOTE: this is what enables nested hives, a device can be both a master (by running hivemind-core) and a slave (by running this repo)