road to alpha release

[JarbasAl]

ToDO to get to the first 0.1.0 release

Open bugs to fix

Below a (short) list of known or otherwise discovered bugs that we would like to fix before we can tag a 0.1.0 version release of the OpenVoiceOS buildroot image release.

• Volume not always restored at boot / set to zero. Fixed in latest images.
• TTS not always hearable / outputting. (Looks like this is fixed)
• Mycroft reports ready twice by voice Fixed by: Removed accidental included old enclosure skill
• ...

Open ToDO's / Additions

Small things still todo or to include before release.

• Add voice feedback to the whole new wifi/network setup. UPDATE: In principle done, however the selections will be converted to dynamic lists.
• Update TTS pre-loaded cache to reflect the new updated skills.
• ...

Basic functionality

Other then the automated function test within the python code / packages it would be best to test the image on a device for basic functionality. Below a list of minimal functionality check for testing the release in real life.

Date and Time

• Hey Mycroft, what time is it?
  (expected response: Listening state, current time spoken and shown on screen. Returning to homescreen after idle timeout)
• Hey Mycroft, what is the date?
  (expected response: Listening state, current date spoken and shown on screen. Returning to homescreen after idle timeout)
• ....

Hardware tested

Below a list of hardware that has been tested and confirmed working afetr all above bug are fixed and we are ready for release.

• Mycroft Dev-Kit: RPI4, Sj-201 dev HAT board, Internal speakers, Waveshare 5" touchscreen, USB3 disk.
• ...

[j1nx]

TTS not always hearable / outputting.

exception calling callback for <Future at 0x7fa08fe6b0 state=finished raised RuntimeError>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 330, in _invoke_callbacks
    callback(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyee/_executor.py", line 56, in _callback
    self.emit('error', exc)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyee/_base.py", line 116, in emit
    self._emit_handle_potential_error(event, args[0] if args else None)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyee/_base.py", line 86, in _emit_handle_potential_error
    raise error
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mycroft/audio/speech.py", line 62, in handle_speak
    mute_and_speak(utterance, ident, listen)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mycroft/audio/speech.py", line 88, in mute_and_speak
    tts.init(bus)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ovos_plugin_manager/templates/tts.py", line 521, in init
    TTS.playback.start()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py", line 923, in start
    raise RuntimeError("threads can only be started once")
RuntimeError: threads can only be started once

[j1nx]

In the latest rolling dev release, it looks like the volume behaves itself when rebooting. However at fresh reboot, the volume is set to 50% but directly sliding the top menu down shows 0% at the slider.