From 4c84f66e15a361d9f3d650def1ba97fa80506456 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jarbasal <jarbasai@mailfence.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:09:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] skill settings sync flag

---
 mycroft/configuration/mycroft.conf |  3 ++-
 mycroft/skills/settings.py         | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mycroft/configuration/mycroft.conf b/mycroft/configuration/mycroft.conf
index dc7666468c..b18eb9b09a 100644
--- a/mycroft/configuration/mycroft.conf
+++ b/mycroft/configuration/mycroft.conf
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@
     "url": "https://api.mycroft.ai",
     "version": "v1",
     "update": true,
-    "metrics": false
+    "metrics": false,
+    "sync_skill_settings": true
   },
 
   // The mycroft-core messagebus websocket
diff --git a/mycroft/skills/settings.py b/mycroft/skills/settings.py
index 6effde5ff0..a211de2f58 100644
--- a/mycroft/skills/settings.py
+++ b/mycroft/skills/settings.py
@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ class SettingsMetaUploader:
         self.settings_meta = {}
         self.api = None
         self.upload_timer = None
+        self.sync_enabled = self.config["server"].get("sync_skill_settings",
+                                                      False)
+        if not self.sync_enabled:
+            LOG.info("Skill settings sync is disabled, settingsmeta will "
+                     "not be uploaded")
+
         self._stopped = None
 
         # Property placeholders
@@ -216,6 +222,8 @@ class SettingsMetaUploader:
         The settingsmeta file does not change often, if at all.  Only perform
         the upload if a change in the file is detected.
         """
+        if not self.sync_enabled:
+            return
         synced = False
         if is_paired():
             self.api = DeviceApi()
@@ -315,6 +323,11 @@ class SkillSettingsDownloader:
         self.remote_settings = None
         self.api = DeviceApi()
         self.download_timer = None
+        self.sync_enabled = Configuration.get()["server"]\
+            .get("sync_skill_settings", False)
+        if not self.sync_enabled:
+            LOG.info("Skill settings sync is disabled, backend settings will "
+                     "not be downloaded")
 
     def stop_downloading(self):
         """Stop synchronizing backend and core."""
@@ -328,6 +341,8 @@ class SkillSettingsDownloader:
 
         When used as a messagebus handler a message is passed but not used.
         """
+        if not self.sync_enabled:
+            return
         if is_paired():
             remote_settings = self._get_remote_settings()
             if remote_settings: