Main CLI enhancements:
* Microphone meter
* Long log line left/right scrolling
* Eliminated flicker
* VT100 ESC key code support (used by some terms)
In addition, to achieve the meter it was necessary to implement a mechanism for local Inter Process Communication (IPC). This is achieved using the file-system. By default a folder structure is created under /tmp/mycroft/ipc, but it can be directed to somewhere else by setting the config value in mycroft.conf:
"ipc_path" : "/path/to/somewhere"
In the future, Mark 1 and Picroft will get RAM disks to avoid burning out the SD card. This is also a very fast communication mechanism. This is all hidden under util.get_ipc_directory()
Further, the named signal mechanism was changed to use the IPC folder. The signal can have a lifetime now (not just one shot).
* Added "--simple" mode, to get the old cli behavior
* Rewrote to not use tail (works better with multiple log files)
* Added Ctrl+PgUp/Dn support for scrolling back in logs
* Added filtering
* Refined look and log coloring
* Added :help screen
* Added support for terminal resizing
* Uses curses
* Displays a "chat history" with requests and responses
* Shows filtered logs from mycroft-skills.log, mycroft-voice.log
* Start of framework for special ":" commands (for log searching, etc)
* "Input:" doesn't get intermingled with the output (usually -- long pauses can still cause it to happen)
* "Output:" is now displayed
* Ctrl+C is handled gracefully
- Initialize tts ws and enclosure at the main process
Note:
- This is a minimal change to fix the problem.
- The ultimate goal is to have a totally isolated TTS process which requires its own main and ws initialization to be developed soon.
penrods
Arron Atchison
Jonathan D'Orleans