* Try to improve stability
- Remove sync_active
- Update the way variables are sent to the gui
* Do not show full path for pages
The cli now shows the basename of the current page to make it easier to
determine if the correct page is displayed.
* Make elements in loaded list named tuples
This makes the intent of the code a bit cleaner.
Normally Mycroft will use the default PortAudio input device as the
microphone input for the user. However in some cases there is reason
to specify a different input.
The "device_index" under the "listener" section in mycroft.conf has
always allowed a user to select the microphone explicitly. But on
some systems the indices can change from reboot to reboot. So this
adds the "device_name" setting. If it exists (and the "device_index"
has not been specified explicitly), a regex match will be run against
the PortAudio device names.
When "device_name" is used, the voice.log will contain a listing of
the devices as they are tested. This can be used to debug if a
name isn't matching as expected.
EXAMPLES:
/etc/mycroft/mycroft.conf
```
{
"listener": {
"device_name": "aawsrc"
}
}
```
Would find a match against "aawsrc" or "aawsrcplug". To force a specific
match, you can use a regex such as "aawsrc$".
/etc/mycroft/mycroft.conf
```
{
"listener": {
"device_index": 2
}
}
```
The PortAudio device index specified will be used.
Names and indexes for PortAudio are difficult to guess. The simplest way to
view them is either enter a value for "device_name" and look at the names
which appear in the log when starting Mycroft, or to run a simple program
such as:
```python
import pyaudio
pa = pyaudio.PyAudio()
for i in range(pa.get_device_count()):
dev = pa.get_device_info_by_index(i)
print((i, dev['name'], dev['maxInputChannels']))
```
==== Fixed Issues ====
CVE-2017-18342
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18342
high severity
Vulnerable versions: < 4.2b1
Patched version: 4.2b1
In PyYAML before 4.1, the yaml.load() API could execute arbitrary code.
In other words, yaml.safe_load is not used.
==== Tech Notes ====
NONE - explain new algorithms in detail, tool changes, etc.
==== Documentation Notes ====
NONE - description of a new feature or notes on behavior changes
==== Localization Notes ====
NONE - point to new strings, language specific functions, etc.
==== Environment Notes ====
NONE - new package requirements, new files being written to disk, etc.
==== Protocol Notes ====
NONE - message types added or changed, new signals, APIs, etc.
* Fix mimic2 negative numbers
Make the regex extracting numbers also match negative numbers when preparsing phrases sent to the mimic2 service
* Update pronounce_number to use "minus" for negatives
After discussion in the chat it was suggested to use "minus" for negatives as default.
When scientific notation is used the term "negative " is still used.
Improved the dev_setup.sh in several ways:
* Add 'wizard' that walks new users through setup
- Option to put the mycroft-core/bin folder in the path
- Option to change to 'master' instead of 'dev' branch. This is
usually desirable for users who only run Mycroft, not developers.
- Option to auto-update when running Mycroft
- Add soft link <mycroft-core>/skills to the /opt/mycroft/skills
directory
Improve the start-mycroft.sh script
* Unify some duplicated code under init-once() function
* Add support for "auto-update", which attempts a git pull at startup
* Add require-process() function which doesn't restart already
running services
* Add require-process for messagebus and skills services when running
the CLI
* Tweak the --help message
Several additions to the GUI protocol support
These changes allow switching between pages successfully with the current
mycroft-gui widget:
* Optimized commands to handle the active skill list
* MycroftSkill.gui.show_pages(list, idx) allows multiple-pages to be displayed
at a time starting with the given index visible.
* Merge SkillGUI.show_page with show_pages
This limits code duplication and makes things a bit more maintainable.
* Do not reload on changed .qmlc files
* Make EnclosureGeneric derive from Enclosure
* Update show function to match mycroft-gui-app
- adds internal representation of all loaded skills
- uses new commands to switch between pages and namespaces
* Add Extra debug output in enclosure
- Log if starting websocket fails
- Log the sending of page info in more detail
* Update GUI Debug client in CLI
- The CLI GUI now handles the new messages for switching pages
- Handle different data types better by using format instead of string concatenation
* Disable syncing code.
The sync code at startup outdated and needs to be reworked. Disabling it for now
to allow better interaction.
* Minor cleanups
- do not inherit from object
- use format instead of string concatenations
- remove duplicated self.loaded
- correct private member access
* Refactor GUIConnection.show()
Move the actions into separate methods for better overview of the logic
* Flipped "valid_file" to become "ignored_file"
The ability to "barge-in" has been lacking from Mycroft Core. The Mark 1
microphone was unable to support this due to physical limitations, but the
Mark II and other implementations with more advanced mic tech which can
hear over themselves are able to continuously listen.
To enable this while retaining backwards compatibility with simpler mic.py
systems, there are now two mycroft.conf values:
{
"listener": {
"mute_during_output" : true,
"duck_while_listening" : 0.3
}
}
The above values are defaults, and implementers will likely override them
using the /etc/mycroft/mycroft.conf file when appropriate.
The duck_while_listening setting is currently handled in Mycroft's
skill-volume. The mute_during_output is handled within mycroft-core itself.
Add a -sm "Skip mimic" option to dev_setup.sh which
will always prevent the download and complile of
the original Mimic. By default, we still want to
do this all the time, but there are situations where
it is convenient to skip this time-consuming step.
* bugfix/issue-1913 fixed bug with new flag
- `--no-error` can be used to disable exit-on-error behaviour
- improved print out in function show_help() to take a little less time and take up a little less space by using only one `echo` command, should work the exact same otherwise.
- Add overridable stop() method to HotwordEngine Class
- Add stop implementation to precise shutting down the runner
- Call wakeword_recognizer.stop() before reloading the listener configuration
Several small changes based on the code review feedback:
* Drop '_' from classes like Enclosure_Mark1
* Adopt Python 3 style for class definitions and don't explicitly list '(object)'
* Slightly better documentation
* Moved MycroftSkill.show_html() to SkillGUI, resulting in code like self.gui.show_page('Weather.qml')
* Renamed SkillGUI.__dict to SkillGUI.__session_data. This better reflects the
how values are accessed in the QML.
Adds support for negotiating best answer for a questions
Currently three levels of confidence are defined
EXACT: If the query could be identified exactly and a response is returned.
Example: The cockail skill could find a cocktail in the query that exists in
it's database.
CATEGORY: A category of questions the skill handles could be identified.
Example: The wiki-data skill can identify that the question is regarding
A date of birth and finds an answer.
GENERAL: A general question and answer service could parse the question.
Example: The wolfram alpha skill got a match for "How tall is Abraham
Lincoln".
Åke
Steve Penrod
Kathy Reid
Matthew D. Scholefield
devs-mycroft
Steve Penrod
Matheus Lima
Thomas Castleman
Ale
Michael Nguyen
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