Mycroft https://mycroft.ai/ is an open source assistant similar to Amazon Echo and Google Home. They sell complete hardware such as the Mark I (which I have) and someday the Mark II, but you can build them from commodity hardware as well https://mycroft.ai/get-mycroft/ including ready made raspberry pi images.
The product is pretty good, not nearly as polished in terms of the responses as the mainstream offerings, but out of the box it can do the usual parlor tricks such as weather, celebrity ages, etc, and has a skill . Johan Palmqvist has written a skill to control the squeezebox server https://github.com/johanpalmqvist/skill-squeezebox which I'm happy to say works, for my use, pretty well. The skill does download all the music data to the local device so the software can parse through the data when you ask to play something. This didn't work for me, since my library is pretty large and tags aren't all in the best of shape, but Johan made an option to not download the library data so you can just use it to navigate playlists, favorites and such as well as manage the player states, which I have been testing and works well. If you're looking for a way to control the squeezebox via voice I would encourage you to check it out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sander's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110339 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
