This section is grouped by Device to help you quickly find the information you need.
Have you recently updated your Location or your measurement preferences (ie. kilometers vs miles) in home.mycroft.ai, but these are not reflected on your Device?
All Devices pull down a local copy of configuration settings from home.mycroft.ai. You may need to instruct your Device to pull down your configuration again. To do this, Speak
hey Mycroft, configuration update
Mycroft will respond in one of two ways:
If your configuration was out of date, and has been pulled down again, Mycroft will respond Your device has been configured
.
If your configuration was the same on your Device as on home.mycroft.ai, Mycroft will respond Updated configuration
.
If you're comfortable SSHing into your device, SSH in and then run the following commands to see what configuration values are stored locally.
To see the city location value:
jq ".location.city" < /var/tmp/mycroft_web_cache.json
To see the latitude and longitude coordinates of your location:
jq ".location.coordinate" < /var/tmp/mycroft_web_cache.json
To see the timezone setting:
jq ".location.timezone" < /var/tmp/mycroft_web_cache.json
To see the listener setting:
jq ".listener" < /var/tmp/mycroft_web_cache.json
To see the Speech to Text (STT) settings:
jq ".stt" < /var/tmp/mycroft_web_cache.json
To see the Text to Speech (TTS) settings:
jq ".tts" < /var/tmp/mycroft_web_cache.json
We also have more information available on mycroft.conf
and mycroft_web_cache.json
files.
Mark 1 attempts to update its software around every hour or so. Yellow Eyes, part of the Mark 1 boot sequence, occurs when either the software for the Mark 1 or the Skills on the Device did not update properly. Generally the solution for Yellow Eyes is to "hard reboot" the Mark 1 - that is, remove the power cable, wait at least 30 seconds, then plug the Device back in.
It may take several "hard reboots" to clear the Yellow Eyes symptom.
If you have connected Mark 1 to a HDMI output, and nothing is showing on the HDMI screen, reboot the Mark 1. Mark 1 needs to reboot before it can output to a HDMI screen.
If your Mark 1 has previously been connected to the internet, and loses internet connectivity, it will speak
I have lost connection to the internet
If you ssh
into Mark 1, (instructions here), and have recently reset the Device to factory defaults, then you will need to re-enable ssh
.
Press the Mark 1's top button and turn it to SSH
, then press the button. Select ENABLE
then press the button again to enable ssh
.
ssh
operates on port 22. Here is an nmap
scan of a Mark 1 with ssh
enabled sitting on IP address 192.168.0.2
:
$ nmap -Pn 192.168.0.2​Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2018-12-12 00:01 AEDTNmap scan report for 192.168.0.2Host is up (0.0042s latency).Not shown: 999 filtered portsPORT STATE SERVICE22/tcp open ssh​Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 19.56 seconds
If you're developing a Skill, and run it for the first time, you may encounter an error similar to the below:
12:30:32.158 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:142 - INFO - First run of mycroft-skill-cat-facts12:30:32.164 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:156 - ERROR - Failed to load skill: mycroft-skill-cat-factsTraceback (most recent call last):File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mycroft_core-0.9.7-py2.7.egg/mycroft/skills/core.py", line 144, in load_skillskill.settings.store()File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mycroft_core-0.9.7-py2.7.egg/mycroft/skills/settings.py", line 323, in storewith open(self._settings_path, 'w') as f:IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/mycroft/skills/mycroft-skill-cat-facts/settings.json'
The error here is that the file system permission on the Skill's directory are incorrect. The directory should have owner and group permissions of mycroft:mycroft
as per the below.
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 mycroft mycroft 4096 Nov 24 14:34 .4 drwxrwxrwx 38 mycroft mycroft 4096 Nov 27 12:50 ..4 drwxr-xr-x 3 mycroft mycroft 4096 Nov 23 16:57 dialog4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 Nov 27 12:36 .git4 -rw-r--r-- 1 mycroft mycroft 20 Nov 23 16:57 .gitignore8 -rw-r--r-- 1 mycroft mycroft 6265 Nov 23 16:57 init.py8 -rw-r--r-- 1 mycroft mycroft 7509 Nov 24 14:34 init.pyc12 -rw-r--r-- 1 mycroft mycroft 11357 Nov 23 16:57 LICENSE4 -rw-r--r-- 1 mycroft mycroft 695 Nov 24 14:33 README.md4 -rw-r--r-- 1 mycroft mycroft 35 Nov 25 19:28 settings.json
If your permissions are different to those shown above, change them by running the following commands:
cd /opt/mycroft/skills/sudo chown mycroft:mycroft -R your-skill-name