Basic Commands
Now that your Mycroft Mark II is set up, try asking it a few questions, or giving it some commands. The Mark II comes with the following Skills pre-installed.
Alarm
Manages a collection of alarms.
Set an alarm
Hey Mycroft, set an alarm for two hours Hey Mycroft, set an alarm for 3pm Hey Mycroft, wake me in two hours Hey Mycroft, wake me up at 10:23pm
Snooze the active alarm
Hey Mycroft, snooze <- - - - - Defaults to 9 minutes Hey Mycroft, snooze for 15 minutes Hey Mycroft, give me 2 more hours
Delete/stop/cancel/dismiss/remove
Hey Mycroft, stop the alarm Hey Mycroft, delete the Tuesday alarm for 9 Hey Mycroft, remove all alarms
Query alarms
Hey Mycroft, when is the next alarm? Hey Mycroft, what are the alarms for today?
Date & Time
Mycroft answers inquiries about Dates (specific dates, relative dates, holidays, leap year, weekends, etc.) and Time (future or current, local or other location). Mycroft's response to a Date inquiry attempts to supply the 'missing information' and selectively includes: day-of-week, the calendar date, and the quantity of days from now. When answering inquiries about Time, Mycroft may optionally take advantage of the display on the enclosure.
Query current time (in location)
Hey Mycroft, the time now please Hey Mycroft, what time is it in Paris?
Query future time (in location)
Hey Mycroft, what time will it be in 2 hours? Hey Mycroft, tell me the time 6 hours from now in Paris?
Query next leap year
Hey Mycroft, when is the next leap year?
Query a specific date
Hey Mycroft, when is July 1st?
Query a relative date
Hey Mycroft, what is today's date? Hey Mycroft, what is today? Hey Mycroft, what is 6 days from now? Hey Mycroft, what is next Friday?
Query weekend dates
Hey Mycroft, what was last weekend? Hey Mycroft, what were the days last weekend? Hey Mycroft, what are the dates this weekend? Hey Mycroft, what are the days for next weekend?
IP Address
Query the IP Address (aka the network address) of the Mycroft Device.
Query the IP address
Hey Mycroft, what is your IP address? Hey Mycroft, tell me your network address Hey Mycroft, what network are you connected to?
Jukebox
Play local music files.
Mycroft Jukebox can play any common audio file (mp3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, etc.) which is located on any drive mounted to your Mycroft device.
Files do not have to be placed in any particular directory; this skill will find them automatically. Nor do they need not be organized in any particular way. The Jukebox Skill searches for audio files to play based on their metadata, not directory structures or file names. Most music files in the wild already have metadata for things like artist, track name, album, etc. Jukebox will search each of these for matches based on your command.
Currently, we do not recommend using Jukebox with local STT turned on.
Mycroft Jukebox is an interface to the Music Player Daemon (MPD).
Examples
Hey Mycroft, play The Beatles
Hey Mycroft, play Here Comes the Sun
Hey Mycroft, pause music
Hey Mycroft, resume
News
Plays the latest news bulletin for the requested station. If no station is specified or if the request is unknown, a default station is selected based on Device location. Stations include: AP, BBC, CBC, DLF, Ekot, FOX, GPB, NPR, PBS, RDP, RNE, TSF, OE3, VRT, WDR, YLE.
Play the news
Hey Mycroft, what's the news? Hey Mycroft, play the BBC news Hey Mycroft, what are the headlines?
Restart the broadcast
Hey Mycroft, restart the news
Stop playing the news
Hey Mycroft, stop
Radio
Play internet radio stations from around the world.
Play a specific genre
Hey Mycroft, play jazz
Hey Mycroft, play classic rock radio
Change the station within the current genre
Hey Mycroft, change station
Hey Mycroft, next station
Hey Mycroft, previous station
Play a random genre
Hey Mycroft, play the radio
Hey Mycroft, listen to the radio
Stop the Radio
Hey Mycroft, pause
Hey Mycroft, stop the radio
Resume last station played
Hey Mycroft, resume
Stop
Tell Mycroft to STOP doing whatever it is doing. Should work with all Skills.
Hey Mycroft, stop Hey Mycroft, silence Hey Mycroft, shut up
Timer
Manages a collection of timers. Timers are requested with a duration expressed in hours, minutes, and/or seconds. A timer may optionally be given a name. The name is useful in queries, subsequent commands, and for display purposes. All timers beep.
If you wish to command a specific expiration time (e.g. 'at 3:05pm'), please use either an Alarm or a Reminder.
Timers have a duration of less than 24-hours. When a Timer is requested with a duration greater than 24-hours, an Alarm is set instead.
Mycroft refers to a timer by it's original duration and the optional User supplied name.
When there is more than one timer with the same duration, Mycroft may include an ordinal (e.g. the second timer for 5-minutes).
The User may refer to an individual timer by its name or by the ordinal of its position in the list of timers (e.g. the third timer).
Start a timer
Hey Mycroft, I need a timer named turkey for 15 minutes Hey Mycroft, start a 10-minute timer called time to go Hey Mycroft, set a timer to take out the trash <- - - Mycroft will ask for the DURATION Hey Mycroft, ping me in 2 hours <- - - - - - - - - No NAME is associated with this timer Hey Mycroft, Start a timer <- - - - - - - - Mycroft will ask for the DURATION but not a NAME Hey Mycroft, Begin timer
Query a timer
Hey Mycroft, how's my turkey timer? Hey Mycroft, how much time is left?
Cancel the beeping timer
Hey Mycroft, cancel the timer
Cancel a timer in the list of timers
Hey Mycroft, cancel the first timer Hey Mycroft, delete the fourth timer Hey Mycroft, remove the potatoes timer Hey Mycroft, kill the turkey timer
Cancel all timers
When no timers are beeping, this command removes all timers from the list. If any timers are beeping, this command stops all of the beeping timers.
Hey Mycroft, cancel all timers Hey Mycroft, delete all timers
Mute timer
Muting stops the beep but leaves the timer in the list so that expired timers can be displayed.
Hey Mycroft, mute the timer Hey Mycroft, silence the timer
Volume
Manages Mycroft's volume level.
Query volume level
Hey Mycroft, what is the volume? Hey Mycroft, how loud?
Set volume to a numeric level (0 to 10)
In a tribute to Spinal Tap, a level of '11' is accepted (equivalent to level 10).
Hey Mycroft, increase volume to 8 Hey Mycroft, set sound to NORMAL <- - - Keyword options: NORMAL=6, QUIET=3, LOUD=9
Set volume to a percentage (0 to 100%)
Hey Mycroft, set audio to 75 percent Hey Mycroft, decrease volume to 50 percent
Set to maximum volume
Hey Mycroft, crank it all the way up Hey Mycroft, set audio to max
Increase volume by one numeric level
Hey Mycroft, raise the sound Hey Mycroft, make it higher Hey Mycroft, louder
Decrease volume by one numeric level
Hey Mycroft, lower the sound Hey Mycroft, make it quieter Hey Mycroft, softer
Mute
Hey Mycroft, mute the volume Hey Mycroft, silence the audio
Unmute
Hey Mycroft, unmute the speaker Hey Mycroft, restore the sound
Weather
An interface to OpenWeatherMap.org that supports an extensive set of queries.
Hey Mycroft, what is the weather? Hey Mycroft, what is the forecast tomorrow? Hey Mycroft, what is the weather going to be like Tuesday? Hey Mycroft, what is the weather in Houston? Hey Mycroft, when will it rain next? Hey Mycroft, how windy is it? Hey Mycroft, what's the humidity? Hey Mycroft, is it going to snow? Hey Mycroft, what's the temperature?
General Query
Sent to all fallback Common Query search engines.
Hey Mycroft, what is Frankenstein? Hey Mycroft, who is Kathryn Johnson? Hey Mycroft, how high is Mount Everest? Hey Mycroft, how many inches in a meter?
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