Snips Skills Manager
Project description
The Snips Skills Manager is a tool for easily setting up and managing a Snips assistant.
A single configuration file, the Snipsfile, is required to create a Snips assistant. In it, you specify:
The URL of your assistant, as created in the Snips Console
The skills you want to install
Bindings between intents and skills
If required, additional parameters for you skill, such as an API key or the address of a lamp
Various configuration parameters, such as language and logging preferences.
Check out Awesome Snips, a curated list of Snips skills, assistants and other resources to get you started. In particular, make sure to read the Getting Started guide.
Installation
The Snips Skills Manager is on PyPI, so you can just install it with pip:
$ pip install snipsskillsNote: you may need to install pip, python-dev and pyaudio and pygame on your system beforehand. On Raspberry, this can be done via apt-get:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2 libusb-1.0 python-pyaudio libsdl1.2-dev cython libudev-devUsage
Start your project by creating a Snipsfile, which is where all the configuration is set. This is a simple text file, adhering to the YAML format. Here is a basic configuration:
assistant: SNIPS_ASSISTANT_URL
locale: en_US
logging: True
default_location: Paris,fr
skills:
- package_name: snipshue
class_name: SnipsHue
pip: snipshue=0.1.2
params:
hostname: PHILIPS_HUE_IP
username: PHILIPS_HUE_USERNAME
light_ids: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
intents:
- intent: DeactivateObject
action: "turn_off"
- intent: ActivateLightColor
action: "turn_on"For further explanations and examples, check out our Snipsfile Wiki.
Next, setup the system by running the install command:
$ snipsskills installNote: make sure that the snipsskills is found in your $PATH. If the above does not work, add the following to your ~/.bashrc or equivalent:
$ export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/binYou may need to restart your device. We are now ready to start the service, using the run command:
$ snipsskills runTroubleshooting
On OSX, you might need to install SDL:
$ brew install sdlThe Snips Skills Manager is based on Python 3. To install it on a Raspberry, run:
$ sudo apt-get install python3Also, pip3 is used for dependency management. On Raspberry, the following might be needed:
$ sudo apt-get remove python3-pip; sudo apt-get install python3-pip$ sudo apt-get remove python-setuptools
$ wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ sudo python ./get-pip.py
$ sudo pip install -U pip setuptoolsCopyright
This skill is provided by Snips as Open Source software. See LICENSE.txt for more information.
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