Hi,

We are exploring the possibility of using Mycroft for a skill that falls back to connecting a user to an operator. The operator will be on a mobile app.

Question: I've only looked through the code briefly. It looks like you are using text to speech currently to communicate the messages, or are you sending the actual audio recording? Do you think it is likely we could collaborate to extend this skill to enable 2 way communication to and from a mobile app?

Thanks.

I should be encrypting the messages just because. The docs make it seem easy to do this. Now I just need to get around to implementing it and overcoming any bugs with the library.

The message intent right now only works if you say send a message. Then it asked for all the information... (the information is the device and message)
The intent should be able to ask for entities it needs, and does not ask for ones it already has. Instead, padatuous screws this up, and the device it has is not connected.

The intent examples need to be modified to support this.

Todo:

• Ask for all the info
• Send a message with all the info
• Ask for the message (already has the device)
• Ask for the device (already has the message)

More people will need 3rd party services to work with this skill. With this, developers would need to add more intents entities etc.. to the skill, which is not maintainable.

An idea is to have base class that all 3rd party services inherit which will allow the skill to grow, without making more complex.

Hello,

As explained on #6, this skill devours CPU cycles. I did a (quite boring) video where I show how one CPU rises from 8% to almost 100% for the process python3 -m mycroft.skills jus by downloading the skill and being recognized.
https://cloud.docampo.net/index.php/s/fxXMQXQoiwFbpYB

What I saw so far:

• The video shows a i7 7700 CPU, and the fan starts to make some noise
• I did it also on a i7 2600 CPU and well, that CPU instead of 100%, went to 80%, but the CPU fan starts to make an unbearable noise
• On a RPi, one CPU also goes to 100%, no fans means no noise, but I notices some "slowness" of the device.
• I think mycroft.skills process is mono-thread, if that's true, carrying its CPU at 100% will concur on global bad performance

To be honest, I had to remove the skill because the fan noises, they are quite annoying.

I am reading through your code, and noticed in your shippingandhandling.py file, there is a section of code I do not understand.

`>>>>>>> HEAD

lots of code

=======`

I have never seen this before and was wondering if you could explain it's use for me.

Thank you

The sender should be collected and sent along to Mycroft via the messagebus. The sender id would need to be stored in a database which would correspond with a friendlier name (like kitchen, or Chris).

A hurdle to go through would be that the sender id (I think) automatically is generated every time the client connects. A solution would be to when connecting to a new network, send the device id that Mycroft Home gives it to the other devices, who then can store that value, and use it in the future when checking if a device has already been connected

I think it should be great to let the user to specify to what device(s) the sentence should be announced.

Hey Mycroft, announce on kitchen "Let me know when dinner's ready."

and on the kitchen's mycroft, should be listened something like:

You have a new message from living room: "Let me know when dinner's ready."

So, the device should have a friendly name for this skill, it should be specified on the skill settings or if it is in blank, grabbing the name of the mycroft device as default. (So, for example, I have named my mark I as "mark I", but I could specify a friendly name "kitchen" under the communications settings as it will be placed on the kitchen when the mark II arrives, and the mark II should use for example "living room").

As default a global announce can be of use, but I would rather prefer to say something like:

Hey Mycroft, announce to everyone "The dinner's ready!"

Hi there,
Just installed the skill under Arch linux. The skill fails to load.

14:20:11.341 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:169 - ERROR - Failed to load skill: communications-skill
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/malevolent/development/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/core.py", line 131, in load_skill
    imp.PY_SOURCE))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/imp.py", line 234, in load_module
    return load_source(name, filename, file)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/imp.py", line 171, in load_source
    module = _load(spec)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 696, in _load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/opt/mycroft/skills/communications-skill/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    import py2p
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'py2p'

As the error suggest, I've installed (globally) py2p though pip

sudo pip install  py2p
Collecting py2p
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2b/2a/d85c006a08069fb987bf33d2aa0596553ddc5f809ede3980e0089a58ef75/py2p-0.7.878-py2.py3-none-any.whl (51kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 1.8MB/s 
Collecting async-promises (from py2p)
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Collecting custom-inherit (from py2p)
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Installing collected packages: typing, async-promises, custom-inherit, base58, u-msgpack-python, pyee, py2p
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But the error persists. Any idea?

Need to format readme correctly first unfinished draft:

Should note that it should only be used on a closed, secure LAN network.

# <img src='https://raw.githack.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/master/svgs/solid/comments.svg' card_color='#40DBB0' width='50' height='50' style='vertical-align:bottom'/> Communications
An intercom, messaging, and (video) calling skill for Mycroft!

## About


## Examples

## Credits

## Category
**Daily**
Entertainment
Information
IoT
Media
Productivity

## Tags

When the skill is going to get shutdown, it can not start back up again because the open ports are already locked. This makes you shut the device down. This should close the ports before the shutdown.