[OS] Mycroft-Image (Debian Jessie-based)

[nold]

I made a little Image using meveric's Debian Jessie and the open-source "Open Source Voice Assistant" Mycroft.
This basically turns your Odroid into an "Amazon Echo" aka "Alexa". For more informations, check out the Mycroft-Website and/or MycroftDocumentation.

Basically it's "ready-to-run", mycroft is started on bootup. But you will need to configure mycroft, so f.e. it knows your location & Date-Format. Also your USB-Soundcard/-Microphone might not work from scratch. See "Post-Install Configuration" for more.
Also setting the System-Time correctly is important, because it's essential for SSL-Handshakes - which will be needed by apt & mycroft.

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Download: https://nold.in/files/Mycroft-U3-20170528.img.gz
Size-Compressed: 3,5G
Size-Uncompressed: 7,5G

Hardware Requirements:

• SD/eMMC-Card >= 8GB
• USB-Soundcard and/or Microphone/Speaker (for voice input/output)

General:
Hostname: mycroft-u3
SSH-Login:

• Username: mycroft
• Password: mycroft

mycroft is started using the systemd-services: mycroft-skills, mycroft-voice, mycroft-service
It has been installed using the git-Repository. This makes it easier for developers, since it's pretty easy to create your own Mycroft-Skills. You can find the git-clone under /home/mycroft/git/mycroft-core. The Skills are located under ~/.mycroft/skills & /opt/mycroft/skills.

Post-Install Configuration:
General:

• Configure Timezone:

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   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

• If the system-time is correct: Set Hardware-Clock to System time:

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   $ sudo hwclock -w 

• Update System:

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  $ sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

Note: The correct time-settings are essential for mycroft & the system to work correctly.

Mycroft:
Update mycroft:

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$ cd /home/mycroft/git/mycroft-core
$ git pull
$ restart-mycroft.sh

• Connect USB-Microphone/-Soundcard & configure it: Mycroft - Audio issues
• Configure /home/mycroft/.mycroft/mycroft.conf using your favorite editor (nano,vim,...)
• Pair mycroft: https://docs.mycroft.ai/installing.and.running/pairing

If your having issues setting up your microphone, try this little script I've added:

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$ mycroft-audio-detect

Changes made to meveric's Debian-Image:

• Hostname: mycroft-u3
• User: mycroft / pass: mycroft
• root login via ssh only via ssh-key
• root password removed
• /etc/systemd/system/mycroft-{voice,skills,service}.service
• Recreates /home/mycroft/.mycroft on first-boot
• /tmp is now tmpfs

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Software added:

• git
• sudo
• Everything needed by mycroft (https://docs.mycroft.ai/installing.and. ... ne.install)
• build-essential
• alsa-utils (alsamixer for mic / speaker configuration)
• usbutils (lsusb & stuff)
• pulseaudio

Custom Scripts:
/home/mycroft/bin/

• restart-mycroft.sh - restarts all three mycroft-services
• mycroft-audio-detect - prints out all possible audio devices

Known issues:

• USB-Soundcard might not be detected when rebooting, only seems to work by power-cycling

[mad_ady]

Great news. I want to play with mycroft as well, but on C2. What cool tricks did you teach him/it?

[nold]

I made a raspberry pi camera, E-Mail/IMAP (WIP) & "robot" skill. You can find them on github https://github.com/nold360. Also I had a skill to play radio somewhere...
But now I finally can continue to work on new skills, because it took me two days to make this Image work >.<'' (It's the first istro-Image I made & published).

Edit 1:
The worst thing is making it start using systemd... I used the Unit's from Arch AUR, but they didn't work from scratch. So it's still kinda hacky, but working pretty well.

[meveric]

very cool
Having this on ODROIDs is really nice.
Thanks for sharing.

If you need help porting it to other ODROIDs let me know.
ODROID X and X2 is just a matter of reinstalling a different Kernel, while C1 and XU3/XU4 is a little more work but can be done easily as well.

[mad_ady]

Forgot to post here for those following this thread - here's a guide to installing Mycroft on other Odroids on top of Ubuntu 16.04: viewtopic.php?f=52&t=27661