Installing New Skills
There are a few ways to install skills in ovos. The official way is to use osm
OVOS skills manager
Install skills from any appstore!
The mycroft-skills-manager alternative that is not vendor locked, this means you must use it responsibly!
Do not install random skills, different appstores have different policies!
Keep in mind any skill you install can modify mycroft-core at runtime, and very likely has root access if you are running on a raspberry pi
Supported stores
- OVOS - this one is really a proof of concept for now, stay tuned!
- Mycroft Marketplace - the official mycroft skills store, all skills are reviewed by humans!
- Pling - the official plasma bigscreen skills store, skills are accepted by default and only removed if flagged as malicious
- Andlo's skill list - not a real appstore, this is a web scrapped automatically generated list of 900+ skills from all over github, there is no review at all, it will catch malicious skills
OpenVoiceOS Skill Manager
pip install ovos-skills-manager
Enable a skill store
osm enable --appstore [ovos|mycroft|pling|andlo|all]
Search for a skill and install it
osm install --search
See more osm commands
osm --help
osm install --help
Manual Install
Finding Skills
Most skills are found throughout github. The official skills can be found at the OpenVoiceOS github page. Search the repositories for "skills". There are a few other places they can be found. Neon AI has several skills, and a search through github will for sure find more.
Installing a found skill
pip install
The preferred method is with pip. If a skill has a setup.py file, it can be installed this way.
The syntax is pip install git+<github/repository.git>.
ex. pip install git+https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/skill-ovos-date-time.git should install the ovos-date-time skill
After installing skills this way, ovos skills service needs to be restarted
buildroot / raspbian
systemctl --user restart mycroft-skills
manjaro / other system installed services
systemctl restart mycroft-skills
git install
Skills can also be directly cloned to the skill directory, usually located at ~/.local/share/mycroft/skills/
enter the skill directory
cd ~/.local/share/mycroft/skills
and clone the found skill here with git
git clone <github/repository.git>
ex. git clone https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/skill-ovos-date-time.git will install the ovos-date-time skill.
A restart of the ovos-skills service is not required when installing this way.