Skip to content

Open Voice OS command line

The command line allows you to send a message (but not only) directly to the message bus by using the ovos-cli-client command from the ovo_cli container.

Skill interactions

The command line doesn't support any action related to skills other than :skills as this setup is running inside containers. Please read the skill section to manage skills.

ovos-cli-client

ovos-cli-client is deprecated

Please read https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-cli-client/issues/14 for more information.

Interact directly with the ncurses OVOS client interface.

docker exec --interactive --tty ovos_cli ovos-cli-client

podman exec --interactive --tty ovos_cli ovos-cli-client

ovos-config

To display or manage the current configuration, the ovos-config command could be used.

read-write access to the configuration

The ovos_cli container is the only one having read-write access to the mycroft.conf configuration file.

docker exec --interactive --tty ovos_cli ovos-config show

podman exec --interactive --tty ovos_cli ovos-config show

vim as default editor

vim and nano editors are available within the ovos-cli image, vim has been set as default.

ovos-speak

An easy way to make Open Voice OS speaks is to run the ovos-speak command.

docker exec --interactive --tty ovos_cli ovos-speak "hello world"

podman exec --interactive --tty ovos_cli ovos-speak "hello world"