Backend Services
OVOS supports connecting devices to a backend, allowing you to manage multiple OVOS devices from a single location
Developers do not need to worry about backend details in their applications and skills
You can interact with the backends in your applications with ovos-backend-client
Identity Information
A unique uuid and pairing information generated by registering with Home is stored in:
~/.config/mycroft/identity/identity2.json <-- DO NOT SHARE THIS WITH OTHERS!
This file uniquely identifies your device and should be kept safe
Backend Options
- Personal backend - self hosted
- Selene - https://api.mycroft.ai (Deprecated - Selene is dead since February 2024)
- Offline - support for setting your own api keys and query services directly
| API | Offline | Personal | Selene |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admin | yes [1] | yes | no |
| Device | yes | yes | yes |
| Metrics | yes | yes | yes |
| Dataset | yes | yes | yes |
| OAuth | yes | yes | yes |
| Wolfram | yes [2] | yes | yes |
| Geolocate | yes | yes | yes |
| STT | yes [2] | yes | yes |
| Weather | yes [2] | yes | yes |
| yes [2] | yes | yes |
[1] will update user level mycroft.conf
[2] needs additional configuration (eg. credentials)
Offline Backend
OVOS by default runs without a backend, in this case you will need to configure api keys manually
by default the configuration uses the offline backend
{
"server": {
"backend_type": "offline"
}
}
Personal Backend
Personal backend is a reverse engineered alternative to selene that predates it
It provides the same functionality for devices and packs some extra options
It is not intended to serve different users or thousands of devices, there are no user accounts!
This is currently the only way to run a vanilla mycroft-core device offline
edit your configuration to use your own personal backend instance
{
"server": {
"backend_type": "personal",
"url": "http://0.0.0.0:6712",
"version": "v1",
"update": true,
"metrics": true,
"sync_skill_settings": true
}
}
Selene
The official mycroft home backend is called selene, users need to create an account and pair devices with the mycroft servers.
With Mycroft's demise selene finally went down on February 2024
Support for selene was fully removed during ovos-core version 0.0.8
Selene is AGPL licensed: