Hello,
I was able to successfully install mycroft-core with no errors until using the cli. I am going to fork the mycroft-core project with instructions on the package requirements changes and what I did to install. I am using Debian 12, and have not tried with Ubuntu or anything else.
When I use the cli I am asked to pair with a Mycroft account, but the account.mycroft.ai is no longer available. The Skills attempt to download from the API but are unsuccessful because the API is no longer working.
I am curious. Is it possible to obtain the API, or perhaps are there instructions on how to bypass the PairingSkill and pair my account on startup?
Mercy,
Thank you. Any help appreciated.
Hi, welcome! As you may have seen on your way into the forums, Mycroft went out of business. The API was never especially friendly to self-host, although I hear some people have figured out how to do it. I’d recommend checking out OVOS: [HOWTO] Begin your Open Voice OS journey with the ovos-installer 💖 😍
Mycroft skills are all compatible, but almost all of them have been ported to OVOS with bug fixes and new features.
Please let us know if you need any help.
Take care!
Mike
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Ken Smith forked Mycroft before it went under and made a "Mini My"croft, aka minimy. If you want to start smaller, here is a fork I’ve been intermittently updating: GitHub - mike99mac/minimy-mike99mac: simple nlp based voice assistant framework
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Thank you to you both, Mike.
I am going to work on rebuilding Mycroft. I was able to include openai-whisper as the STT and it works great. I am not able to use wolfram API as it seems they have many API keys available and am unable to get mycroft to recoginize the key, so I am likely going to replace the fallback use of wolfram.
I am now working on completing the Docker container for selene-app. Near complete. When running the tests, selene is unable to find the wake-word file. Glad the code was kept up. The misfortune that happens sounded really shitty, and I hope one day those types of entities can be regulated.
Cheers
Seems you are about to duplicate a few years of work from the community
Have you checked out OVOS?
OVOS is a continuation of mycroft, we were contributors for the original code base for a long time even before OVOS was formed. It is not only a direct continuation of the original code, but also backwards compatible. It runs offline without selene, and we already have lots of plugins including whisper
OVOS is a non profit organization we formed to keep the torch alive, and we can use all the help we can get 
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