How to configure location/region on OVOS

vanja1 · June 22, 2024, 6:52am

hi,
running raspovos headless image on rpi3+

Where do I configure my current location in ovos?
Judging by his response of “what’s the weather?” he has no clue where he is. the temperature is off by 30 degrees celsius
how to ask him where he thinks he is at? or check in the config…

edit: i imagined he pinpoints the location by IP address, but in that case its not working very well…

JarbasAl · June 22, 2024, 5:25pm

you are correct that by default location comes from IP address and isn’t very accurate

you can change the location in your mycroft.conf

see here what that looks like

github.com

OpenVoiceOS/ovos-config/blob/dev/ovos_config/mycroft.conf#L75


      
          
          // Mechanism used to play OGG audio files
          // by default ovos-utils will try to detect best player
          // Override: SYSTEM
          //"play_ogg_cmdline": "ogg123 -q %1",
          
          // Location where the system resides
          // NOTE: Although this is set here, an Enclosure can override the value.
          //       For example a mycroft-core running in a car could use the GPS.
          // Override: REMOTE
          "location": {
            "city": {
              "code": "Lawrence",
              "name": "Lawrence",
              "state": {
                "code": "KS",
                "name": "Kansas",
                "country": {
                  "code": "US",
                  "name": "United States"
                }

if ~/.config/mycroft/mycroft.conf does not exist, create it, that’s where all your config changes should go