Hello mycrofters,
I wrote in another topic it would be nice to have mycroft running at boot/reboot time. As such, I wrote a script /etc/init.d/mycroftd:
cd /etc/init.d
cat mycroftd
#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: raspi-config
# Required-Start: $local_fs $syslog $remote_fs dbus bluetooth
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: S 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Start/stop/restart Mycroft AI
# Description:
### END INIT INFO
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
function startMycroft {
# runuser -s /bin/bash pi -c "home/pi/mycroft-core/bin/mycroft-start all" # start all mycroft processes as pi
home/pi/mycroft-core/bin/mycroft-start all # start all mycroft processes as pi
rc=$?
if [ "$rc" != 0 ]; then # error
echo "ERROR: /home/pi/mycroft-core/bin/mycroft-start all returned $rc"
exit 1
fi
}
function stopMycroft {
# runuser -s /bin/bash pi -c "/home/pi/mycroft-core/bin/mycroft-stop all" # stop all mycroft processes
/home/pi/mycroft-core/bin/mycroft-stop all # stop all mycroft processes
rc=$?
if [ "$rc" != 0 ]; then # error
echo "ERROR: /home/pi/mycroft-core/bin/mycroft-stop all returned $rc"
exit 2
fi
}
# main() - perform start, stop, restart or info actions
case "$1" in
start)
startMycroft
;;
stop)
stopMycroft
;;
restart) # stop then start mycroft processes
stopMycroft
startMycroft
;;
info)
echo "mycroft processes running:"
ps -ef | grep mycroft | grep -v grep
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart|info|status" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
I then made a symlink to run level 3:
cd etc/rc3.d
ln -s ../init.d/mycroftd S01mycroftd
ls -l S01mycroftd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 4 11:54 /etc/rc3.d/S01mycroftd -> ../init.d/mycroftd
Now when I boot/reboot my Pi 4, mycroft is running:
service mycroftd status
● mycroftd.service - LSB: Start/stop/restart Mycroft AI
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mycroftd; generated)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2020-01-04 12:10:38 EST; 1min 2s ago
...
service mycroftd info
mycroft processes running:
root 553 1 11 12:10 ? 00:00:09 python3 -m mycroft.messagebus.service
root 556 1 18 12:10 ? 00:00:14 python3 -m mycroft.skills
root 559 1 7 12:10 ? 00:00:05 python3 -m mycroft.audio
root 563 1 10 12:10 ? 00:00:08 python3 -m mycroft.client.speech
root 566 1 4 12:10 ? 00:00:03 python3 -m mycroft.client.enclosure
...
Hope this helps. Any feedback is welcome (for example, not sure about the runuser lines commented out. Should mycroft be running as pi and not root?). Maybe it could be integrated into picroft.
-Mike Mac
P.S. I probably should be using the newfangled systemd, but it’s good to see a hybrid of good old-fashioned SysVinit and systemd.