Hey everyone! I’m super new to Mycroft (and home assistants in general), but I am currently attempting to house a Picroft build inside a Larry the Singing Lobster. The problem is, I am unsure how to code a motor to activate upon the wake word. For example, rather than the chime that the Picroft unit is listening, I would like to activate a motor in response. Does anyone have any tips on how I could accomplish this / if it’s even possible?
Thanks in advance.
Check out the Mycroft Message Bus. In your skill you register a handler to the recognizer_loop:wakeword event/message. The handler then performs some action, e.g. setting some GPIO Pin of your Raspberry Pi which (by some additional hardware) triggers a servo motor.
The recognizer_loop:record_begin/recognizer_loop:record_endmessages are a good candidate too for your application. Then you can trigger servo on when user starts speaking and servo off when utterance ended…
That sounds exactly like what I’m looking for! Thank you so much!
and please oh please send us video of that lobster!!!
I’ll update this thread with a video as soon as I get it working!