What is port 8181 for?!

[Fellhahn]

You can connect to port 8181 using a websocket client to remotely send commands to the Mycroft cli. See this thread:

[SOLVED] How to send message bus commands via the websocket listening port?

Hello again, My main objective in adopting MyCroft across the home is to provide a customised, on-prem voice control method for use with my home automation platform (HomeSeer in my case). One key requirement of this is to be able to perform text-to-speech audio announcements that are triggered from home automation events. Examples include announcing when the letterbox has been opened, or that the washing machine has finished it’s cycle. Using the mycroft-cli-client I can of course issue comma…