yup, same url, plays the news from last broadcast, hourly updates
simple as âhey mycroft, play the newsâ
havenât looked into building my own skills yet, just got the thing running, kinda stopped tinkering a bit because I really wanted the squezeserver skill working, but throws me errors
same with this one, couldnât get it to work in a few minutes, so delayed the tinkeringâŚ
and the weather is the wrong forecast (different city with same name) which is a known issue, and âbeing worked onâ
Things can take time unfortunately. Thereâs a lot of competing priorities, but we are getting to the Weather Skill in the next few weeks.
The News feeds are slightly more of a challenge as we have to search around for them in different countries. It makes sense to add the ability to play this type of âfeedâ via static url though.
If you want to add it into your own fork of the skill we have a simple method for playing mp3âs. Even better if you want to contribute that change back to the core version of the Skill
To play an mp3 in a Skill you would need to import the method from mycroft.util import play_mp3
then in the intent handler use: play_mp3(url)
If youâre contributing it back to the project too, then youâd want to add Belgium as an option in the Skill Settings so that users can switch.
I havenât tried the Squeeze Server as it hasnât been submitted to the Marketplace yet, so canât help with that one Iâm afraid.
Hi, thanks for the feedback;
Iâm very new to Mycroft, so adapting/writing skills is something Iâm not experienced in, neiterh do I have the time at the moment to learn it, but it doesnât seem that hard (already know Python)
Looking forward tot he weather update!
Regarding the news skill: maybe work woth country prefixes?
Kinda like:
[BE] VRT Nieuws
[NZ] Headlines from Mordor
[UK] BBC Breaking
etc?
makes it clear for everyone, and sorting is handled as wellâŚ
Great suggestion re the prefixes. Short, snappy, and easily recognisable.
The NZ channel I was looking at doesnât seem to have a publicly available RSS feed. Why wouldnât a public radio station want more people to hear their content?
If youâre interested in trying out Skill dev, checkout our Mycroft Skills Kit. From whatever you have Mycroft installed on you should be able to run mycroft-msk create, answer a few questions, and it will setup a Skill template for you to work from. When adding input and output phrases just put curly braces around the variables eg âplay {station} radioâ, ânow playing {station} radioâ and MSK will set these up as entities.
For some radio stations I have in my squeezeserver favorites, I also had to inspect the player element, or the running streams, to figure out the correct URL.
Alright, Iâm going to do a bit of updating on the News Skill