Apply patches to mycroft-core at runtime

About

Contributing to Mycroft is a bit of a fight with upstream

this skill applies a bunch of monkey patches at runtime to add/fix things not merged into mycroft-core, full details in ovos_utils PR#15

Patches

MycroftSkill and FallbackSkill patches:

• add MycroftSkill.handle_skill_deactivated from https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/pull/1468 (improved)
• patch MycroftSkill.bind
  • enable SkillApi from https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/pull/1822
  • enable ovos_utils.intents.ConverseTracker
• patch MycroftSkill.voc_match https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/pull/2675
• patch MycroftSkill.gui to use patched SkillGUI (see bellow)
• patch MycroftSkill.init_dialog to use ovos_utils.lang.get_language_dir
• patch MycroftSkill.load_vocab_files to use ovos_utils.lang.get_language_dir
• patch MycroftSkill.load_regex_files to use ovos_utils.lang.get_language_dir

SkillGUI patches:

Video playback from https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/pull/2683

• add SkillGUI.play_video
• add SkillGUI.is_video_displayed
• add SkillGUI.playback_status
• add SkillGUI.pause_video
• add SkillGUI.resume_video
• add SkillGUI.stop_video

Skill settings from https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/pull/2698

• add SkillGUI.register_settings
• add SkillGUI.show_settings

CommonPlaySkill patches:

• add CPSMatchType from https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/pull/2660

Platform support

• :heavy_check_mark: - tested and confirmed working
• :x: - incompatible/non-functional
• :question: - untested
• :construction: - partial support

platform	status	tag	version	last tested
Chatterbox	:question:	dev		never
HolmesV	:question:	dev		never
LocalHive	:question:	dev		never
Mycroft Mark1	:question:	dev		never
Mycroft Mark2	:question:	dev		never
NeonGecko	:question:	dev		never
OVOS	:question:	dev		never
Picroft	:question:	dev		never
Plasma Bigscreen	:question:	dev		never

• tag - link to github release / branch / commit
• version - link to release/commit of platform repo where this was tested

Credits

JarbasAI

Category

Configuration

Tags

#patch #monkey-patch