feat/improve_legacy_support

README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Handles TTS generation and sounds playback
 plugins.
 
 Without `extras`, you will also need to manually install,
-and possibly configure TTS and Audio Backend modules as described below.
+and possibly configure TTS modules as described below.
 
 # Configuration
 
@@ -20,16 +20,11 @@ under mycroft.conf
 {
 
   // Text to Speech parameters
-  // Override: REMOTE
   "tts": {
-    "pulse_duck": false,
-    "module": "ovos-tts-plugin-mimic3-server",
+    "module": "ovos-tts-plugin-server",
     "fallback_module": "ovos-tts-plugin-mimic",
     "ovos-tts-plugin-mimic": {
         "voice": "ap"
-    },
-    "ovos-tts-plugin-mimic3-server": {
-        "voice": "en_UK/apope_low"
     }
   },
 
@@ -42,15 +37,56 @@ under mycroft.conf
   },
 
   // Mechanism used to play WAV audio files
-  // Override: SYSTEM
   "play_wav_cmdline": "paplay %1 --stream-name=mycroft-voice",
 
   // Mechanism used to play MP3 audio files
-  // Override: SYSTEM
   "play_mp3_cmdline": "mpg123 %1",
 
   // Mechanism used to play OGG audio files
-  // Override: SYSTEM
   "play_ogg_cmdline": "ogg123 -q %1"
 }
-```
+```
+
+## Using Legacy AudioService
+
+The legacy audio service supports audio playback via the old mycroft api ([@mycroft](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/blob/dev/mycroft/skills/audioservice.py#L43) [@ovos](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-bus-client/blob/dev/ovos_bus_client/apis/ocp.py#L51))
+
+by default OCP acts as a translation layer for this api and no action is needed, but if you want to disable ocp this api remains available
+
+> **NOTE:** once ovos-media is released OCP and this api will be disabled by default and deprecated!
+
+```javascript
+{
+    "enable_old_audioservice": true,
+    "disable_ocp": true,
+    "Audio": {
+        "default-backend": "vlc",
+        "backends": {
+          "simple": {
+            "type": "ovos_audio_simple",
+            "active": true
+          },
+          "vlc": {
+            "type": "ovos_vlc",
+            "active": true
+          }
+        }
+    }
+  },
+}
+```
+
+legacy plugins:
+- [ocp](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-ocp-audio-plugin)
+- [vlc](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-vlc-plugin)
+- [simple](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-audio-plugin-simple) (no https support)
+
+**OCP technical details:**
+
+- OCP was developed for mycroft-core under this legacy system
+- OCP will pose as a legacy plugin and translate the received bus events to the [OCP api](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-bus-client/blob/dev/ovos_bus_client/apis/ocp.py#L228)
+- OCP is **always** the default audio plugin, unless you set `"disable_ocp": true` in config
+- OCP uses the legacy api internally, to delegate playback when GUI is not available (or configured to do so)
+- this does **NOT** bring support for old Mycroft CommonPlay skills, that is related to skills service not ovos-audio
+- this brings support for [OCP skills](https://openvoiceos.github.io/ovos-technical-manual/OCP_skills) to OVOS until [ovos-media](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-media) is finished
+- [ovos-media](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-media) will fully replace OCP in **ovos-audio 0.2.0**

ovos_audio/service.py

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class PlaybackService(Thread):
     def __init__(self, ready_hook=on_ready, error_hook=on_error,
                  stopping_hook=on_stopping, alive_hook=on_alive,
                  started_hook=on_started, watchdog=lambda: None,
-                 bus=None, disable_ocp=False, validate_source=True):
+                 bus=None, disable_ocp=None, validate_source=True):
         super(PlaybackService, self).__init__()
 
         LOG.info("Starting Audio Service")
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ def __init__(self, ready_hook=on_ready, error_hook=on_error,
 
         self.audio = None
         self.audio_enabled = self.config.get("enable_old_audioservice", True)  # TODO default to False soon
+        if disable_ocp is None:
+            disable_ocp = self.config.get("disable_ocp", False)  # TODO default to True soon
+        self.disable_ocp = disable_ocp
         if self.audio_enabled:
             try:
                 self.audio = AudioService(self.bus, disable_ocp=disable_ocp, validate_source=validate_source)
@@ -243,8 +246,10 @@ def handle_opm_audio_query(self, message):
     def run(self):
         self.status.set_alive()
         if self.audio_enabled:
-            LOG.warning("audio service has moved to ovos-media, if you already migrated to ovos-media "
-                        'set "enable_old_audioservice": false in mycroft.conf')
+            LOG.info("Legacy AudioService enabled")
+            if not self.disable_ocp:
+                LOG.warning("OCP has moved to ovos-media, if you already migrated to ovos-media "
+                            'set "disable_ocp": true in mycroft.conf')
             if self.audio.wait_for_load():
                 if len(self.audio.service) == 0:
                     LOG.warning('No audio backends loaded! '