NAO Fair autostart

Process that runs on a NAO v6 and performs the trigger assignment stored by the NAO Fair app. It starts at boot, in the robot's Python 2.7, the same way as the microphone bridge. The app is not required to be running.

While the NAO Fair app is connected it renews a lease through NAOqi about once a second, and this process ignores triggers. An explicit release, or 20 seconds without a renewal, hands the triggers back. The assignment itself is a JSON file under /home/nao/nao-fair-autostart/assignment.json, so it survives a reboot. ALMemory is only the live channel.

The process speaks with the robot's own TTS, stops speech, waves, nods, shakes, sits, stands, and stops a gesture. Gespräch beenden stops speech. Gespräch starten, Gespräch umschalten, and Gespräch beenden und Kontext löschen do nothing here.

Installing it from the NAO Fair app, and detecting that it is already present, comes later. Until then, copy a checkout by hand.

Install a local checkout

On Linux, or in WSL, from this directory:

sh packaging/install_on_nao.sh nao@ROBOT_IP

The script asks for the nao SSH password, copies the files to /home/nao/nao-fair-autostart/, registers /home/nao/nao-fair-autostart/run_forever.sh under [program] in /home/nao/naoqi/preferences/autoload.ini, and starts the process. Do not add it under [python]. That section runs inside NAOqi.

From a checkout already on the robot, as the nao user:

sh packaging/install_local.sh

A robot without this process still accepts a NAO Fair app connection. The app reports that the autostart assignment was not stored.

On the robot

Stop it:

ssh nao@ROBOT_IP /home/nao/nao-fair-autostart/run_forever.sh stop

Follow the log:

ssh nao@ROBOT_IP tail -f /home/nao/nao-fair-autostart/run_forever.log

ALMemory keys

There is no extra secret. Anyone who can already reach NAOqi can already make the robot speak.