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OVOS GUI MessageBus

ovos-gui is the GUI messagebus service for ovos-core. It manages GUI state and implements the GUI protocol.

GUI clients (the applications that draw the GUI) connect to this service over a websocket.

Configuration

Configure the service under mycroft.conf.

{
  "gui": {
    // Override: SYSTEM (set by specific enclosures)
    // Uncomment or add "idle_display_skill" to set the initial homescreen
    // "idle_display_skill": "skill-ovos-homescreen.openvoiceos",

    // Extensions are plugins that add GUI platform support for specific devices.
    // For example, set extension to "ovos-gui-plugin-shell-companion" if you use ovos-shell.
    "extension": "generic",

    // The default generic extension can provide homescreen functionality if enabled.
    "generic": {
        "homescreen_supported": false
    },

    // Optionally set a default QT version for connected clients that do not report one.
    // NOTE: currently only QT5 clients exist
    "default_qt_version": 5
  },

  // The GUI messagebus websocket. One port is created per connected GUI.
  "gui_websocket": {
    "host": "0.0.0.0",
    "base_port": 18181,
    "route": "/gui",
    "ssl": false
  }
}

Plugins

Plugins add platform-specific GUI functionality, such as showing a homescreen or closing a window.

You usually do not need any of these plugins unless a GUI client application tells you to install one.

Limitations

Skills and other OVOS components populate GUI resource files under the local OVOS cache directory. GUI client applications must be able to reach these files.

This means a GUI client must run on the same machine as ovos-gui, or implement its own access to the resource files. Resolving page names to URIs is the responsibility of the client application.

TODO: a new repository will host the removed GUI file server, to serve resource files from the cache directory to client apps.

In a container setup, mount a shared volume between ovos-gui, the skills service, and the GUI client apps.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

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