ovos-ui-enclosure-protocol

The consumer/listener home of the legacy Mark-1 hardware enclosure protocol for OpenVoiceOS.

The enclosure.* bus messages control the Mark-1 hardware enclosure: the LED eyes, the mouth/faceplate display, and the system LEDs. This package provides EnclosureProtocolListener, a consumer mix-in that a hardware enclosure plugin inherits to wire the enclosure.* subscriptions to overridable no-op handlers. ovos-PHAL-plugin-mk1 is the reference listener implementation.

The producer side, EnclosureAPI, is the skill-facing helper that emits enclosure.*. It lives in ovos-gui-api-client alongside GUIInterface, so self.gui and self.enclosure come from the same client.

The enclosure protocol is no longer a core abstraction: PHALPlugin in ovos-plugin-manager no longer bakes in the enclosure.* handlers, and modern visual output is done through GUIInterface (OVOS-GUI-1). This package exists so hardware enclosure plugins keep a stable, dependency-light home for the listener side of the protocol. It does not reimplement GUI templates.

Install

pip install ovos-ui-enclosure-protocol

Implementing a listener

from ovos_ui_enclosure_protocol import EnclosureProtocolListener

class MyEnclosure(EnclosureProtocolListener):
    def __init__(self, bus):
        self.bus = bus
        self.register_enclosure_namespace()

    def on_eyes_color(self, message=None):
        ...  # drive the hardware

    def shutdown(self):
        self.shutdown_enclosure_namespace()

Every handler defaults to a no-op, so a plugin only overrides the commands its hardware supports. ovos-PHAL-plugin-mk1 is the reference listener implementation.

Documentation

• docs/index.md: overview, install, listener guide.
• docs/enclosure-protocol.md: the full enclosure.* message contract with producers and listeners.

License

Apache-2.0