skill-news 0.0.3a1

mycroft/ovos news skill plugin

News Streams

News Streams catalog

About

News streams from around the globe

PRs adding new feeds welcome, especially for unsupported languages

Supported stations include:

• [EN-US] AP - Associated Press Hourly Radio News
• [EN-US] Fox News
• [EN-US] NPR News Now
• [EN-US] PBS NewsHour
• [EN-US] GPB - Georgia Public Broadcasting
• [EN-GB] BBC News
• [EN-CA] CBC News
• [ES-ES] RNE Radio Nacional de España
• [PT-PT] TSF Rádio Notícias
• [NL] VRT Nieuws
• [DE] Ö3 Nachrichten
• [DE] DLF
• [DE] WDR
• [FI] YLE
• [SV] Ekot

Installation

If you are using this skill, you have to disable the official skill because they are incompatible

To play https streams properly you also need to install vlc

sudo apt-get install vlc

and make it the default it in your .conf

  "Audio": {
    "backends": {
      "local": {
        "active": false
      },
      "vlc": {
        "active": true
      }
    },
    "default-backend": "vlc"
  },

Examples

• "play the news"
• "play npr news"
• "play euronews"
• "play catalan news"
• "play portuguese news"
• "play news in spanish"

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

• JarbasAl

Category

Information

Tags

#news