HOLMES V

HOLMES V is an enhanced version of HolmesIV

Install

The main assumption of HolmesV is that you may want to run only some pieces of the mycroft stack, this means the requirements vary wildly depending on the use case.

eg, if you are making a web chatbot you do not want the audio stack at all

by default HolmesV will only install the bare minimum requirements common to all individual services

pip install HolmesV==2021.9.8

you can perform a full recommended install with

pip install HolmesV[all]==2021.9.8

Additional requirements

Skills

the skills service is the most customizable

msm and padatious needs to be explicitly installed, automatically disabled if unavailable

pip install HolmesV[skills]==2021.9.8

Bus

if you want to run the messagebus (instead of connecting to an existing one)

pip install HolmesV[bus]==2021.9.8

Enclosure/GUI

if you want to run the enclosure service in order to connect mycroft-gui

pip install HolmesV[enclosure]==2021.9.8

STT

if you want to perform speech recognition

pip install HolmesV[stt]==2021.9.8

to install optional STT engines (google cloud)

pip install HolmesV[stt_engines]==2021.9.8

TTS

to install optional TTS engines (gTTS)

pip install HolmesV[tts_engines]==2021.9.8

Audio Service

if you want to install optional audio backends (vlc + pychromecast)

pip install HolmesV[audio_engines]==2021.9.8

Compatibility

you can only install one of HolmesV, HolmesIV or mycroft-core, they can not run side by side, each of those is an enhanced version of the former

Because Holmes is a drop in replacement that means import mycroft would conflict between alternative versions

HolmesV runs skills made for mycroft-core and interfaces with all known mycroft projects, see the awesome-mycroft-community for a selection of projects that you can integrate with HolmesV