snips-alarm: Timers and alarms
A skill for Snips.ai with a multi-room alarm clock. This is a complete re-write of MrJohnZoidberg/Snips-Wecker with bug-fixes.
Features
- Customizable (ringtone sound, volume, ringing timeout)
- Multi-room capable:
- Fully localized. Currently, a German translation is included. Other translations can be easily added without programming. Contributions are welcome. See below.
Configuration
config.ini contains the skill's settings. This file must exist but may be empty.
See config.ini.default for a list of options with default values.
The most important ones in the [DEFAULT] section are:
| Parameter name | Default | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| playback_volume | 60 | 0 - 100 | Volume of the ringtone |
| playback_timeout | 30 | > 0 | Time in seconds until ringing stops |
| playback_alarm_wav | resources/alarm-sound.wav | Path to a WAV ring tone file |
Options in the [DEFAULT] section are used across all rooms, unless they are
overridden in a site / room specific section. Sensible values are used for all missing
options.
For room-specific settings, add a section with the site name, e.g. [bedroom]
and custom options. The section name must conincide with Snips' vocabulary.
If a room is unknown, you'll hear an error message with the known room name.
For each site section, a site_id option is required, matching the ID
in the bind directive of /etc/snips.toml for that site.
Usage
(For German example sentences, see Snips-Wecker).
While ringing
You can stop an alarm by saying the hotword, usually "Hey Snips!". This may not work if the ringing volume is too loud.
Translations
By default, the system language is used. For other languages,
set the LANG environment variable appropriately, e.g. to fr_FR.UTF-8.
An easy way to do this is starting snips-skill-server with a LANG setting.
Translation files are found in the locale folder.
No programming is necessary to create a new translation:
- Get POEdit.
- Use it to open messages.pot.
- Choose your language and translate 30-40 lines of text.
- To test, place the result in
localedir/language/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po. - Please share new translations. Thanks!