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Mycroft

Mycroft is an open source voice assistant that allows you to send notifications and more to Mycroft from Home Assistant.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

  • Notifications - Allows to deliver notifications from Home Assistant to Mycroft AI.

Configuration

To use Mycroft in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
mycroft:
  host: 0.0.0.0

Configuration Variables

hoststringRequired

The IP address of your Mycroft instance.

Using notifications

To use Mycroft for sending notifications, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - platform: mycroft
    name: mycroft

Configuration Variables

namestringRequired

Frendly name of your Mycroft instance.

Examples

Send a mesage to Mycroft by calling notify.mycroft service:

message: "hey"