Kenzy

Added

- Dashboard updates for sorting lists, viewing device details, and developers section
- `log_level` device option for skillmanager for log visibility in dashboard
- Added acknowledgement sound when text-to-audio does not exist in cache.
- Added info section on dashboard for devices list
- Added ability to start/stop child devices via control panel

Modified

- Fixed start/stop calls to TTS library
- Fixed `play_wav_file` to allow for files outside of program path
- Fixed offline setting for transformers up through v4.11
- Fixed bug in skillmanager skill download to stop running skills before replacing

Change Log

Added

- Activity section on dashboard for info from cameras
- Added external player call for playing wave and speech files

Modified

- Fixed bug in multi-location setup where all nodes activated when any node received command
- Fixed bug in locations count on dashboard
- Fixed errant text in dashboard about page
- Fixed compatibility in setuptools deprecation notices
- Fixed bug in ASK that forced timeout to occur before moving to next command

Help & Support

Help and additional details is available at https://kenzy.ai/

Added

- Data capture to kenzy.skillmanager.device -> history for all in/out of skill manager
- Data capture to kenzy.skillmanager.device -> data for all current data (for reference in skills)
- WatcherSkill for articulating what is captured on one or more kenzy.image devices
- Callback Triggers for skills for non-speech activity (like kenzy.image)
- Ability to set a custom name for built-in devices

Modified

- Locks, Covers, and Lights can be disabled/enabled as a group in the HomeAssistantSkill
- Using the keyword "all" or plural form of lights, lamps, or fans in HomeAssistantSkill will toggle all lights/fans/lamps in the specified area
- Stopped `collect()` from sending data until service registration is complete
- Integrated kenzy-skills library on github for skills inventory and download
- Updated docs for individual skills

Help & Support
Help and additional details is available at [https://kenzy.ai](https://kenzy.ai)

Changes

Added

- Added a default configuration for the base kenzy startup (saved to .kenzy/config.yml).
- Core support for versioning skills. (use `self._version` to set version number).
- Added `--skip` and `--only` options to skip or include device configs in provided file.
- New skill option for WeatherSkill (requires API key from [openweathermap.org](http://openweathermap.org))
- Added option to set default value when getting settings in skills

Modified

- Changed startup to use Multiprocessing instead of Threads for each device main runtime
- Added ThreadingMixIn to HTTPServer (oops!)
- Set default of "Kenzy's Room" and "Kenzy's Group" for location and group respectively
- Improved responses to the "How are you" question.

Help & Support
Help and additional details is available at [https://kenzy.ai](https://kenzy.ai)

Modified

- Fixed bug in skillmanager.device.collect
- Fixed bug in core.KenzyRequestHandler.log_message
- Fixed bug in *Cameras* count on dashboard

Added

- Settings handler for consistency when customizing per device settings
- GPUs can be leveraged for torch and cuda enabled models
- Added options for saving video of detected people
- Directly incorporated kenzy_image into kenzy.image.core.detector
- Added reloadFaces logic to kenzy.image.detector (formerly of the kenzy-image package)
- Added voice activation with configurable timeout
- Added multi-model support for speak-to-text
- Added configurable timeout for SSDP client requests
- Added extras helpers to extract numbers from strings and convert numbers to english words.
- Added clean text routine for supporting the rich output from OpenAi's Whisper model
- Basic support for simultaneous actions (such as two listener+speakers in two rooms connected to same skillmanager)
- Object recognition, Face detection, and Face recognition with optimizations to minimize processing time with support for multiple models
- Configurable saving of videos based on object detection alerts

Modified

- Settings/Configuration files can now be stored in JSON or YAML files
- Moved watcher to kenzy.image.device.VideoReader
- Moved listener to kenzy.stt.device.AudioReader
- Moved speaker to kenzy.tts.device.AudioWriter
- Restructured devices to allow for direct calls for "main" in each of image, stt, and tts
- Split out detector/creator processes for each of hte core functions into their own modules (e.g. kenzy.image.detector, kenzy.stt.detector, etc.)
- Moved all devices to their own HTTP server module when run as clients
- Fixed the UPNP logic so that it honors the full UPNP spec for control interface lookups
- Updated skills intent function signature to include **kwargs for additional values like raw text captured
- Fixed the context inclusion and usage for action/response activities (uses "location" for relative responses)
- Completely overhauled dashboard

Removed

- Dropped support for PyQt5 panels
- Dropped direct support for Kasa smart switch/plug devices
- Dropped unnecessary libraries (urllib3, netifaces)
- Dropped support for MyCroft libraries "mimic3" (created forked version of padatious for future internal support)
- Dropped direct support for Raspberry Pi due to hardware limitations