linusskucas/airplay-skill

Connect devices to play audio on mycroft through airplay

airplay-skill's Issues

UFW and airplay

UFW might block some ports. This is taken care of in the requirements.sh however, this is only for the 192.168.1.1/31 range of ip addresses, so for some people, who use different ip ranges, this might not work.

Solution:

I'll need to fix this, but now the solution is just to disable the firewall completely:
sudo ufw disable

Intent for getting track info

This would retrieve the track info from airplay and allow Mycroft to be able to answer questions about it.
Example:
Hey Mycroft, what song is playing?

This could also be useful for the Mark 2, where the screen could display the album artwork!

Better installation

Since we are building from the source, it may take a while to install. The skill should be updated so that it says how far along it is with the installation ("I'm almost done with the installation...")

Naming the device

If a user has more that one mycroft with this skill installed in it, the user right now will get confused because all the mycrofts have the same name. There are 2 possible solutions to this:

Solution 1:

On home, when the user registers the device, it asks for a name ->we could just use that name

solution 2:

Have the user name the devices themselves.

It could be a combination of the 2, like if solution 2 is set, we use that name but if it isn't then we use solution 1.