Support of "shortcuts"

[stritti]

I think there should be some mappings for short commands like:

• EN: "music louder" -> "increase music 10%"
• EN: "mute music" -> "set music to 0%"
• DE: "Licht aus" -> "schalte das Licht aus"

[ghys]

Yeah OpenNLP is sometimes confused with short sentences like this. I planned "increase" and "decrease" skills for later, as well as player controls ("previous track/next track/play/pause etc."). In theory "Licht aus" should work after enough training ("<OBJECT:object> Licht <END> aus" and a couple other similar lines in deactivate-object.txt). There is one implemented shortcut though: if you simply state the name of a tag without "object:" or "location:" it will simply interpret it as a get-status intent for the tag, that way you're presented with controls and can operate yourself. It will only work as long as you have visual feedback though (i.e. not audio only).

[stritti]

You are correct "Licht aus" should be a deactivate-intent. On the other hand I found (especially in German), that you will talk/write in telegram fashion. I think some "shortcuts" or "aliases" could solve this because otherwise we have to add a lot attributes in the items-config.

One example (I translate 1:1 in worse English):

• "How warm is it in living room?" (Wie warm ist es im Wohnzimmer?) -> "give me the temperature in the living room"

[ghys]

Understood.

Later on there will be a way to configure new intents and supply the training data without code. So for instance you would be able to add a "get-temperature" intent with training sentences like wie warm ist es im <object:location> Wohnzimmer <END> which would forward to get-status and add the "object:temperatur" entity. You could also run a rule or send a command. It's not very clear in my head how that'll be specified.

For now you can simply state "Temperatur" or "Wohnzimmer" or "Temperatur im Wohnzimmer" and the existing shortcuts or the get-status training should yield what you expect :)