- The default PopcornTime API host has changed, as popcorn-time.ga is no
longer available.
- The iMDb API now requires a paid tier even for a basic query. The
official iMDb API layer (and the API key requirement) has thus been
replaced with a dear ol' scraping of the frontend endpoint.
- Pass of Black/LINT.
This allows loading spinners, modals and other components with a real
fullscreen background to stretch over the required space, without being
covered by the navigator or other sibling components.
This also requires the collapsed navigator to have a 1px margin-right,
or its separation border won't be visible.
The plugin now leverages the `sound` plugin for playback, like all other
`tts` plugins now do, instead of an external `media` plugin.
This also removes the need for the `/tts/mimic3/say` endpoint.
- Added `input_format`/`output_format` options to both input and output
audio streams.
- Replaced the previous (confusing) occurrences of `ffmpeg_format` and
`format`.
- Added custom `dtype` option for `sound.play`.
- Added `join` flag (default: false) to `sound.play` to wait for the
playback to finish.
Different versions of the `sounddevice` dependency may or may not return
the `index` parameter when querying the available sound devices.
Thus, the code should be ready for both cases.
The integration was based on my old fork of the AVS service, which is no
longer functional given the changes the the Amazon's backend side.
A new `avs-device-sdk` is now available, but it seems that it requires
lengthy compilation processes which are RaspberryPi-specific.
Further investigation is needed for a new Alexa plugin - see #334.
It hurts to see it go, as I really believed in this project.
But the website of the project went away in 2020, the Github project
hasn't seen any activity since 2021, and the fork that is supposed to be
used as a replacement for training .pmdl models hasn't been updated
since 2021 - and it only supports Python 2 on Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04.
One day I may dedicate some efforts to bring Snowboy back to life, but
until then it's definitely not in a state where it's usable for a
Platypush integration.
