ChangeLog

From VoxCommando

Revision as of 01:59, 19 January 2011

NEW: click HERE to add your own feature requests

planned for future releases (not necessarily the next version)

• A price tag. I will start by asking $25 USD very soon. It is not too late to donate $20 and get free lifetime updates.
• GENxml for other software?
• a function to display payload phrases from an xmlPayload file (useful for help)
• Sexy skins for the OSD - possibly html, richtext, or flash based.
  • I'm considering a separate application that can receive commands via udp and display them in flash.
• a new launch command that uses default browser to open URL
• direct calls to actions from UDP (EventGhost, TellVox, Intelliremote)
• ability to trigger actions from the command builder (no support for payloads)
• ability to trigger commands from the command editor (maybe...)
• support for JSON control of XBMC instead of using http api
• scan folders for files and create payloadXML files
  • can be used to open pretty much any file by name
  • can be used to request movies in WMC, for example

version 0.87 released Jan 2011

I'm sorry I have not been updating the changelog, but good significant stuff has been added and VC continues to evolve and grow! I will try to get to this page soon.

• commands to check gmail for new messages / message headers
• Improved background grammar building and startup time
• New GenXML (iTunes and WMC)
• New main window with new menu items and quick access to Gen-All-XML for XBMC, iTunes, Mediamonkey and WMC.
• Copy and paste from excel to payload editor (version 0.72)
• Various bug fixes (including Vox listening when in "off" mode in version 0.86
• Overlay Icon to show VoxState
• OSD and Alternates can be sent to XBMC as notification
• XBMC event client/server commands support added (faster than http commands)
• and more...

version 0.845 released Nov 16th, 2010

• Improvements to command bin and to command editor
• Added support for Amulet Voice Remote
  • mic status accelerometer allows VC to listen or not listen, and reduce volume depending on status of mic.
• New MediaMonkey Commands
  • MM.SoftMute
  • MM.SoftUnute
  • MM.NPList (returns now playing list)
  • MM.SetCurrentTrack (starts playing track n from the nowplaying list)
• New command: Results.StoreLast for creating user variables
• New commands: System.Sleep, System.Hibernate, System.Monitor.Off, System.Monitor.On
• Extended functionality of OSD.ShowText to control timing and placement.
  • eg: OSD.ShowText.9000,100 test
  • this will display the word test, for 9 seconds, 100 pixels from the bottom of the screen.

version 0.84

• Request Songs in WMC (first select artist, then select a song by that artist)
• "Command Bin" to make import/export and storage of unused commands easier.
  • the command Bin is going to be very useful, but the first release will probably buggy / incomplete
• Fixed the listen single command used with a remote.
• GenXML commands
  • Gen All MediaMonkey
  • Gen All XBMC
• Direct button control of MediaPortal
  • remote control type commands, no string requests, no info retrieval
  • you'll need to install a small plugin in MediaPortal if you don't already have it
• More basic commands for MediaMonkey (setshuffle true etc.)
• Fixed: MediaMonkey.SetRating
• Added TTS.setvolume
• Group priority (commands in higher priority groups will execute before alternates)
• Group specific prefix/override (use a non-default prefix for certain groups)

changes to 0.83

• Added mouse emulation (left, right, middle click, move relative, move absolute)
• Fixed bug when dragging and dropping a command group. The dropped group would become "disabled" (red x)
• Added support for confirm command (still incomplete)
  • set phrases for confirm and cancel in options
  • set time before automatically cancelling in options
• Added auto-check-and-reset microphone on timed interval
• Added emulation of phrase on startup
• Added emulation of phrase on idle time-out
• Changed: emulated commands (via EG or tellvox) will execute even if VC is in Standby Mode
• Added option to show Alternates (separate from show OSD for recognized commands)
• Added Genre to XBMC GenXML
• Added new commands VC.Enablegroup* and VC.Disablegroup*
  • (works the same as VC.Enablegroup but using the string as a wildcard
  • example: ( VC.Enablegroup | xbmc ) will enable all groups with names that contain xbmc
• Improvement: payloadXML files which are used in multiple commands should now load faster since the first one gets re-used instead of being re-created.
• Improved function of the command selection tree (magic wand)
  • you can now double click a command to select it
  • when you open the tree the current command (if you have one) will be selected

changes to 0.82

• Window positions are saved and restored for the main window and tree editor
• New RegEx commands allow you to get specific info that is returned from applications
  • this allows for example to get now playing info from XBMC and WMC and to do something with it (i.e TTS or OSD or send to EventGhost)
  • please note that the RegEx command is not quite finished and I may change how it works in future versions
• New command to retrieve weather from The Weather Network
• I think I fixed a bug with the way VoxCommando was detecting older versions requiring an update to voicecommands.xml

changes to 0.801

• new: command Window.Focus to focus a window by name(needs more development)
• fix: idle time-out to be extended (timer reset) when a command is issued
• new: command VC.TellVox to emulate speech and thereby call other commands (spaghetti danger!)
• new: a command to play wav files
• new: more commands for direct control of mediaMonkey including:
  • load playlist by name
  • load songs by sql queries (fast and powerful).
  • currentsongdata returns information about the currently playing song
    • data available: album, artist,conductor,genre,id,mood,path,playcounter,rating,title,year
• new: variables that can be used in the command builder such as
  • {shortdate}, {longdate}, {shorttime} etc.
  • {lastresult} this can be used to retrieve the results of the previous command
  • *I am still thinking about how to allow users to access the parts of lastresult they need...
  • works well with MM.currentsongdata
  • this will be a BIG addition when I get it working properly!

changes to 0.8

• so many things... I have forgotten!
• new command action structure using dot notation (e.g. xmbc.send, itunes.play)
• starting to add basic support for MediaMonkey Commands
• new filter command for XBMC performs smstyle input to filter lists based on a string.
  • this can be used for example to filter movies by year, or by name. If you filter on "rings" it will show you all your "Lord of the Rings" movies.
• new GENxml button for XBMC TvShows
• new options for payloadXML files.
  • They can now be used as value/phrase pairs, or just use phrases (ignoring values column)
  • Just using phrases is much faster to load, so if you don't need access the value field it is better

changes to 0.796

• added GENxml to create payloads for XBMC songs (function for other programs will be added later)
• improvement: much faster loading of all payloadXML files at startup

changes to 0.795

• added: RESTART BUTTON !! No more closing and restarting every time you make changes.
• added: column for repeat # to allow multiple execution of actions
• added: ability to use payloads in "maxloops" field of command builder.
  • you can use a number or a payload in this column so you can do "move up 5" etc.
• added: drag and drop reordering in command builder
• added: udp listening to emulate speech-recognition by sending commands from "tellvox" application or eventghost via upd messages

• added: VoxCommando command off to turn Vox completely off (red) with voice command
• added: ability to view which grammars are active (on) and toggle them on and off by clicking as well as by voice commands.
• added: button to clear command history
• changed: layout of main interface
• added: ability to view which grammars are active (on) and toggle them on and off by clicking as well as by voice commands.

• fixed: editing cloned commands before saving edits the original command as well!
• fixed: cloned commands don't retain loop settings!
• fixed: WOL (wake on lan) and Pause commands