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VoxCommando Basics and Core Features / question about switching speech profiles

« on: July 24, 2016, 01:11:08 AM »

So I had this thought, and tried to implement it but failed.

Heads up, i'm using the voxcommando legacy version 1 just FYI:

What my thought was, is to, when I say a command "computer", or whatever, detect the recognition of that command, if its above a threshold say 90+ then leave it on the speech profile its currently on, if below, then switch to the second profile i.e my wife's. Simple enough but not having any luck there.

I was able to get the previous command, the one I want detected, and store it in a variable, but now i need to know if this variable failed was less than my threshold.

The thing is, there is no ability native I see within Vox to grab the last commands speech recongnation percent attempt. it shows up in the info panel, but not the logs its self, so i cant scrub that and use it in code as i hoped. Nor is there a native approach, that I saw.

I think if i can get this to work, this could be an awesome way to recognize the users and switch between at least two profiles as its been spoken, maybe.. I know there is a restart that is needed to occur, i'm beyond that.

Any thoughts or ideas? I see there is a new variable that was created in version two called: {LastInfo} it does reference the logs, is this the key i'm missing? will this give me the last commands percentage?

Thanks in advance as always!

EDIT: I think even knowing if the attempted command failed would work, but i'm not even able to get that ability to function, the lastactionsuccess in the logic didn't help there either.

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Integration Ideas / Cheap Front door home monitor design - so far working great!

« on: March 06, 2014, 04:55:00 PM »

Design I wanted:

When motion is detected at my front door, have skype place a video call to me automatically, via the skype App on my iphone. Showing me my webcam feed.
Also have it where i can place a video call with the computer..which is obliviously running skype, so i can view the webcam at my front door whenever i like.

(this can be done with more expensive setup i.e vera and add-ons, but I wanted to test this with little money as possible at the moment)

Money spent: $12 (logitech c170 webcam from wallmart)
32 foot ext USB cable: (already had this, but it was roughly 15-20bucks, amazon, or monoprice.com, i think its cheaper there)

Software:
VC
Skype
Skype Mobile
icam (from http://skjm.com/icam/ -Free software used for motion detection. i liked this one as i was able to make grids of where i wanted motion to only be detected at)
manycam.com (Free software- This was required to work 100% all the time , so i can make a virtual webcam driver, to use with icam and skype at the same time. I tried without this, trust me using send keys to stop and start icam before skype started wasnt working out very well)
VAC (virtual Audio Cable, using this to get the sound from the webcam feed back into Skype video call!)
Event Ghost (This was needed to monitor a directory using directory watcher, where snap shots from my webcam was taken during when motion detected via iCam software, this triggered an event, which was passed to VC which then setup the video call to my phone)

Here is my cheap front door home monitor, I know there are better setup ideas out there. But it does great for what i'm testing out right now.
So I am planning later to get veralite, but didnt have the money at the money to toss toward it and get the camera I wanted and motion sensors.

All it cost me was a 12 buck USB webcam. (i already had a 32foot USB cable which i was using for the kinetic extension)

I placed this cheap camera in the corner ceiling of my front porch, i'm very surprised i told my wife i don't think it will last the night. so far its lasted about a week, in temperatures of single digits at night, with snow on the ground at the moment..(its not water proof, so we'll see how long it really does last)

Plugged in the webcam to my 32 foot cable, ran it through the attic back to my computer.

Setup all software, much testing and tweaking, and now works every time! - So far!

I can see my webcam whenever i want via skype on my cell phone no matter where i'm at. as Skype works from skype user to skype user for free.
I can hear my audio from my webcam feed from skype also.
I have the motion grid setup so I only detect parts which wont cause false positives. I.e tree or bush moving etc.

I can share my xml's and configurations with anyone if you're curious. i just didnt want to at the moment if no one was intesrted. and I would have wasted my time.

-Future improvement if this works well.
:Outdoor weather proof rated camera, which is IR capable.
:Replace setup with Vera? Maybe.. depends on if this doesn't go smooth later on..so far its working great!

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EventGhost / EG and VC, a little novice help

« on: March 03, 2014, 12:48:33 PM »

I posted this on the EG forum but i think i would get a better response here as its VC that i'm using with EG. Also no one has responded there either :/

Here is my situation, and i could be going by this all wrong, but here is what i know now.


I'm rather new to all of this, but have some very basic programming knowledge. I'm having a hard time getting EG to do what I need it to do.

Its for my Onkyo receiver. i can get it to send out a QSTN to my receiver and get a response back just fine. What i need it to do now is send this response back to VC within the broadcast to VC.

I have it working but its a very sub-par way of doing it i'm sure. Right now depending on the response back: example: OnkyoISCP.SLI00 i make another macro that broadcast this is for source TV/CD (via a payload: eg.AVR_Source&&CD) and send it to voxcommando. read CD as the pay load and then i use it to do what i need.

now, i've done this with all sources, this is not ideal, if i can just make a single macro in Event Ghost that says whatever the result is returned via the first QSTN from my receiver's event, add this to the broadcaster payload, such as that would be a variable that would always change depending on my source it returns. Such as: eg.AVR_Source&&{QSTN_answer} This way i dont need to manually add macro's for each source returned. Also this will teach me more on how to use this program and i can use this for other tasks later on.

I have tried this: eg.AVR_Source&&{eg.result} hoping the response back from the event in EG would populate the result, but it doesnt work this way apparently as i get None everytime.

I hope this makes sense, any help would be appreciated!

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Bug Reports / Skype IM message bug?

« on: February 27, 2014, 10:22:15 PM »

Great application first of all i love it. I do think I found a bug maybe?

I use the Skype plugin to control my equipment via the IM feature of Skype and VC. One thing i found is when i use the Skype.Chat.cmsReceived as an event, it does work. but not 100% of the time.

I may have to type in the same IM several times, usually no more than 3 times before Voxcommando picks up the event. It does show up immediately on Skype on my PC, however not in the history events of Voxcommando, until the 2nd or third attempt. Which obliviously my macro doesn't occur until the event is triggered.

I have noticed that once the event has been triggered once, it will work 100% of the time there after. Until its been idle and i haven't issued a command in sometime from there.

Any thoughts?

I have to keep coping and pasting my IM in several times before it goes off, it does make it kinda of annoying.