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Amulet Remote / Re: Amulet Remote and VirtualBox

« on: October 18, 2015, 04:30:40 PM »

If the Amulet dongle is properly recognized in the guest OS, then it shouldn't work in the host at the same time. Is this the case?  Or does it continue to work in the host OS as a microphone at all times?

What is the host OS you're using?

Hi ajith, Thanks, Sorry didn't mean to insinuate those were concurrently happening. No thats not the case, you can only see in either the guest or the host, correct.

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Amulet Remote / Re: Amulet Remote and VirtualBox

« on: October 18, 2015, 04:01:50 PM »

Thanks ajith.
I did manage to did up my old behemoth laptop that has win10 on it.
It does in fact work....but that laptops outdated and its massive size leaves me to sort out problematically thinking of where to put it.

I have tried most of your ideas, I was using the 'check for updates' feature w/in Vbox itself but it was saying I was up to date. I was on 5.0 but on the site 5.06 is available. I know initially post 5.0 had win 10 issues.  I manually updated to 5.06.  loaded the updated extension packs and the guest additions. Cleared out the usb filter and loaded the normal console to vet the guest additions and manually click the Amulet devices.
Unfortunately nothing has changed. I shutdown guests. rebooted host. Confirmed amulet works on the host too. Still cant get the actual audio in the guest to work.
Affirm wasn't creating bare usb filter, just selecting from the available recognized usb devices.

@vulcanjedi - James and Nime5ter already have suggested most of the things I can think of. Did you try the Amulet remote with your Win 10 laptop? Did it work as a microphone (could you record audio using Sound Recorder?)?

Here's something I would try at this point:

What is the version of Oracle Virtualbox you're using? If it isn't the latest, can you try upgrading it to the latest (5.0.6 right now)? To upgrade, it only takes a download and an install, as you'd do if it were the first time. The guest VM definition and virtual OS disk is preserved across the upgrade. After this install,
1. make sure you also install Virtualbox's companion "extension pack" for the corresponding version of Virtualbox and
2. Install and upgrade the "guest additions" within the guest VM using the CD ISO image that Virtualbox provides.
3. Reboot the VM and try the Amulet as a microphone.

Also, I hope you are not creating the USB filters by hand. The filters should appear under USB configuration in Virtualbox automatically, once the Amulet USB dongle is plugged in. At this point, you should have to just enable the checkbox against the filter. If you upgrade as described above, try to remove all USB filters, reboot VM and re-create the filters by plugging in the Amulet dongle.

-Ajith

@Nime5ter - those are some very kind words you mentioned about me

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: In Progress TV shows help?

« on: October 18, 2015, 12:43:12 PM »

Ah I was trying  hard to stay w/ the standard of the existing commands for recently added tv / movies.
But this did in fact work
"window": "videolibrary", "parameters":  ["library://video/inprogressshows.xml/"]
This helps a bunch as its one of my favorite views !

Thank you Nimest3r!!!

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Last chance to buy an Amulet Remote. DIRT CHEAP!!!

« on: October 18, 2015, 12:37:03 PM »

Yea for firesale and going out a busy, hand signing receipts i thought was classy/bittersweet. I feel bad, it is pretty awesome, wish I would have got one sooner (and paid more support)
But I agree from a business model they probably needed more consistent cash flow...

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / In Progress TV shows help?

« on: October 17, 2015, 11:10:45 PM »

Tried the parse the logs but still no luck.
Trying to mimmick the Browse 'recently added movies/tv...etc" commands but a Browse In Progress TV Shows which is also a default Kodi view. the logs aren't showing me much from kodi. Anyone w/ more luck/insight?

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01_KODI.log 892792 11:35:57 T:139836946114304   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Incoming request: {"params": {"sort": {"order": "descending", "method": "lastplayed"}, "filter": {"and": [{"operator": "lessthan", "field": "playcount", "value": "1"}, {"operator": "true", "field": "inprogress", "value": ""}]}, "properties": ["title", "studio", "mpaa", "file", "art"], "limits": {"end": 20}}, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "VideoLibrary.GetTVShows"}
01_KODI.log 639663 10:07:54 T:139836031702784   DEBUG: UPnP Translated id to 'library://video/inprogressshows.xml/'

The entry from favorites.xml shows

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    <favourite name="In progress TV shows" thumb="DefaultInProgressShows.png">ActivateWindow(10025,&quot;library://video/inprogressshows.xml/&quot;,return)</favourite>
however when I cloned one of the default 'browse to recently added tv' commands (where also the 'in progress tv shows' is in the same list on my kodi view)  I can't seem to get to work, it jumps to screen with all these default lists but doesn't 'enter into ' it
"inprogresstvshows"
"inprogressshows"
"inprogressshows.xml"
All just jump to that root list but not into the list/view.


Searching my system for the inprogressshows.xml I found these:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<node order="4" type="filter" visible="Library.HasContent(TVShows)">
  <label>626</label>
  <icon>DefaultInProgressShows.png</icon>
  <content>tvshows</content>
  <rule field="inprogress" operator="true" />
</node>
Camau:/usr/share/kodi/system/library/video # cat recentlyaddedepisodes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<node order="11" type="folder" visible="Library.HasContent(TVShows)">
  <label>20387</label>
  <icon>DefaultRecentlyAddedEpisodes.png</icon>
  <path>videodb://recentlyaddedepisodes/</path>
</node>
Does anyone know what this is?

  <path>videodb://recentlyaddedepisodes/</path>

what database is that?
I just searched my MySql database and i can't find 'recentlyaddedepisodes' in the MyVideos90 database?

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Amulet Remote / Re: Amulet Remote and VirtualBox

« on: October 17, 2015, 02:25:34 PM »

Will do nime5ter...eager to get my new amulet working
I dug up an old big laptop as I have limited windows capable machines at the moment but will give a go on that one. It too is win10 since I wanted to make sure I upgraded while I could.
Ill try reaching out to ajith as well.

@vulcanjedi -- you could try PMing ajith, who started this thread. He hasn't been around in a while, but he's super nice, super savvy, and has a fair bit of experience with this.

I'm not sure if he gets alerted to private messages at this point, but it doesn't hurt to try.

Also, have you tried testing the Amulet mic functions on a normal Windows machine to make sure there's nothing wrong with the remote?

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Amulet Remote / Re: Amulet Remote and VirtualBox

« on: October 16, 2015, 08:18:40 PM »

No the sound recorder doesn't work either. The link goes up/down and events are triggered. Haven't managed to get any successful aspect of voice capture from amulet ...yet.
USB filters is the mechanism VirtualBox uses to manage which USB ports/devices are pass thru from the Host to the Guest...so you can manage which USB devices you want to keep maintained on the Host system vs which device you may wish to pass thru to render on the Guest.
Will try not running AmuletUSB until sound input works first.

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Amulet Remote / Re: Amulet Remote and VirtualBox

« on: October 16, 2015, 07:02:56 PM »

Thanks friends.
I finally got the link to work but audio is still not truly passing through. I see the events triggering in the history, but I still think perhaps some driver issue? Before I got the USB redirect the Dongle showed up under the top in Device Viewer under Audio Inputs/Outputs...currently on the guest I only see it in Sound, video and game controllers?

UPDATE: after playing around i got this , still no audio, is it supposed to be like voxwav? What setting have you set for 'REMOTE' in the USB filter Any/Yes/No?
Attached screengrabs

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Amulet Remote / Re: Amulet Remote and VirtualBox

« on: October 15, 2015, 11:56:13 PM »

I finally got my first Amulet. I use VC in a Windows10 virtual box VM. I set the USB filter for the dongle. The IR part of the Amulet seems to already work w/ my existing MC remote. the RF dongle lights up blue when i tilt the Amulet. I loaded the AmuletWin10 exe from the VC extras. Is there a guide/walkthrough for the amulet / VC. The wiki points to the forum but did I miss it?
Is the Amulet software referenced herehttp://www.amuletdevices.com/pdf/Amulet_UserGuide.pdf still required?

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Last chance to buy an Amulet Remote. DIRT CHEAP!!!

« on: October 06, 2015, 12:22:21 PM »

Agreed, too bad to hear re the company. But the price is definitely firesale. I was always more interested in hands free alternatives but Im definitely going to help out clearing the stock. Thanks for the heads up.

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: errors when Gen XML for KODI

« on: September 05, 2015, 01:26:13 AM »

Im still not completely sure I'm clear on what you are (trying to) do. I migrated to remote MySql ages ago. If you are trying to incorporate a shared/network database for multiple Kodi instances I would HIGHLY encourage you to setup MYSQL, its easier to maintain and far better performing. The KODI wiki pages clearly show how to accomplish that.

 But I loaded the plugin and notice it seems to assume, the databases for a local instance. Are you sure the NTFS/Share permissions are correct on the share for the user running VC?
May want to try to move the databases to a different folder like c\temp\
That seems like an odd UNC path.
This is purely conjecture from the screengrabs but
it looks like admin share but there is no c$
unless you really created a share called 'users', and if so the folder is under the user folder for the 'kodi' user which I imagine is not an administrator, and likely not the user VC is running under,

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: Kodi 16.0/Vox Commando

« on: August 24, 2015, 04:42:50 PM »

Also perhaps going to the general stable Kodi build vs the pre release /unstable builds would be a good approach at least until your environment is hardened, albeit from the brief info below your issue seems non Kodi related at this part of the workflow.

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Feature Requests / Re: plex integration

« on: August 17, 2015, 11:20:45 AM »

Awesome, I am going to try this.  Is there any way we can get VC to send the movie to Chromecast?

Chromecast doesn't really have a plex client per se, but it does show up as a castable device so perhaps. Would think it would have to be listed in the plex device list.
A round about way which would be more successful is to have a different plex client ie: plex home theatre running somewhere that had the cast set to chromecast and setting VC to use that PHT instance as a proxy to chromecast. Unelegant but effective Id think.

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: Kodi OSD Notifications made a little easier

« on: June 26, 2015, 01:17:45 AM »

thanks PeglegTV, I'll have to give this a try, wouldnt mind if I could change the default behavior of KODI notifications to include the image vs calling this trigger on particular commands
I will mention that I believe some skins may not support this, as the other day I was playing with some of the other skins and my image didnt show up. I typically use "Transparency!"

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Integration Ideas / Re: apple watch integration with voxcommando

« on: June 01, 2015, 12:23:28 PM »

I'd be happy to try, I have a new iphone and an older iphone with the crappy broke button.
Still haven't managed to connect with sister to try her watch yet

I agree if this functionality was more akin to VoxWav on droid that'd be the best outcome and would think most would like the watch form factor for this.

If it helps Gary, you can spin up a virtualbox vm and free win10 tech preview to test with.