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BEAM IR/RF Wifi transceiver / Re: BEAM IR/RF Wifi transceiver

« on: January 25, 2021, 06:50:44 PM »

Hey gents, its not pressing/urgent so I don't mean to be a burden or anything. Didn't know if remotely (no pun intended) available at all so anymore so took a flyer and asked.
I don't believe I have any RF devices  so I technically only 'need' an IR one.
I just finally got into some DIY sensors and finally after moving and getting own place.
I have some nodemcu and generic D1 minis (the USB port seems flipped from the link you sent.
The labelling matches the left image on your link but on mine the labeling matches both sides of the board while the link the labelling differs per board side.


I live in the Midwest US.

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BEAM IR/RF Wifi transceiver / Re: BEAM IR/RF Wifi transceiver

« on: January 25, 2021, 11:54:31 AM »

I have tried to get into tinkering a bit more and doing some DIY sensors ...etc
My soldering skills certainly lack a lot to be desired....but I believe I could.

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BEAM IR/RF Wifi transceiver / Re: BEAM IR/RF Wifi transceiver

« on: January 25, 2021, 01:47:13 AM »

Id be interested in an IR beam if still available.

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Integration Ideas / Re: Google Home / assistant and Voxcommando!

« on: March 03, 2019, 01:36:38 AM »

Thanks PegLeg this is cool. Works pretty well.
Too bad Alexa doesnt support this approach.

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: repository.vc.zip

« on: February 09, 2019, 12:08:36 AM »

Ah thanks I did look int there but must have moved/transferred it before.
I got it installed on my LibreElec instance but can't get any of the smartlist stuff working :/
I pasted my log on pastebin in chance someone had insights
https://pastebin.com/fFFyan2w

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / repository.vc.zip

« on: February 07, 2019, 09:44:31 PM »

Where is the official place to get this? repository.vc.zip
I had one saved, I replace my kodi instance and just realized I never reinstalled this.
The backup i have is a ZIP file that is  197kb and I can install from ZIP
When installing the addon from Kodi it lists Author Jitterjames, Version 1.0.0 in the Repo info pane
but when i try to install from repo it says "Could not connect to repo"?
I have unknown sources checked...etc

Im running RPI 3B+ LibreElec Kodi 17.6. Really love to get my smart lists back.

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Feature Requests / Re: plex integration

« on: May 01, 2018, 05:53:23 PM »

I do think the Plex momentum is here to stay for a while. So it could help bring more (registered) user$

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WAY Off Topic / Re: DIY magnetic Tablet Wall Mount

« on: April 29, 2018, 11:18:45 PM »

Thanks for sharing I had a similar idea and desire to do something similar when I get my own place and have no experience or knowledge so this will help.

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General Discussion / Discord

« on: April 26, 2018, 02:54:33 PM »

Recently discovered Discord.  I agree w/ other user here I dont think VC gets enough proper play as a legit Home Automation tool.  I just recently got into HomeAssistant and some other tools and after going thru reddits and forums and githubs, I discovered a Hass Discord Channel that is pretty lively.  Any thoughts migrating VC to Discord platform?

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Feature Requests / Re: plex integration

« on: April 25, 2018, 08:57:26 AM »

I don't know what TLDR means in this context.  What was too long, and who didn't read it?  Yes I had to google "TLDR" because I had no idea what that meant to begin with.

TLDR; I was concerned maybe my response was too verbose.

I don't know what you mean by "engage those clients first".  Do you mean there is no way to launch those apps on external devices using a voice command?
  - I'm not sure what this means.

What I mean by this is when people use Kodi, typically its always on, always ready to listen.  This is not always the case with every Plex client. Those clients have other apps like Netflix and stuff so if the Plex app is not up, nothing would work.  Chromecast as well.

What I was saying is I've never seen anything that showed custom views in Plex. Maybe using the SEARCH function.  But VC could make those special views via the plugin like Unwatched eps of Show ABC.   

Thanks for your feedback.

I don't know what TLDR means in this context.  What was too long, and who didn't read it?  Yes I had to google "TLDR" because I had no idea what that meant to begin with.

I was hoping that people would let me know how and if they personally would be interested in a Plex plugin and so far what I'm sensing is that almost nobody is interested.  Certainly not enough to make it worth sinking another 80 hours or more of my time into hacking an undocumented API.

Maybe it's just that anyone who has decided to stick with VoxCommando has already given up on Plex, and anyone who stuck with Plex gave up on VC?

Too bad because I was actually starting to make some progress with Plex (already spent about 20 hours on it) but it seems like a wasted effort.  The API certainly seems to be very "flooby".  Even using only official clients they seem to randomly disappear from the list of players and different things seem to work on different clients.  Even PMP reacts differently to API control depending on whether it is in TV or Desktop modes.  Whacky.

My question of what type of media players people are using, assumes of course that people are already using or expecting to use VoxCommando.  So we already know this person has a Windows PC running so I figured there would be a relatively high number of people using PlexMediaPlayer as a client on the same HTPC they are running VC on.

I don't know what you mean by "engage those clients first".  Do you mean there is no way to launch those apps on external devices using a voice command?
  - I'm not sure what this means.

I would not expect to be able to control content that does not exist on the local server.

If I made a plugin it would hopefully be able to control playback, and volume, launch and or search/navigate content for clients on the local area network accessing content from a local server.  Even if we could do more I don't really see what the point would be in terms of voice control.

 - I'm not sure what this has to do with VC.  I certainly was not trying to start a conversation about whether Plex is better than Kodi. I also prefer Kodi (and MediaMonkey for music) and this is what I continue to use personally.  But that is not really important in this context.  If people want to use Plex that's fine.  I was just hoping to see if there was any demand for a plugin.

Yeah, we tried to test the Plex skill for Alexa.  After a few laughs we uninstalled it because we could not get anything to remotely work as expected.  For example asking for a movie to play resulted in music playing instead and the audio came out of the little tinny echo dot speaker instead of playing on our PMP client etc.

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Feature Requests / Re: plex integration

« on: April 24, 2018, 11:00:18 AM »

TLDR; Yes?

I think most people in the living room likely use FireTV, Chromecast, xbox1/ps4.  I think Plex Media Player for windows would be very low utilization.  There is also the 'web client' that is bundled with every instance of the PMS install as its also the admin GUI.


Long response;

Personally I still am very hardcore a kodi fan for the living room experience.  That being said, it is far easier, cheaper and simpler to spin up plex for those that want it to proliferate throughout their whole house...etc.

I think it would be great but I'm not a dev.  I also think its going to be not fun as while markedly improved I think the documentation is still severely lacking and between the secure the connections I know other apps have issues connecting sometimes like the homeassistant plugin doesn't work. But again many other apps do support some integration with Plex.
I'm sure there are a lot of Chromecast and FireTV users. The great part about plex is the ubiquity of the client, chromecast and any of the other clients (or the plex app) that aren't on all the time would be a little more annoying as you'd need VC to engage those clients first if they aren't always on like a kodi instance is likely to be.  And not thinking you could remotely cast something that I've been aware of. But users could simply instantiate plex client first before expecting to use VC.
Also not sure how supportable it is for those users that have shared libraries, and if you could access any of those at all via their account...like you may have suggested only for those hosting their own PMS.

Also not sure how many people use the Home feature but that would add more complexity if supported.
I think none of the clients really support the extensibility of kodi clients. so making specials views wouldn't be possible....possibly unneeded as many clients do have the 'recently added' queues...etc.  Also Plex does do a superior job of monitoring the library than kodi so those functions too are kinda unnecessary.

Plex lacks the channels and youtube and the addons that some people really take to on kodi.

However Plex is faster to spin up, and configure and maintain for novices. So I think this want will only grow over time.
All that being said I still think the the pure function of being able to play whatever media would be nice and likely the #1 people do w/ Kodi&VC.  Play 'big buck bunny', play the next ep of blah blah or Symphony #9...etc would be nice but aside from that I'm not sure what other actions I can envision for Plex via VC.  Plex released a skill on Alexa but its not private as it must proxy thru amazon servers so this would be far more reliable, better performing and private.

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: Kodi MySql

« on: March 04, 2018, 01:54:11 AM »

Thanks Team VC;

I updated with new install of VC.  I see the updated plugin w/ the port now and no longer getting errors loading it nor generating the payloads.
The MOVIES payload only loads about 10% of my library though even though when I query directly in MYSQL the exact query select strpath|strfilename,c00 from movie_view
brings back a lot more records. MovieIDs payload shows what seems to be the correct amount
I fixed this for me by updating the query to:
select concat( strpath,strfilename),c00 from movie_view

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: Kodi MySql

« on: March 03, 2018, 12:37:45 PM »

Thanks James!
I DL'd the dll and unblocked it but I get a load plugin error after VC loads.
Opening the plugin doesn't have the save options/save generate the last one did but that could be due to failed loading
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   VoxLog created / UAC test passed.
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   185   OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   186   Build: 9200
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   186   .Net version: 4.0.30319.42000
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   186   ready to launch program
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   186   safetorun is true
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   187   creating main form
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   415   Main thread loaded
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   416   Creating map editor
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   708   creating ResultsVars
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   711   passing maps to ResultsVars
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   711   Main thread loaded
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   711   Loading logging preference
3/3/2018 10:31:08 AM   712   Setting current directory
3/3/2018 10:31:11 AM   716   options: loading options
3/3/2018 10:31:11 AM   841   options: verifying speech engine culture language
3/3/2018 10:31:11 AM   841   SRE verify engine available: en-US |
3/3/2018 10:31:12 AM   543   launching application
3/3/2018 10:31:13 AM   249   Starting VoxCommando, version: 2.2.2.1

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: Kodi MySql

« on: March 02, 2018, 11:49:25 PM »

I did try ip:port but didnt seem to work either. I also manually updated to the current DB version of my kodi instance (MyVideos107)
I had a local instance of mysql install and migrated a lot of my stuff into Docker containers so moved the port.  Finally updated my Kodi instance after my thin client had a HW failure or corrupted upgrade from OpenElec
I know I haven't updated my VC in awhile and havent upgraded yet, but I dont think the SQL plugin has changed.

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Kodi MySql

« on: March 02, 2018, 07:20:50 PM »

Does VC hard code look only for port 3306 for MySql db connections for XBMC/Kodi? 
I am running mysql via docker container so the published port is different 'outside' the container