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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Kinect 360

« on: October 01, 2016, 03:21:34 PM »

Sorry, never saw that post.
I dont see the fun in that at all. I have to say ok google all the time and it wont interact.
Vox is forever learning because you customize it to what you want and who you are. Google uses algorithms to "guess" what you interests are. Its not smarter if it always has to be in the cloud because once it disconnects from the internet, Its usless. I like so many have modems or other connection issues.

Take my smarthings hub. An amazing product and potential with so much problems because the company cant wait to roll out an update every few months for ''security reasons'' that has now caused my hub t disconnect and reconnect constantly due to a firmware issue. With eventghost and Vox. I can pretty much do almost anything and the only downside is the mic and lack of coding experience. Internet loss limits Vox to the WWW but not to a local network thatcan still do things around the house
James, I would take your and Vox anytime over the cloud.

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Kinect 360

« on: October 01, 2016, 09:11:24 AM »

Thank you for replying.
Think that is a pricey experiment just to have bad results.
I am currently trying different mics and just got a second hand  kinect.  Its exactly what I want in my living room. I hope it works as intended.
 Has anyone tried setting multi kinects in each room and running two or three instances of Vox?

My last resort will be to turn to Google Home http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11688376/google-home-speaker-announced-virtual-assistant-io-2016

I love their speech recognition and an api to use their mics would make vox a beast

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Kinect 360

« on: October 01, 2016, 06:25:36 AM »

@Hadood.
Can you please tell me about your current setup with a mic in each room. I can barely get a mic to sound right unless it's a headset and have been doing alot of research.
How is your setup going now.  Do you still get home accuracy. Omni mics are really a hit and miss.  I bought 3 brands and they all have trouble picking up my voice let alone get windows speech recognition to even start voice tutorial and mic calibration

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EventGhost / Re: Enable and disable groups in Event Ghost

« on: September 29, 2016, 05:26:15 AM »

Hi James. Thanks for replying to my question.

Yes it works but say once I switch to exclusive
Chrome when it was on exclusive kodi.
I check on event ghost that it's still on exclusive kodi.
Which means vox will work but remote won't.
I basically have cameras chrome and kodi macro and in each I Set to exclusive. With their own remote macro configured.
But when  I interchange between them . I see Eventghost only remains on kodi.
Will have to dig deeper.
Thank you again

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EventGhost / Enable and disable groups in Event Ghost

« on: September 28, 2016, 06:28:31 PM »

Hi guys. Hope someone can help.
Can anyone explain a method of disabling and enabling groups on event ghost like you can on  vox.

 I have tried using the enable exclusive, but it does a poor job of disabling others in the same macro.  Unless I have not been doing it right. The examples and web forums don't help either.

I want to use this in tandem with vox to disable programs with vox while EG disables remote commands based on what program is focused.  It works at the moment without the feature but it will cause problems in the long run as its limited to only a small  number of remote buttons .
Any help is much appreciated..

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Tutorials / Re: Scrape and How to use REGEX

« on: September 27, 2016, 07:24:11 PM »

Yes thank for taking the time to show and explain in detail.

I think the most intimidating aspect of regex is not the pattern findings but the digging from the site.  Especially if they are all over the place.  I struggle several times cause the divs and <a href are so long. I don't know where to start.

Appreciate all the help and support you guys have offered

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Tutorials / Re: Scrape and How to use REGEX

« on: September 26, 2016, 07:30:13 AM »

Wow it's a lot to take in

Guess I'll start practising.
Thank you for taking the time to help me.. this was exactly my issue with storing payloads xml then using them later. just have to see what works best.
Will try and take the most out of your " most flexible option" and learn why it's so flexible for future commands.

As for the XE exchange I use the app and wanted something I could see for verification as I am not used to the other sites. But you are right. Why make life harder.

You guys are awesome. Keep up the great work and thanks  for all your patience

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General Discussion / Re: New Here

« on: September 26, 2016, 07:08:46 AM »

Thank you for the info.. always good to keep up to date

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Other Plugins / Re: restoring hue lights

« on: September 25, 2016, 04:31:38 PM »

Hi did you ever manage to get the hue lights to restore it's state

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Tutorials / Re: Scrape and How to use REGEX

« on: September 25, 2016, 11:25:47 AM »

Thank you for getting back to me Nime5ter. Your feedback is always appreciated.
As for that regex I used and never worked. I Only had to purge cache and restart and then it did.

Please let me ask my main question as to not confuse anyone anymore.
 I will focus only on say a movie topic to be more concise. The problems i run into are the all same as even though i use and get the regex pattern, I tend to struggle but seem to get the info eventually but still fall into the same hole.

If i use regex for a local movie circuit and get what movies are playing.
I get the lists of movies playing from 1-10.

1-titanic
2-bad moms
3- ghostbusters({match3.1})
4....etc
but now i want info on movie 3 only.( what is the running time {Match3.2} what cinema its playing at {match 3.4}) etc..

A)
So how would VC know info on that specific movie if since the results.regex wont specefically point to {match3.2} or if its a longer list of movies {match 30.2}

I hope you can understand what im trying to achieve.
Same applies to the news feeds. Its essentially the same problem since i need to store some info or variabe to be able to get more info about that movie or news feed with out having to overpopulate the osd or tts with name of movies and the time running.

or as for the the news feeds. the headline and the description all together on the osd. Tried it... didnt look pretty.

I really hope i have pinpointed my issue.

I think I am asking you Nim5ster cause you did something similar with Reuters news. But in there is payloads and XML.

B) Just briefly, if its a complicated page like a busy HTML is it better to use RoboB or scrape.HTML
Like the XE exchange XML is insane

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Tutorials / Re: Scrape and How to use REGEX

« on: September 25, 2016, 04:33:13 AM »

Thank you so much for your help

the \| and  .*? I completely forgot about.although adding .*? didnt work

as for the tinkering i can believe you.
the bbc regex from
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml# is
 <title>.*?\!\[\w*\[(.*?)\]\]></
to get the title
but when i read it or have osd show it only said match.1.1.

not to mention IMDB and XE exchange is such a pain i still have not gotten it right

My main question is that
If i search for say a movies and want to ask it different returns like
i ask what movies are playing
osd shows the movies playing 1-10
now i ask it how long will .....(which is movie 3) playing running time(match3.4)
(Usually the next match shows the lenth of the movie).
How do i get VC to get the info without actually putting in the LCB builder movie ....(match3.4)
so as to not have to do it for all the movies.

This has to do with all regex as well.
So if i get headlines 1-10
then i want the description of 3 after.
I saw what nim5ter did but im trying to understand the work
THIS IS MY MAIN STRUGGLE AS WELL
 

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Tutorials / Re: Scrape and How to use REGEX

« on: September 25, 2016, 01:50:28 AM »

 Hahaha yes of coarse.

Please i dont want handouts only explanations as i am still new but getting far quite fast.
I solved the first solution of
<title>NEWS 24 | New story uncovered </title>
and getting rid of the first title by using regex
      <title>.*?\s(.*?)</title>
this worked with the exception that I am still getting the | before the headline. so it wont read the headline

My other issue is if i want a headline and a description which is normally the next match.
how do i get both. Do they need a special payload, especially if say i were to use this to scrape movie info that is out on circuit.

so say headline is <title>...</
description is <desc>....</
or
 name of movie <title>....</

length of that movie <running time>...</

Last thing is that James uses {match.1} etc
but in the forums i see a lot of them are actually more specific
{i}. {Match.{i}.1}.
what would i change to make it match 3.2 or 4.2.
This creates an issue in that if i want info on a specific headline or movie, e.g i have enter match 42.1 in the logical command builder(where movie ...is match 42.1). I cannot simply ask info about any movie or headline and get that info
This is where my confusion lies.


I know this would help others as well. Please Guys
Thank you in advance

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Tutorials / Re: Scrape and How to use REGEX

« on: September 24, 2016, 05:56:48 PM »

Yes please.
been wrecking my brain trying to understand why they are not working.
I even tried your regex
Is there a certain pattern i must follow like creat an XML to hold the news in.
and can scrape only get from certain FEEDS

http://feeds.news24.com/articles/news24/TopStories/rss
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml#
These are the ones in question

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Tutorials / Scrape and How to use REGEX

« on: September 24, 2016, 05:00:14 PM »

I have a question regarding the reg ex.
SO i scraped feeds from my local news but when i do that i will get
<title>NEWS 24 | New story uncovered </title>
<title>NEWS 24 | New car uncovered </title>
when i use regex helper. its definitely the XML as they are all like this. so the problem is that headlines will read back
match 1 news 24
match 2 news 24 etc.

Its the same with BBC feeds
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml#

I get    <title><![CDATA[Junior doctors call off five-day strikes over contracts]]></title>.
Regex then gives me error

Question
A) how do i use regex to get to get the second part of the title
B) how do i get the description that is in the XML. Regex shows no match found when i copy and paste <description>...</description> in the Regex helper.

saw the videos but no info on omitting certain strings

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Non-Arduino home-made gadgetry / Re: Smartthings

« on: September 24, 2016, 04:40:44 PM »

THAT REALLY HELPED
 
Sorry to hear about the tooth. This info and video is truly something that i know will help me and others a great deal. when ever you can would be much appreciated.