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Sonos / Wishlist for missing commands

« on: March 31, 2016, 04:46:53 AM »

Hi,

i've just started using your plugin and i am currently integrating it with Samsung SmartThings for TTS notifications which is working extremely well and is a well executed plugin.

I do have a wishlist for some commands specifically commands for receiving the status of the player/group

so the first is GetGroupVolume currently only the selected players volume is reported

Second is GetStatus i.e. playing/stopped state

third and most important is getGroupStatus to return if the currently selected player is in a group already. this would allow me to put logic around my automations.

I do have an idea of how to get this info back from the sonos devices, is the source for this plugin on Github or another public versioning repository so i can contribute? if not would these possible be working thier way onto the roadmap for the plugin?

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VoxCommando Basics and Core Features / Trying to run VoxCommando on Windows Server

« on: March 26, 2016, 01:01:35 PM »

the error says "Voxcommando has stopped working" before the program loads

I have .net 3.5.1 & 4.5.2 installed, the machine is a VM running Windows 2012 R2 hosted on Vsphere 5.5 host. the VM has the HDAudio sound device installed, however i want to use this headless with no local sound. but rather use this to trigger TTS over my sonos devices.

i do get two error events in the event log these are

Log Name:      Application
Source:        .NET Runtime
Date:          3/26/2016 3:42:35 PM
Event ID:      1026
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx
Description:
Application: VoxCommando.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.Exception
Stack:
   at eval_ᜇ.eval_ᜀ(System.String, System.String)
   at eval_ᜇ.eval_ᜀ(System.String, System.String)
   at VoxCommando.VoxOptions..ctor()
   at eval_g..ctor()
   at eval_ᜤ.ᜀ()

and

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          3/26/2016 3:42:35 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx
Description:
Faulting application name: VoxCommando.exe, version: 2.2.1.6, time stamp: 0x56ca3229
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.3.9600.17415, time stamp: 0x54504ade
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x00014598
Faulting process id: 0x1438
Faulting application start time: 0x01d187761a61b08f
Faulting application path: C:\VoxCommando\VoxCommando.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 5c2c0caf-f369-11e5-9455-0050569d6d58
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

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VoxCommando Basics and Core Features / High DPC latency with NDIS.sys when using VoxCommando

« on: November 18, 2015, 04:06:21 AM »

Hi,

I have been using VoxCommando for some time without issues with the program per se, however after the time of install and configuration i have also been having issues within media center with stutters in video and also lots of Weak signal errors within media center. I use DVBLink with mediacenter to manager the tuner pool and watching of Live TV.

I have spent a long time troubleshooting the issue and have come to learn the issue was being caused by extrememly hiogh DPC latency. I monitored this using LatencyMon available from http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

it then took me some time to realize after updating all drivers that it wasn't in fact driver related. I stumbled accross the solution when closing VoxCommando, instantly the DPC latency dropped down to normal levels (averaging 200) and all my issues within mediacenter stopped. but as soon as loading back up VoxCommando my DPC latency counters increased to between 6000 & 12000 and the issues started to occur again.

I have performed further troubleshooting steps including replacing the microphone source from onboard sound to USB Mic with no improvement in DPC latency. and even if Voxcommando is not listening, huge latency is introduced with ndis.sys.

so until something can be sorted i am going to have to refrain from using Voxcommando unless i set up a dedicated PC for the role, which is overkill.

as other people must be using Media Center, has anyone else experienced the same? or know i can resolve the issue?

regards

Fuzzy

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Integration Ideas / Samsung Smart TV Integration into VoxCommando

« on: February 11, 2015, 06:05:48 AM »

My ideal scenario here would be to use VoxCommando's API to recive the output form an app on the Samsung Smart TV.

e.g.
use the Samsung voice feature and create a smart TV app that sends the output of the voice command after a given keyword to VoxCommand via the API, this i imagine would be contrary to how most people would envisage using VoxCommando and would want VoxCommando to do the conversion from from voice. however samsungs system works very well IMHO and the little puck remote (Which i would continue to like using on my TV's) is already set up to mute the TV etc.. when activated.

I have taken a look at how hard it would be to program in Eclipse, as i am a Visual Studio guy, and i must admit i am a bit lost. however my thinking was that VoxWav may have been programmed with Eclipse? and if so porting to the Samsung TV range with Voice activation wouldn't be that difficult? again i am not sure but i do live in hope

Regards

Stuart Buchanan