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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Multiple display output mess

« on: September 03, 2016, 02:48:55 AM »

Hey guys,

There's something that's been bugging me and I can't figure out an efficient way to solve it.

I have 3 displays connected to my HTPC including my monitor, cinema TV and lounge TV.

I need to be able to switch to any one of them at a time with the appropriate resolutions selected in kodi.

monitor: 1920x1200 (DVI)
Cinema: 3840x2160 (HDMI)
Lounge: 1920x1080 (Display Port)

Windows only has the option to output display to "internal" or "external" displays, so I'm missing one output

One option I tried is to "extend" all the displays but that's very inconvenient as you have to go through kodi settings and set which Fullscreen # you want. Then you have to change the resolution for that display as it's usually the resolutions of what kodi was on last time which depending on your previous settings.

This whole problem would be fixed IF windows had more than simple "PC screen only" and Second screen only" when you press the win+p

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General Discussion / Re: Problem running Ivona with VC

« on: September 30, 2014, 09:34:57 AM »

Thanks James,

Yes I'm running x64, UAC is disabled and I've just tried as admin. Still same problem.

Anyhow I haven't tried a VC install. This is what I've done:
before formatting I copied the entire VC folder and now I'm just running it off the backup folder without installing it on the system and it's been running fine without apart from this hiccup.

I do have a "back up current configuration" but I don't know how I would restore it as there's no option for that
I also don't think the back up will be as good as it will not restore the .wav "learning" files that's taken time to get accurate.

Advice?

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General Discussion / Re: Problem running Ivona with VC

« on: September 30, 2014, 09:13:54 AM »

Sorry, yes latest of version 1 which is 1.1.9.1

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General Discussion / Re: Problem running Ivona with VC

« on: September 30, 2014, 09:02:23 AM »

I'm using VC 1, definitely tried reboot.

It's not the free voice, although the free used to work without a problem anyway. Even this same version paid voice used to work before the refresh.
There are no other programs I need this for so can't try it on anything but windows like I mentioned.

Using windows 8.1

Everything is the same, nothing has changed since before formatting

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General Discussion / Problem running Ivona with VC

« on: September 30, 2014, 01:27:55 AM »

Hey guys,

Just reformatted my pc and installed VC then Ivona voice
The voice is working fine within windows speech options but when I test it in VS 1 this message pops up. All other windows voices work fine



Thank you

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XML Exchange / Re: Google Now Commands

« on: August 04, 2014, 04:03:04 PM »

This could be helpful to you.

I've successfully implemented Google now (and search) and voxcommando through tasker and autovoice.

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MediaMonkey / MediaMonkey / Media Folders?

« on: June 06, 2014, 12:24:37 AM »

I'm having another roadblock.

How can I get VC to create a payload of the media folders in mediamonkey?

Play Artist isn't working for me for some reason, it only brings up like 2 songs when there are 30. I don't know why

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: Browse specific movie genre

« on: June 04, 2014, 01:02:35 AM »

It works great nime5ter!

Sorry I hadn't seen that comment by James, it definitely simplifies things.

Thank you so much for your help

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: Browse specific movie genre

« on: June 03, 2014, 02:46:29 PM »

Believe me if I'm not completely stuck I wouldn't post a thread.

You're right, I do have xbmcVideoGenres.xml in the XbmcPayloads folder, but it's empty for some reason.
I'm sure there are genres in my XBMC

Appreciate the help as always.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Browse specific movie genre

« on: June 03, 2014, 12:36:29 PM »

Hey guys,

I would like to be able to browse a specific movie genre on command. For example I feel like watching a horror movie "show horror movies"

Same thing would go for music hopefully "play some rock"

Thanks in advance

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XML Exchange / Re: Reuters World News

« on: May 21, 2014, 02:27:51 PM »

Aha, now I can see how it's working great under V2, I'll be upgrading soon 

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XML Exchange / Re: Reuters World News

« on: May 21, 2014, 01:13:14 PM »

That clears things up, I'm using V1   

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XML Exchange / Re: Reuters World News

« on: May 21, 2014, 12:49:25 PM »

Very cool indeed.
Unfortunately, it's also reading the whole feed link "slash slash feed dot blah blah"
I can see that the links are getting recorded in the feeds in the XML file so I guess they will be read as it's a part of it.
Am I doing something wrong?

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XML Exchange / Re: Some of my codes

« on: May 21, 2014, 12:37:45 PM »

You could try DisplaySwitch.exe from the command line if it's more convenient for you. http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=1125.msg9462#msg9462

That worked perfectly! It's much faster and not a hit and miss like keyboard emu.

I do have a few other questions I hope I can get some advice.

1- "Remind me to" (name dictation is not accurate). Can VC learn from windows, gmail, or outlook dictionary? That way it will detect what we have added to dictionary before for detection. Or is there another way we can input names and new words for use across VC?

2- If I run XBMC on PC the "pass-through output device" in XBMC changes obviously. What's really annoying is when I watch a movie on surround system next, I always have to go into settings and change it back to HDMI. Is there a direct XBMC command to change pass-through device?

3- I'm starting to use MediaMonkey now and I know to start a new instance of VC to open MM commands. I want to know if it would be an issue if I import MM commands to the same default command list I'm using for XBMC or I have to use 2 separate instances of VC?

4- What I get VC to speak something while I'm on pass-through mode the volume is WAY too high compared to movie volume (that's because the movie is in pass-through mode while VOX is on 2 channel only). Can we set the volume limit for VC when speaking?
EDIT: I found a solution for this, add <volume level="10"> at the beginning of the text box. For example (<volume level="10">Enjoy the show) 10 stands for 10% can obviously go up to 100%

Thanks in advance guys

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XML Exchange / Some of my codes

« on: May 17, 2014, 11:50:32 AM »

Hey guys, I've learnt a lot in the last week or so. Thanks for all your help!
I would like to share the codes that I or the great members on the forums have made/refined to suit my needs, maybe be of interest to some of you.

"It's showtime"
When I want to watch a movie, this will change the output to "PC screen only" for some reason it's not "second screen" on my PC. You can edit the key inputs to suit you. Speaking of which, is there any way we can just input the screen name instead of inputting keys to manually press? (check the script).
So this does the following:
1- Change video output to 2nd screen (HDMI)
2- Sets audio output to (HDMI)
3- Starts XBMC
4- "Enjoy the show"

Then of course reverse+exit XBMC when finished.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<command id="560" name="Android On" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
  <action>
    <cmdType>XJson.Raw</cmdType>
    <cmdString>player.setspeed&amp;&amp;"playerid":1,"speed":2</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>0</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>XJson.Raw</cmdType>
    <cmdString>player.setspeed&amp;&amp;"playerid":1,"speed":0</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>XJson.Raw</cmdType>
    <cmdString>Input.ExecuteAction&amp;&amp;"action":"pause"</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>0</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>VC.Pause</cmdType>
    <cmdString>200</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>XJson.SoftMute</cmdType>
    <cmdString>0</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>VC.Pause</cmdType>
    <cmdString>200</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <event>AV.Mic.On</event>
</command>

Then Obviously when you let go of the button on VoxWav it will Unmute and Resume.

"Mic Off"

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<command id="526" name="Android Off" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
  <action>
    <cmdType>XJson.Raw</cmdType>
    <cmdString>player.setspeed&amp;&amp;"playerid":1,"speed":0</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>VC.Pause</cmdType>
    <cmdString>200</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>0</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>XJson.Raw</cmdType>
    <cmdString>Input.ExecuteAction&amp;&amp;"action":"pause"</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>0</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>VC.Pause</cmdType>
    <cmdString>300</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>XJson.SoftUnMute</cmdType>
    <cmdString />
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <event>AV.Mic.Off</event>
</command>
"Run Pandora"
This obviously runs the Pandora add-on

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<command id="443" name="run Pandora" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
  <action>
    <cmdType>Launch.RawParam</cmdType>
    <cmdString>{path.pfx86}\XBMC\XBMC.exe</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>VC.Pause</cmdType>
    <cmdString>2000</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>XJson.Raw</cmdType>
    <cmdString>Addons.ExecuteAddon&amp;&amp;"addonid":"script.audio.pandora"</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <phrase>run Pandora</phrase>
</command>
"Now Playing"
In movie mode, if I go to home screen or anything out of the Now Playing, it's a nightmare trying to get back to the player window! (maybe I haven't figured it out yet). This is just a simple mouse click to click on the side to get me to that window.

Remember you might have to change the mouse coordinates depending on your viewing resolution  

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<command id="291" name="now playing" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
  <action>
    <cmdType>Mouse.MoveAbsolute</cmdType>
    <cmdString>2000,150</cmdString>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>Mouse.LeftClick</cmdType>
    <cmdString />
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <phrase>now playing</phrase>
</command>
That's all for now. Please feel free to suggest anyways to make these better. Especially the way it changes display output.

Cheers