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"Open air" and "whole home" microphones / Re: Best Mic for whole-room (Scientific article)
« on: October 25, 2017, 05:38:50 AM »
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"Open air" and "whole home" microphones / Re: Best Mic for whole-room (Scientific article)
« on: October 24, 2017, 06:57:53 PM »
Hi Kalle!
Perhaps I should try the respeaker one instead
.
For whole-house setups you could take a look at my other post from today: http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=2778.0 where I describe my new node-based setup...
Oskar
Perhaps I should try the respeaker one instead
.For whole-house setups you could take a look at my other post from today: http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=2778.0 where I describe my new node-based setup...
Oskar
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Integration Ideas / Whole-home using Eventghost
« on: October 24, 2017, 09:20:42 AM »
Hi again!
I have been prototyping a new system for a couple of months now, and it has prooven to work really well.
Voxcommando is running on my mainframe, as well as on some nodes (Intel compute-sticks). Each node communicates with the mainframe via EventGhost, and the other way around. Eventghost is able to trigger Voxcommando-events in other rooms as well as on the mainframe (For example, I could tell the node in my bedroom to tell whoever is in the kitchen to turn the stove on by sending an utp command to the kitchen-node and eventghost on that node triggering a VC.Speak event with the payload of the eventghost-message).
The microphones on the nodes are really bad, but as I described in this (http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=2777.0) post, I will be testing a couple of (hopefully) better microphones very soon.
This integration takes a bit more work than just running independent nodes, but I believe that this works a lot better as this method solves the issue of where the sound is coming from and where to send the response (if you were to stream audio to a mainframe) as well as the fact that it gives you to say "Turn on the lights" and it will just turn on the lights in the room that you are currently in (room-unique commands).
The system will, naturally, allow you to say "Turn on the lights in the hallway", and after it hears that the node in the hallway will receive a request to turn on the lights (if there is no node in that room then it will send the request to the mainframe, which is able to control the whole house).
Hope that I have inspired you as you always inspire me!
Oskar
I have been prototyping a new system for a couple of months now, and it has prooven to work really well.
Voxcommando is running on my mainframe, as well as on some nodes (Intel compute-sticks). Each node communicates with the mainframe via EventGhost, and the other way around. Eventghost is able to trigger Voxcommando-events in other rooms as well as on the mainframe (For example, I could tell the node in my bedroom to tell whoever is in the kitchen to turn the stove on by sending an utp command to the kitchen-node and eventghost on that node triggering a VC.Speak event with the payload of the eventghost-message).
The microphones on the nodes are really bad, but as I described in this (http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=2777.0) post, I will be testing a couple of (hopefully) better microphones very soon.
This integration takes a bit more work than just running independent nodes, but I believe that this works a lot better as this method solves the issue of where the sound is coming from and where to send the response (if you were to stream audio to a mainframe) as well as the fact that it gives you to say "Turn on the lights" and it will just turn on the lights in the room that you are currently in (room-unique commands).
The system will, naturally, allow you to say "Turn on the lights in the hallway", and after it hears that the node in the hallway will receive a request to turn on the lights (if there is no node in that room then it will send the request to the mainframe, which is able to control the whole house).
Hope that I have inspired you as you always inspire me!
Oskar
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"Open air" and "whole home" microphones / Best Mic for whole-room (Scientific article)
« on: October 24, 2017, 08:59:45 AM »
Hi all,
I was browsing for a new whole-home mic setup and came across this (https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-respeaker-conexant-microsemi-acuedge-matrix-creator-minidsp-950de8876fda) article. It really helped me, and I thought that it might help someone else here...
In my eyes the PS3 Eye was the winner, especially regarding the low price-point (I will post a review once I get it).
Hope this helps you in our endless quest for total automation (or world-domination
)
Oskar
EDIT: The PS3 Eye costs about 7USD on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0072I2240/?tag=stackoverfl08-20...
I was browsing for a new whole-home mic setup and came across this (https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-respeaker-conexant-microsemi-acuedge-matrix-creator-minidsp-950de8876fda) article. It really helped me, and I thought that it might help someone else here...
In my eyes the PS3 Eye was the winner, especially regarding the low price-point (I will post a review once I get it).
Hope this helps you in our endless quest for total automation (or world-domination
)Oskar
EDIT: The PS3 Eye costs about 7USD on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0072I2240/?tag=stackoverfl08-20...
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VoxWav Free and VoxWav Pro / Re: PROMOTION. VoxWav Pro 2.8.1 on sale for just $1 Canadian (0.75 US, 0.70 Euros)
« on: March 14, 2017, 04:54:39 AM »
Awesome!
You got a happy buyer here! Awesome app, as all the content you distribute...
Best Regards
Oskar
You got a happy buyer here! Awesome app, as all the content you distribute...
Best Regards
Oskar
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Integration Ideas / Re: Fire alarm
« on: December 14, 2016, 01:05:10 PM »
The video is here! I am sorry for the low quality, but I used my surveillance system for the recording... 
Better quality of the overlay:
I am sorry for the low quality, and missing sound on the second link...
This is my first video editing-project...
Best Regards
Oskar
Btw, the video from the "fire" contains nothing more than this one, you can't see inside the cabinet and I didn't get there before the recording stopped because of a fuse that blew before Vox shut off the power
Better quality of the overlay:
I am sorry for the low quality, and missing sound on the second link...
This is my first video editing-project...
Best Regards
Oskar
Btw, the video from the "fire" contains nothing more than this one, you can't see inside the cabinet and I didn't get there before the recording stopped because of a fuse that blew before Vox shut off the power
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Integration Ideas / Re: Fire alarm
« on: December 14, 2016, 08:52:51 AM »It is coming, I am having a bit of a busy day! I will have it uploaded in about 3-4 hrs...
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Integration Ideas / Fire alarm
« on: December 13, 2016, 06:51:20 PM »
Hello Forum!
I have since my last posts been quite busy with Vox and electronics... Today I thought that I would show off the work that I have done!
I have built a server cabinet (small repurposed IKEA cabinet) containing 4 servers and a sh**load of other network hardware). I have a mail and web server in one, a backup and media server, a firewall machine and a dedicated server for games. Networking-wise I have an access-point, a 16 port POE switch, an network-attached KVM-switch and a Philips HUE Bridge.
This very cabinet also contains a Wiz-Web web server (old, found on a yard sale
) which has an old smoke detector and a couple of temperature sensors on the inputs. When the smoke detector is tripped (there is smoke in the top of the cabinet) or the temperature is too high either outside or inside the cabinet (70 degrees Celsius or more) the server triggers an event in Voxcommando.
The event then starts my Ispy and starts recording, sounds an alarm as it turns on my speakers and starts flashing the ceiling light in red while the rest of the power except for the Vox computer and the speakers is shut off.
Believe it or not this system actually "saved" me once! I had just finished this system, and was still wiring the last temperature sensors which run off a 12 V power supply. I left my room for a little while, and then suddenly the wires must have moved, because one of them had made a dead-short to ground through the chassis of my network switch and started arching and melting the insulation on the thin wire. The smoke detector was tripped, and so the alarm shut off the power. There was no fire, and was probably not going to be one but it was nice to know that the system worked.
A video demo is coming in about 8 hours from me posting this because it is midnight for me right now.
I hope that you got some ideas on how to create a fire alarm using vox or that you were at least inspired in some other way!
Oskar
I have since my last posts been quite busy with Vox and electronics... Today I thought that I would show off the work that I have done!
I have built a server cabinet (small repurposed IKEA cabinet
) containing 4 servers and a sh**load of other network hardware). I have a mail and web server in one, a backup and media server, a firewall machine and a dedicated server for games. Networking-wise I have an access-point, a 16 port POE switch, an network-attached KVM-switch and a Philips HUE Bridge.This very cabinet also contains a Wiz-Web web server (old, found on a yard sale
) which has an old smoke detector and a couple of temperature sensors on the inputs. When the smoke detector is tripped (there is smoke in the top of the cabinet) or the temperature is too high either outside or inside the cabinet (70 degrees Celsius or more) the server triggers an event in Voxcommando. The event then starts my Ispy and starts recording, sounds an alarm as it turns on my speakers and starts flashing the ceiling light in red while the rest of the power except for the Vox computer and the speakers is shut off.
Believe it or not this system actually "saved" me once! I had just finished this system, and was still wiring the last temperature sensors which run off a 12 V power supply. I left my room for a little while, and then suddenly the wires must have moved, because one of them had made a dead-short to ground through the chassis of my network switch and started arching and melting the insulation on the thin wire. The smoke detector was tripped, and so the alarm shut off the power. There was no fire, and was probably not going to be one but it was nice to know that the system worked
.A video demo is coming in about 8 hours from me posting this because it is midnight for me right now.
I hope that you got some ideas on how to create a fire alarm using vox or that you were at least inspired in some other way!
Oskar
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Integration Ideas / Raspberry Pi Nodes (for whole-home)
« on: October 08, 2016, 02:54:08 AM »
Hello again!
I just came to think about using Voice Meeter's buit in "VBAN" function to make a whole-home system. The VBAN system can be used to stream audio from and to a PC. When you send sound it sends the ID of the station sending, so that VOX could know where to send the response. Perhaps you could just send a command to the station to use its own TTS, and run one instance of VOX for every station...
I found this quite interesting given all the issues with whole home mics, mixerboards and so further...
This would perhaps not solve the issues with people talking to eachother and not VOX, but if you use voice-commands for the Station (very basic) to know when to send audio or just the built-in prefixes in VOX...
Have fun and DO NOT USE "KISS" (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Oskar
I just came to think about using Voice Meeter's buit in "VBAN" function to make a whole-home system. The VBAN system can be used to stream audio from and to a PC. When you send sound it sends the ID of the station sending, so that VOX could know where to send the response. Perhaps you could just send a command to the station to use its own TTS, and run one instance of VOX for every station...
I found this quite interesting given all the issues with whole home mics, mixerboards and so further...
This would perhaps not solve the issues with people talking to eachother and not VOX, but if you use voice-commands for the Station (very basic) to know when to send audio or just the built-in prefixes in VOX...
Have fun and DO NOT USE "KISS" (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Oskar
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"Open air" and "whole home" microphones / Re: My implementation
« on: August 11, 2016, 05:27:17 PM »
How is it going?
Interested to find out more!!!
//
Oskar
Interested to find out more!!!
//
Oskar
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Python Scripting / Re: Help! My Vox isn't running a command except for via the green arrow in cmd edit!
« on: March 05, 2016, 07:57:52 AM »
Ok, I will try that in one hour. If the problem persists will the "support-time" still be on?
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Python Scripting / Re: Help! My Vox isn't running a command except for via the green arrow in cmd edit!
« on: March 05, 2016, 05:20:28 AM »
I can do it, but my parents won't let me do it over TeamViewer, can we please do it over Skype with screen-sharing?
15:30 my time is okay (9:30 am for you). I will PM you with my skype id, so that you can call me then.
Oskar
15:30 my time is okay (9:30 am for you). I will PM you with my skype id, so that you can call me then.
Oskar
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Python Scripting / Re: Help! My Vox isn't running a command except for via the green arrow in cmd edit!
« on: March 04, 2016, 06:55:53 PM »I think I can see the problem though.
You are using PY.ExecFile to load Arduino.py many, many times in your tree. It is in multiple commands and each of those can be triggered by multiple events.
You should only ever load this python script one time during the entire time that VC is open. Make sure this python code is only loaded and executed one single time in a command that is triggered by the VC.Loaded event and I think all your problems will go away.
Thanks James!
I will try that, but that is because VC doesn't generate a VC.Loaded event after hibernation, so that requires me to initialize the script multiple times (whenever it is needed) so that it is always loaded. Since it doesn't open the com port in the script, and if I try to initialize it two or more times it just says that it is already loaded.. Will it cause an issue?
I will have to check with my parents tomorrow, but if it's fine to do it (over Skype?) 15:00-16:00 is a good time for me.
Thanks for letting me know that you got all the files so that I could delete them from the post!
Oskar
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Python Scripting / Re: Help! My Vox isn't running a command except for via the green arrow in cmd edit!
« on: March 04, 2016, 06:26:37 PM »I'm sure I could help you if I could see everything that is actually happening but it is too difficult to really understand everything that you are doing, and in what order.
I also don't really understand what you are doing with hibernation or why. Why log out before hibernating? It seems to defeat the purpose. At that point you might as well just shut down the machine. Personally I don't know why anyone uses hibernation unless they have a laptop, but that is another matter.
If you would like to use TeamViewer to look at your problem together I would be happy to try.
I can probably make myself available to you tomorrow at some point. For today, I think it is too late.
I am sorry, I didn't mean to say that I logged out. What I meant to say was that I close the com before hibernating. Since I have an Arduino Uno it takes 30 seconds each time I re-open the serial port, so option B is out of the question. Option A I have tried, but if I don't close the port before hibernation I get an error with access denied to the COM-port. The second reason to why I have to close the port is that it won't work (access denied) at first after hibernation, but when I close it, and then open it it works.
Also, I just found out that what you said about admin-rights and hibernation was right. It was just a speculation from my side...
I would perhaps like to use teamviewer (I will see if I can tomorrow, my brother has a birthday party then). Whatever the outcome I thank you for the offer. If I can it can be anytime between 11-~17:00 Stockholm time, but if I can you can decide when (based upon your time zone).
By the way... Can we instead use skype screen-sharing if I can? I think that my parents won't allow me to use team-viewer with someone that the haven't met physically... And if I don't obey them they will take my computer away!
I can't believe that I haven't posted my xml yet! It will be included here, with the windows sceduler task to wake the computer, and the EventGhost side of things. I will also include the interface script for Arduino.
Oskar