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Tasker + VC / Re: Using Tasker with VoxCommando

« on: February 02, 2015, 07:03:31 PM »

dont think it does use a payload but i also tried it without as it says in wiki but didnt work, i'll have a look at vc.tellvox though im starting to think this might be over my head, im new to tasker and I never really did fully get my head round vox even when I was using it before, not used it in over a year now so what i learned i've forgot.

thanks for the help

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Tasker + VC / Re: Using Tasker with VoxCommando

« on: February 02, 2015, 05:11:41 PM »

Ok i got tasker communicating with vox and the sms example from the wiki works but im at a loss as to what the payload should be for other commands

Just trying something simple like browse tvshows but nothing ive tried works, shows up in orange in the history as an event triggered followed by whatever i've tried typing in the path.

/api/vc.triggerevent&&BrowseTVShows&&optionalpayload

if someone could advise what i should replace optional payload with that would be great.

Thanks

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Tasker + VC / Re: Using Tasker with VoxCommando

« on: January 30, 2015, 02:26:19 PM »

thanks, have managed to do what i wanted pretty much, not sure its the best way of going about it but am very new to tasker and autovoice so might be able to come up with a better solution.
so far im using autovoice integration with google now, set tasker to launch voxwav on "ok google, mediaportal" command then have it emulate a button push via co ordinates to activate vox recording.

not exactly what id like but getting there.

Ideally id like to eliminate voxwav and have tasker send commands directly to voxcommando

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Tasker + VC / Re: Using Tasker with VoxCommando

« on: January 29, 2015, 01:25:24 PM »

I have vox wav installed but it causes conflictions with microphone access with other apps I use, I use openmic+ for google now and if using voxwav it needs to have the mic always listening, of course both apps cannot have the mic always on. So im looking to be able to just use google now alone.

I have seen guides on how to use google now to trigger tasker commands using various apps, though it maybe a long winded way of doing things but it would allow only one app using the mic.

Just curious to know if it were possible before I delve into for hours only to find out it can't be done.

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Tasker + VC / Re: Using Tasker with VoxCommando

« on: January 29, 2015, 12:53:37 PM »

is it possible to have tasker send basic media browse and control to vox? looking into a way of using google nows 'ok google' to send commands to control xbmc/mediaportal

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Amulet Remote / Re: Amount of ram?

« on: February 13, 2014, 11:07:35 PM »

This has now become irrelevant anyway as i've realised any manually learned codes are forgotten each time the battery goes flat 

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Amulet Remote / Re: Amount of ram?

« on: February 13, 2014, 06:56:01 PM »

I don't know much about this.  I find that the Amulet is not so great for learning IR codes.  This has been stated more than once on this forum.

I recommend that you try to post on the Amulet forum.  I know they are not as responsive as we are here but it is worth a shot.

I am curious though.  What exactly do you mean by ?

My Amulet has never "told" me anything, other than showing me different colours on the Amulet logo light.

not ram as such but amount of memory, it flashes amber when trying to learn new codes if its full up, it actually works really well with my panasonic tv remote but i've only managed to get half way through all the buttons and memory is full.

Just seems a bit odd that you can have 4 different maps on the colour buttons but only about 13 codes learned in total, would be like 3 learnt codes per map.

I was going to post up on their forum just to suggest more memory in future versions of the remote might be a good idea but their site and forum is painfully slow resulting in 'bad gateway' and a non loaded page 8/10 times so didnt bother

thought id just post here as i know there are a few amulet uses, kind of hoping someone might pop up and say they have learned a lot more codes on theirs and id been doing something wrong.

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Amulet Remote / Amount of ram?

« on: February 13, 2014, 04:38:11 PM »

Anyone know how much ram this remote has or how many buttons you should be able to learn?

Just been adding learn commands but it's telling me the ram is full after just doing 13 buttons from my TV remote. According to the guide you can do advanced learning with 4 separate maps on the 4 colour buttons, seems a bit pointless having 4 individual maps if you can't even program each button once each because there is not enough ram.

Churs

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MediaPortal / EVE "Enhanced Visual homecontrol & Entertainment"

« on: June 13, 2013, 09:45:37 PM »

Not been around these parts for a good long while now but I thought i'd come back and post up this new project for Mediaportal.

Thought it might be of interest to the users here. Have to say it looks very impressive.

Uses Mediaportal (of course)
Wifi remote
mpextended
and
Commandfusion iViewer for home automation

James, you should offer your services and some form of licensing to include vox   would be awesome all rounder then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6k4IUUwu0
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/picture-update-11-06-2012-eve-ipad-mediaportal-home-automation-control.102711/
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/preview-eve-ipad-mediaportal-home-automation-control.113471/

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General Discussion / Re: 2-year anniversary of the VC-Forum

« on: July 04, 2012, 09:47:39 AM »

Good going, well done.

So how many Vox users are there now?

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Amulet Remote / Re: XBMC xml for Amulet

« on: June 27, 2012, 12:15:31 AM »

Win 7 has a feature when you are using HDMI connection that adjusts the screen resolution to a smaller size when it detects no monitor connected or in htpc when you turn the tv off.

I think this is so if you unplug a hi res screen then plug it into a smaller monitor you will see a picture. unfortunately it also does it when you put the computer to sleep which is what most do with a htpc, it does restore the resolution to original when it detects your monitor again but some programs, mediaportal included do not follow the resolution back and remain as a 680 or so res window in the corner of the screen, running mp in fullscreen mode there is no way to maximise it again without restarting it.

There is a massive thread on the forum with 100's posts discussing it, whether its a bug or feature of windows and if it is or isn't an issue of mp.

personally it sounds like an intended win7 feature to me and MP team need to implement some sort of work around and many agree but some mp devs are saying it's a windows problem. Also many pointing out it doesn't happen with XBMC

been numerous work arounds posted which seem to have worked for some but not others, me include. think it might depend on graphics drivers or something.

hopefully MP 2 will have sorted it since it is only going to support Win7 but I tried the Alpha 2  a couple  of weeks ago and I think it's a long way off release. Even after it's full release I can't see it being useable until the popular plugins are made for it.

So that was a needlessly long explanation of a very uninteresting reason why I'm revisiting vista lol.

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Amulet Remote / Re: XBMC xml for Amulet

« on: June 26, 2012, 02:56:08 PM »

Right, loaded in your attached xml and none of the buttons work at all, had another go and doing it from scratch will no luck, still crashing all the time and not even recognising my remote half the time now, knows i've pushed a button but it doesn't seem to know which one, getting 'MCEremote unknown'

Time to throw in the towel, HTPC with no remote is not much use.

I really appreciate the help and time you've given up to help me with this but I think we have both spent to much time on this now.

Decided to go back to Mediaportal for various reasons, all the way through setting up and configuring xbmc I've been having to 'make do' with numerous things that XBMC just can't do or does badly. Mediaportal is just much better suited for my needs and the media content i have.

You can fully configure remote buttons in MP like I've been trying to do with EG with no 3rd party software required which is clearly a big bonus for me. I know that the problem with event ghost is me not knowing how to use it but the crashes arent helping me learn it.

Wrote the above because I hope you understand my reasonings for going back to MP and I'm hoping you wont be pissed for the time you spent helping me only for me to give up.

I will miss the great skins, sleek and smooth GUI and the added vox support but the negatives of XBMC out weigh the positives for me.

Unfortunately I'd does mean going back to windows vista from 7 again though

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Amulet Remote / Re: XBMC xml for Amulet

« on: June 22, 2012, 03:47:06 PM »

Cheers, will have a look in a few days when im off work again, using keyboard for now, Didnt know there was example macros in it, was just following the xbmc wiki. as far as the crashing goes, it is pretty frequent but it only does it when im doing something within eg, if its just left to run in background it seems fine, once i add all the macros i want it should be fine. will just have to save it every few i add.

I did see the thread but i think it was like 100 or more pages long read the first few.

Cheers for your time, know your busy.

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Amulet Remote / Re: XBMC xml for Amulet

« on: June 21, 2012, 03:59:13 PM »

Uninstalled and started again, still crashing all the time though but i was able to quickly map the media control buttons.

stop
pause
skip forward
skip back

play
fast forward
rewind

last 3 are the ones that have keyboard emulation and don't work properly, top 4 are fine.

xml can be seen here

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71004472/test.xml

from the  event ghost wiki there is this

"By default, both drivers are installed and active, which can cause some confusion - the most common problem is that buttons like <Enter> trigger two responses - once from the HID simulated keyboard, and once from something like EventGhost accessing the MCE Driver."

Which seems to be what I'm getting.

and then this

"At it's simplest, you can use a MCE Remote by simply:

Installing the drivers as the manufacturer intended.
Adding the MCE Plugin in EventGhost, and tick the Disable HID... box. Reboot for it to take effect.
Using this technique, the HID simulated keystrokes are disabled, which typically makes things a lot easier as it stops double-ups etc"

However there is no option to disable HID when using the win7 MCE plugin.

Thanks for looking.

Edit

think the xml is going to look perfectly normal to you, if i execute the commands from within event ghost it works as it should, pretty sure its the double up of drivers, just need to try and disable the hid for the remote, unfortunately device manager has about 20 or more hid devices listed with no specifics as to what is what.

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Amulet Remote / Re: XBMC xml for Amulet

« on: June 21, 2012, 02:53:28 PM »

Think i might just give up, event ghost wiki is well out of date as well, all info is mostly xp based and doesn't really mention win7, mentions something about double commands caused by HID drivers as well as MCE drivers, only get the option to turn off hid drivers when you select the MCE plugin not for vista/7 then it doesn't recognise  any remote button pushes at all.