Jon00 Homeseer Speak Utility

[jon00]

Homeseer 2 and Homeseer 3 versions available!

This utility enables you to do several things with speech messages that have already been spoken by Homeseer through any of its speaker clients. It has the following features:

» Repeat spoken messages with options
» Store the text spoken by individual speaker clients in parent/child virtual devices
» Store the text spoken by all speaker clients in parent/child virtual devices
» Trigger events/scripts if a change is detected in any client to update hardware (signs etc) or software
» Attempts to group speech as single message as originally spoken
» Automatically creates new virtual devices each time a new speaker client is connected
» Automatically waits until Homeseer stops speaking should it be run during this time

[TechHA]

Wow!

Another home run Jon! This is really gonna come in handy with my touchscreen setup. Having the ability to log the spoken phrases into a device and display that info on my touchscreens through out the house is something I've been wanting for some time now.

I run different instances of the speaker client now so it was a snap to setup one more. So now I can send just the announcements I want displayed to that instance but leave it out for the ones I don't need displayed.

Looking forward to having the time to play with this some more (2 days off for New Years ).

Thanks again for all you do!

[jon00]

Thanks...let me know how you get on. If there are no problems I will take it out of beta soon.

[jon00]

I've had quite a few downloads for this without a single comment. Can I assume everything is working for those of you using this?

I want to take it out of beta.

[rmasonjr]

Somehow, I missed this. I have been looking for a way to re-announce spoken messages for a while now. I'm going to try it out and see how it works, but it sounds like it will fit the bill nicely.

[zimmer62]

I installed this, seems to work just fine so far.

This script will solve the problem of "what did it just say?" I get that a lot because of watching a movie or something.

One thing I noticed is that it's just 1 virtual device per speaker client. This looks great in the homeseer webpages, but I'm not sure how I'm going to get that data over to mainlobby and have it displayed properly on my touchscreens. I haven't tried anything yet either so no big deal. Maybe what I really want to do is have the log file parsed and insert the last 10 lines (selectively excluding ones that are unimportant) over on mainlobby with virtual devices. (sorry for my brain leakage)

Again! another great script by Jon!

Thanks a ton!

[jon00]

Remember that you can use the Script SpeakTrigger1.txt or SpeakTrigger1.vb to pass the data from a speaker client to anything else that supports scripting.

[rmasonjr]

Working great here, Jon. No problems at all...

[zimmer62]

Thanks. I'm trying that now.

I'm trying to do just that, and it's weird. I remember the first time the ini file looked good after I ran it (meaning there was a bunch of stuff in it), and now it looks like it did when I first installed the script.

[Settings]
UseVirtualDevices=1
HN=50
HL=S
CheckClientUse = 1


[default:default]
IniListSize=10
ScriptName= 

So that's the entire ini file. The webpage shows the correct last spoken stuff. I'm unable to get it from the ini file, since it's not there. Any ideas as to what might be happening?

Thanks.

Joe

[zimmer62]

Nevermind that, It was there, it was just several pages of blank space down in notepad before I got to it.

Sorry, false alarm.

[tmcgowan]

Hello Jon,

When I set the number of entries stored in the virtual device to 5 (instead of 10), it shows the last five alright, but then goes on to show rows 6), 7), 8), 9) and 10). Even though there's no content for rows greater than 5. Is there someway to eliminate the unused lines? The reason I ask, is that I display this device in your Quick View page.

Best regards,

Todd

[jon00]

I will check this when I get back home from work but what happens if you set the ini file limit to 5?

[tmcgowan]

Jon,

Here's a screen image.

Thanks,

[jon00]

Hmmm...I'm not sure what is wrong. I've just tried it here and it is only displaying 5 values.

Can you make sure that both the following values in the ini for that speaker client are set to 5 i.e.

VDListSize=5
IniListSize=5

[tmcgowan]

Hmmm...I'm not sure what is wrong. I've just tried it here and it is only displaying 5 values.

Can you make sure that both the following values in the ini for that speaker client are set to 5 i.e.

VDListSize=5
IniListSize=5

Jon,

I hadn't changed the VDListSize parameter.

Thanks, it's working perfectly now.