How do you use the kinect plugin to detecting occupancy? At the moment I have several zones set up but they always show as empty, even though all the Kinect VR controls work correctly. But even once I get them setup and showing the number of people in the room, how do I use that to trigger devices and events?
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you can use the kinect zone devices to trigger some events.
for example the event below will turn on a light as soon as at least one people is detected by the kinect.
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I think people are mostly using them for speech recognition. That being said, the real magic of the Kinect is it's ability to detect people and their motions. I am hoping that in future updates to the plugin the true potential of the Kinect is realized. SR is great for conversing (and HS isn't there yet) but in its current implementation it's still nothing more than remote control and no substitute for true automation. Still the SR with the Kinect is pretty rad.Originally posted by rpradeComment
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Thanks, that is what I was trying to do. The only problem now is that the occupancy zone devices always show "empty".
And about a minute after I wrote that last sentence I set up an event to speak a phrase whenever it detects anyone walk into the room. It worked, but the zone device still says "empty". Strange, but it seems to work.Comment
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as soon as the kinect stops detecting anyone the zone is set back to empty.
to better see if the kinect is seeing you, set the log level to trace, tick the developer mode checkbox, then restart the plugin In the console window you will see coordinates like the following as soon as the kinect detect at least one person:
Code:TRACE TrackedX=0.3129174 Y=0.09685367 Z=0.8483791 TRACE TrackedX=0.3323406 Y=0.09989004 Z=0.8427995 TRACE TrackedX=0.3434878 Y=0.09640806 Z=0.8390585 TRACE TrackedX=0.3474789 Y=0.09812954 Z=0.8309059 TRACE TrackedX=0.3835375 Y=0.09509598 Z=0.827082 TRACE TrackedX=0.3685666 Y=0.09433531 Z=0.8205385
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