Voice Activated Home Automation
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elvisimprsntr
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I think anyone in your target market and certainly anyone using SiriProxy knows how to set up a VPN.ChrisCicc said:Actually you can make SiriProxy work remotely with simple VPN. I do it all the time.
There is nothing simple about a VPN to "regular" users
ChrisCicc
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elvisimprsntr said:
Enthusiasts and some others? Yes. The rest of our target market? No. Our Kinect voice control is about as simple as it gets, all someone has to do is know how to install a program, and enter their credentials to their local install of CastleOS (which is picked on initial config). The rest is automatic (or optional). This is one of the major differentiating features of CastleOS.
elvisimprsntr said:
Done! It's available on github.com at https://github.com/mghan/siriproxy-m1
Mike
elvisimprsntr
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mghan said:
Nice work! Glad to see you left the garage door check in, but you might want to push an IP cam image to Siri. I figured out how to push images from authenticated IP cams in one of my other plugins.
Nice work guys! I started customizing the ISY plugins to suit my needs and realized that setting up new rules would be easier if the ISY REST API was abstracted a little so I don't have to clutter the plugin code with all the technical REST stuff. So I'm working on a library for the ISY-99i - something like Mike did for the M1. Hopefully others will find it useful when I'm finished.
elvisimprsntr
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I wanted to do a complete re-write of the ISY plug in over Xmas but was distracted with other priorities. Some of the plugins I wrote completely from scratch I think are a little better. At some point I want to make the ISY completely self aware.
ChrisCicc
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Hey Folks, here is our latest demo video. This video shows CastleOS and Kinect being used in a real-world scenario, in this case, a living room and entryway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksiJWthOxY0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksiJWthOxY0
elvisimprsntr
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elvisimprsntr said:
I finally got around to rewriting hoopty3's original ISY/Elk SiriProxy plugin completely from scratch to make it easier for others to use, code efficient, and more portable. It's not self aware yet, but the changes are one step closer to making that possible. Probably my best Ruby work to date, but I am still learning.
https://github.com/elvisimprsntr/siriproxy-isy99i
That and my Raspberry Pi SD card image and a $35 USD Raspberry Pi make HA voice control about as easy and inexpensive as anyone can make it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/siriproxyrpi/
Enjoy!
Elvis
elvisimprsntr
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Whole House IR voice control!
I updated my www.thinkflood.com redeye IP2R controller plugin for SiriProxy to make it auto discovery.
https://github.com/elvisimprsntr/siriproxy-redeye
What a pain it was testing the exception cases! Glad that is over with.
I updated my www.thinkflood.com redeye IP2R controller plugin for SiriProxy to make it auto discovery.
https://github.com/elvisimprsntr/siriproxy-redeye
What a pain it was testing the exception cases! Glad that is over with.
ChrisCicc
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Hi Folks, CastleOS' voice interface now supports English accents from Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Read more: www.CastleOS.com/Download.aspx
I've had the house on X10 for years. I once created a Nintendo DS program that could connect to my PC and let me control the lights with the DS touch screen. I got an Android tablet in December. I wondered if the voice recognition on it could control my lights. I found the mochad software. I installed it on a Raspberry Pi to work with a CM19a transceiver I had. I edited sample CGI files included with mochad. This gave me browser based control from the tablet. I installed a Siri clone called EVA. Eva has a bookmark feature that you can set to push a url to a browser. So I can say "Eva" "Office on" or "Eva" "Office off" which will send a url to the browser. It's more of a novelty but I can talk to the android tablet and control my lights.
damage
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our system has an IM interface on it like many others. the past 4 or 5 days, i've been playing around with sl4a ( http://goo.gl/D0Qym ) & python on my note ii using google's VR. from my phone, the text of the recognized speech is IM'd to our HA server. on the server, i have some scripting in place to do some basic natural language processing of the text (which was already in place with the IM interface) to try and extract the device and command. if it finds a valid device and command, it will perform the operation & IM back a confirmation of the action. if it can't figure it out, it will IM back a negative response. the script on my phone will read back the IM'd response via TTS. right now it's limited to turning on & off all the lights, appliances modules and relays.
this works really well. i take advantage of google's excellent VR. the IM backbone allows me to voice control anywhere i have a data connection (no futzing with vpn/ssh) and let's me do all the text processing, device filtering, etc on the HA server so i've got a lot of flexibility. i'm also looking at incorporating NLTK ( http://goo.gl/pJimR ) to allow even more flexibility on extracting commands and having normal conversational speech recognized. at some point, i'll post a video, but right now it's still a bit raw.
this works really well. i take advantage of google's excellent VR. the IM backbone allows me to voice control anywhere i have a data connection (no futzing with vpn/ssh) and let's me do all the text processing, device filtering, etc on the HA server so i've got a lot of flexibility. i'm also looking at incorporating NLTK ( http://goo.gl/pJimR ) to allow even more flexibility on extracting commands and having normal conversational speech recognized. at some point, i'll post a video, but right now it's still a bit raw.
It is worth looking on Youtube for a series of (about 9) short demos videos by kcchestnut (his website at http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/default.aspx?vDir=eva) titled "/eva 01 home automation" (link to the first chapter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_tzLQladk) where he has used EVA, PC, Android and (dont laugh) kareoke mics to generate the whole house automated for sound and lights. It is pretty cool and the line I am going to head down.
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