Re: [misterhouse-users] Version 2.47 posted on 03/24/2001

[Tim D. <ti...@gr...>]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Bruce & Laurie Winter wrote:

> Version 2.47 was just uploaded to:

> - Tim Doyle added a VOICE option to format=A mht tables.

For those of you who may want to use this new feature, here's what you
need to do.

Suppose you have the following item in your MHT file:

X10I,   D4,     Front_Porch_Lights,     Lights|Downstairs|Front_Porch

If you want to create a voice command to control this item, simply add a
line similar to the following to your MHT file:

VOICE,          Front_Porch_Lights,     Front Porch Lights

and if you want to similarly control groups, you can do it in the same
manner:

VOICE,          Lights,                 Lights
VOICE,          Front_Porch,            Front Porch

The first column is simply the VOICE command indicating that this entry
will create a voice command. The second column must match the name of a
device or group defined elsewhere in the file. This is the device that
this voice command will be linked with. These must match exactly, or an
error will be generated at startup. The third and final column holds the
phrase to be used to control the device. It does not need to match the
device name.

The following code will be automatically created for the
Front_Porch_Lights voice command entry as listed above:

my $v_Front_Porch_Lights_state;
$v_Front_Porch_Lights = new Voice_Cmd("Front Porch Lights [ON,OFF]");
if ($v_Front_Porch_Lights_state = said $v_Front_Porch_Lights) {
  set $Front_Porch_Lights $v_Front_Porch_Lights_state;
  speak "Turning Front Porch Lights $v_Front_Porch_Lights_state";
}

Note that "[ON,OFF]" was added to the end of the phrase. This will only be
added if there is no "[" character found in the phrase. You could do this
instead:

VOICE,          Front_Porch_Lights,     Front Porch Lights [ON,OFF,OTHER COMMAND]


Please let me know if you have any problems, questions, or suggestions for
this feature.

Tim Doyle