alanchow Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 How do you control/select which rooms it will play in? Can you create multiple "web announcements" that play in different rooms and choose which one you're recording?You can create multiple copies of the driver if you require different room combinations though it's probably easiest to use as a broadcast to all rooms.Try it out using the built in trial licence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaltrader Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Anyway to upgrade my recluse version to this without a full repurchase? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 No. They aren't the second driver Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 Anyway to upgrade my recluse version to this without a full repurchase?Sorry. We are not affiliated to recluse av. recluse av are competitors to chowmain who currently maintain and sell a competing product (text to speech driver). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neildilgee Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 So if I understand this correctly, the driver which I bought from this thread cannot be updated to the play online command which is an update to the original driver on this tread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted April 5, 2015 Author Share Posted April 5, 2015 So if I understand this correctly, the driver which I bought from this thread cannot be updated to the play online command which is an update to the original driver on this tread?The chowmain advanced announcements driver (which is linked in this thread was available for purchase from extra vegetables and now Houselogix) has free updates.The confusion is with a competitors (recluse av)'s text to speech driver which offers similar functionality though not as feauture rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neildilgee Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Thank you for clearing it up Alan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Alan - my audio distribution is kind of "complex" at least in my head. My bedroom, office and bonus room have a Play 1 or Play 3 Sonos speaker. My living room has its own Sonos connect directly into a local AVR. My dining room, kitchen and outdoor space have speakers that are ran into a C4 amp, which is hooked into the C4 matrix and has its own Sonos connect. So its all sonos, some off a connect, some off a connect via a matrix and some just Sonos Hardware. Any limitations on where I can send these announcements? My Bedroom has a Play 1, could I get a morning announcement read off the Play 1? If I am not mistaken, I have audio outs on the HC 800 going into either (or both) the audio Matrix and the Sonos connect that is near the Audio Matrix. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4wiz Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Any way around the playback limitation yet?[/quoteNope. I've requested that they extend announcements from 15 seconds to a minute. Not sure if it'll be implemented or not.any updates on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Alan - my audio distribution is kind of "complex" at least in my head. My bedroom, office and bonus room have a Play 1 or Play 3 Sonos speaker. My living room has its own Sonos connect directly into a local AVR. My dining room, kitchen and outdoor space have speakers that are ran into a C4 amp, which is hooked into the C4 matrix and has its own Sonos connect. So its all sonos, some off a connect, some off a connect via a matrix and some just Sonos Hardware. Any limitations on where I can send these announcements? My Bedroom has a Play 1, could I get a morning announcement read off the Play 1? If I am not mistaken, I have audio outs on the HC 800 going into either (or both) the audio Matrix and the Sonos connect that is near the Audio Matrix. Thanks. Extra Vegetables actually has an example in their documentation on how to utilise our Advanced Announcements in their documentation so yes you can use it with Sonos. You do not need audio outputs going into sonos from Control4 as Sonos will read the wav file directly. Definately possible for every zone. eggzlot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 ame="alanchow" post="145299" timestamp="1427742411"]any updates on this? Control4 have not given me an update. It has been requested though there are quite alot of feature requests by numerous people (dealers, distributors & developers) so it is still up in the air whether or not it will be implemented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Extra Vegetables actually has an example in their documentation on how to utilise our Advanced Announcements in their documentation so yes you can use it with Sonos. You do not need audio outputs going into sonos from Control4 as Sonos will read the wav file directly. Definately possible for every zone.Hi Alan, And they would all be in sync (the Play radios and the in wall speakers using the Sonos connect/C4 Amp/C4 Matrix set up)? Especially if using the PA function to make an announcement over the system. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Hi Alan,And they would all be in sync (the Play radios and the in wall speakers using the Sonos connect/C4 Amp/C4 Matrix set up)? Especially if using the PA function to make an announcement over the system.Thanks!No they will not. This is because sonos does not have the limitations that control4 does. As such Sonos will play first before Control4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Hi Alan, I am having some issues trying to program. My dealer installed the driver but now I am having trouble with our schedules to sync up to get him to program. So I was trying to hack at it myself. I have Sonos and its around step 10 where my issues pop up. I am picking the Sonos driver on the events side, but when I go to the actions side to pick announcement I do not see announcement, but I have announcements. If I click on that, I get a list of the announcement files but nothing that looks like your documentation with having to type in a file name. If I picked the Advanced Announcement driver I do not get that option either. I am sure I a missing something simple, but after reading and re-reading and staring at my computer for too long of a time, I think I may be glossing over something easy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 still here plugging away. something else I noticed, when I start over to follow the directions from scratch - When I am in Agents > Announcements I notice my Master Bedroom (Sonos Play 1) is not "saved". I can enter any other room, leave that screen and come back and those room(s) are still there, except the Master. I can try the Master on its own, the Master plus 2 other rooms, etc. And whenever I leave that screen and come back, the Master is never there, yet if I did Master + 2 other rooms, those other 2 rooms are there. So for now I am trying another room, but still no luck. For after step 10, I realize I can get that screen shot if I pick a Sonos unit in a particular room. Yet I do that, type in Advanced Announcement.wav and I am still not getting any audio. The only text to speech I am converting is Hello Today Is (I did not try a variable for the date, literally just those 3 words, Hello Today Is) I've attached photos of my programming too if anyone can see maybe my slip up. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 Hi Alan, I am having some issues trying to program. My dealer installed the driver but now I am having trouble with our schedules to sync up to get him to program. So I was trying to hack at it myself. I have Sonos and its around step 10 where my issues pop up. I am picking the Sonos driver on the events side, but when I go to the actions side to pick announcement I do not see announcement, but I have announcements. If I click on that, I get a list of the announcement files but nothing that looks like your documentation with having to type in a file name. If I picked the Advanced Announcement driver I do not get that option either. I am sure I a missing something simple, but after reading and re-reading and staring at my computer for too long of a time, I think I may be glossing over something easy? Hi there, Unfortunately we did not do the initial documentation on using sonos with the Advanced Announcements driver. It was something that extra vegetables did for us when they were our distributors. I don't have a sonos unit to test this against either so i can't really be of any help. Your dealer can try and talk to Control4 technical support to see if they can offer some insight for you as they now offer full support for the Sonos driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 thanksgot it all worked out with my dealer with the weather driver. Next up, google calendar integration! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4wiz Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Until Control4 changes the 15 second announcement limitation, this driver is pretty useless, as most announcemets are cutoff, IE: daily weather forcasts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 I have mine going through Sonos. Not sure if its 15 seconds or not if you use Sonos hardware. That said, it reads me the day, date, time, forecasted hi/low temps, current temps and will check my google calendar. and it works without being cut off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 Until Control4 changes the 15 second announcement limitation, this driver is pretty useless, as most announcemets are cutoff, IE: daily weather forcastsThe 15 second announcement only effects control4 hardware not sonos. Having said that though my house reads out 'good morning alan. Today's date is <day>, <ddmmyyyy>. The forecast for today is <forecast> with a minimum of <min> and maximum of <max>. The current temperature inside your home is <temp>.'. This is read out every weekday morning and has done so since I installed the driver when I wrote it without any issues. Fits in nicely and does not cut off via control4's audio output playing voicerss's English female voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 Looks like neil posted a video of our driver in action Nice work. I'm actually starting to make videos for all of the chowmain drivers due to high demand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 A couple of questions:- SpeechUtil.com appears to be defunct. Can that be replaced with ivona or some other service?- where is the Advanced Announcements.wav file stored? How can I extract it to a PC?- when I use the TIME{} variable, it is 12 hours off ... When it is 2pm, it says 2am. I'm guessing that's an issue with the settings in the HC-800 - is that something I can change or does my dealer need to do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 A couple of questions:- SpeechUtil.com appears to be defunct. Can that be replaced with ivona or some other service?- where is the Advanced Announcements.wav file stored? How can I extract it to a PC?- when I use the TIME{} variable, it is 12 hours off ... When it is 2pm, it says 2am. I'm guessing that's an issue with the settings in the HC-800 - is that something I can change or does my dealer need to do it?You are correct seems like there are some issues with speechutil.com not sure if it is site problems or if they plan to not resume the service.Personally though I utilise voicerss as it utilises natural voices. I suggest using that one The file is stored in the controllers announcement directory \\ipofdirector\media\announcementsYou are correct about the time. Dealer needs to set it for you. 12 hours is a lot as usually it's set to a Timezone. They probably didn't do that when programming the project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4wiz Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 how do i find the device id and owner id for current indoor temp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted July 22, 2015 Author Share Posted July 22, 2015 how do i find the device id and owner id for current indoor temp?Have a read of the install guide on our website. It teaches you how to extract this information from composer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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