Shivam Paw

28 minutes ago, ::::Jim:::: said:

This is good news as I use Radio 2 as my morning alarm. Thank you for making the driver. Is this something I can do as an end user or what do I need to telll my installer (I'd be grateful if you could spell it out as he isn't a spring chicken!!!)

kind regards,

Jim

PM me and we can try and get you running  

28 minutes ago, msgreenf said:

Very cool!  Would you want to make one of these for iHeart Radio in the US?  I have a spreadsheet of all the feeds....

Possibly. Message me on slack? 

As of version 25 (available at the same link as before) there is a programming command to allow you to programmatically play one of the stations in a room.

You can see our other drivers at https://www.blackwiredesigns.com/jooced/

On 8/30/2019 at 8:24 AM, ILoveControl said:

Looks awesome, from my perspective and would show case all the use cases (unless I am being dumb and didn’t read correctly), would be great to have the use cases setup all in one place like the driver setup doc.

This would provide huge value for users and drive sales of other supporting drivers.

Thank you for creating this!

Yeah not a bad shout. Will focus on that for a future release

1 hour ago, eggzlot said:

Just got around to getting this driver and want to test it prior to snowfall - I still have a few months!  That said, how would I go about programming to get a text when say 1 of these variables changes?

Weather in 3 hours

When the variable weather in 3 hour changes

Do I go to the Device Actions, pick Weather in 3 Hours and in the "is =" section in the text box write any of those parameters you list?  for now the action will just be a simple text so I can test it out.  So would I get text every 3 hours, or only if the status changes?

 

You would want to program using the "Weather Updated" event.

Your programming would be:

If weather in 3 hours equals snow AND CustomVariable_ShouldSendSnowText equals true then 

	send text
	Set CustomVariable_ShouldSendSnowText equal to false

Else

	Set CustomVariable_ShouldSendSnowText equal to true

At least, I think that's how I'd do it. That way it will only send a text if the weather in 3 hours variable has changed.

1 hour ago, RobbieF said:

Great!  Do you know if Office 365 supports this by default?  I did read the link; but was confused with the tile referencing "Hybrid Deployments", and this sentence:  "released in September 2016 for Exchange on-premises servers, adds support for REST API integration with Office 365".

Reading this makes it look as though it does:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/office-365-api/

But can you confirm it integrated with Office 365 natively? 

It works with work office 365 account so I assume so. You can always use the 72 hour free trial to make sure it works with you too.

14 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said:

50% is perfect on my speakers but on my T3s, even 90% is low.  Not sure why.  I have also never played announcements to T3s before, so I am not sure what is normal. 

I’ve never tried T3s to be honest but I’d try a normal announcement and see what it’s like on a T3. 
 

14 hours ago, Cartnj said:

Did I miss a note indicating that there is a conflict when you popup an announcement (image) on the T3 and try to play a text to speech announcement at the same time?

Looks like the only way to bring back the text to speech again is a controller reboot

 

Does this happen when you play a normal announcement (not using this driver)

2 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said:

Is there any easy way to increase the volume of the wav file returned?

The reason I ask is 2 fold:

1. The volume is low relative to the music we play etc. so I may have music playing at, say 20 and the need to play the announcement at 5.  When the system returns to playing the music, it blasts for a second or two and then returns to volume at 20 and is ok.  The fix for this used to be to use a Stop Delay in the announcements Agent but this does not help in OS3 (not sure why - may be a bug).

2. More importantly, when I play the announcement on any of my T3s (in reality, I have only played with this for fun and will probably never use it in real life), the volume is too low even when set to 90.

I'll make a note of this - I can see it being useful but it's odd...my announcements play very loudly if I up the volume to more than 50. Different setups of course but I wouldn't think 90% would be too low? It would be interesting to hear the actual WAV file (gotten via SSH) as shown in a previous post to see if that's low.

V7 brings All-Day variable support and adds the following variables:

ALL_DAY_EVENT_TITLE
ALL_DAY_EVENT_HUMAN_TIME
ALL_DAY_EVENT_LOCATION
ALL_DAY_EVENT_DESCRIPTION

NUM_ALL_DAY_EVENTS_TODAY

The top 4 will give you the first all day event. If you have more than one then firstly, you've double booked yourself and secondly there's no way to get information about it for now.

	scp root@CONTROLLER_IP://media/announcements/text_to_speech_announcements_DEVICE_ID.mp3 ~/Desktop
	

Works on Mac OS. But if you ssh into your directory and go to /media/announcements it's there @dw886

56 minutes ago, dw886 said:

True.  The other option would be to use %month%, %day%, and %year% as variables, and they could be combined any way someone wanted. 

There may be another driver somewhere that has these as a variable, and if so, that would create another way to access these since you can concatenate another variable to a string.

Yeah I’ll probably add some new variables for month, day, year and day of month with the next release 

It's here! After a lot of requests, we now have a driver for providing Outlook Calendar integration!

Just pushed an update (V6) which should fix a bug where if you were on a fast internet connection and refreshing events took less than a second...they wouldn't refresh an hour later (or until you manually refreshed them). This should now be fixed!

(Yes, I just blamed this bug on having a good internet connection)

2 hours ago, dw886 said:

Feature Request: Configurable "Date" formatting for %date% from DD:MM (30 July) to MM:DD (July 30).  We're backwards in the US...

I just feel that the driver properties will get too clunky if every minor detail like this was made configurable. It’s easy to do, I just don’t know if there’s much point to it?

1 hour ago, dw886 said:

Is the rounded temperature only in the High / Low values, and not in the Summary?  I'm still seeing a precision of 2 decimal places in the Summary.

Full Summary : The weather is currently Clear. There are currently 0 weather alerts. The weather for today is Partly cloudy throughout the day. There will be highs of 78.51 and lows of 58.58. The weather for the week ahead is, Light rain on Monday, with high temperatures rising to 87°F on Sunday.

My bad...V8 (just released) fixes this...

32 minutes ago, BraydonH said:

I know that LUX does this. Havent used them myself but I was just in their training and it seems alright. Price is great

http://www.luxcctv.com/products/16-channel-hybrid-hd-tvi-dvr-lux-tri-t16/

They do have C4 drivers.

Also i'm pretty sure a LUMA 510 DVR can do this. Luma is our go-to but honestly I have never dont a hybrid setup myself. I am an analog guy all the way! (5MP analog HD-TVI kick ass)

LUX-3GDVR16-4T is that the model that does analog and IP? I don't think the one you linked has any mention of IP?

Just now, dw886 said:

Is there a maximum length for an Announcement, either in Control4, or via the Google Text to Speech API? 

I'm finding that I can make them long enough where they're being truncated, but I'm not sure if it's coming from Google or Control4...

It's definitely a "time" limit, because if I speed up the announcement speed in TTS, I can get more words spoken of the same text.

I believe C4 have a 30 second time limit on announcements

What HVRs do you guys use for C4? We have 4 analog cameras and 2 IP cameras. Lilin DHD range have been a disappointment and need to move away from them and quickly!

I just released V5 which renames the get upcoming events action to refresh events which now refreshes upcoming events & todays events instead of just upcoming events. Also todays events are now updated every hour on the dot instead of every day.

Outlook calendar - I'm hoping to release it this week sometime!

Just released V7 which rounds temperature values and also includes the number of alerts in the full summary.

On 7/27/2019 at 9:10 PM, South Africa C4 user said:

Absolutely loving playing with the TTS driver combined with weather and other drivers.  What I am finding a bit weird is that for some drivers I need to use the proxy ID and for others I need to use the Device ID when concatenating into the TTS text.  I have no idea why this is. Not am issue (but worth knowing hence this post). One or other always works. There is probably a very good reason for this.  It is simply above my pay grade.

I find it weird too tbh! But as far as I can tell, with the DriverWorks SDK it'll always be one or the other and I can't figure out a way to properly support any device. As a general rule, if it has a proxy ID, use that, if it doesn't, then use the device ID.

5 hours ago, Unsocialtoaster said:

Hey Shivam, I know you have a lot on your plate with Google and Outlook calendars, but have you thought about looking at iCloud calendars too?

I don't think apple have an official API

16 hours ago, jfh said:

Actually, a musical queue to get you ready for an announcement to follow is a great idea.

<ding ding sound>  <variable text>

I do like that idea..but again, no promises!

Sent it again @ILoveC4