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Alexa as Copilot?

Postby smartroad » Thu Jan 12, 2017 9:02 am

Just read this article: http://www.pcmag.com/news/350956/alexa- ... -dangerous about a guy who got Alexa to work as a copilot for ED. Seems a cool idea especially for those who are in VR.
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Re: Alexa as Copilot?

Postby Darr Valen » Thu Jan 12, 2017 9:21 am

I think I'm gonna try this with my spare Echo.
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Postby TorTorden » Thu Jan 12, 2017 10:52 am

Linking Alexa to the game so as his voice commands could be carried out required writing two programs for Windows 10.

That and a 180$ piece of kit.


Guess nobody told him about voice attack.
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Re: Alexa as Copilot?

Postby Cmdr Chemtrail » Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:25 pm

Voice attack and a voice pack or two. Much cheaper and possibly a lot more immersive

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Re: Alexa as Copilot?

Postby smartroad » Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:54 pm

TorTorden wrote:That and a 180$ piece of kit.


Guess nobody told him about voice attack.


Or the Dot for only £50 :D
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Re: Alexa as Copilot?

Postby de Carabas » Fri Jan 13, 2017 2:06 pm

This has got me wondering about whether I can use my electronic rabbit for something.

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I could have my SSC app monitor the Journal for particular events and then tell Oscar the Internet Rabbit to do stuff based on what's happening.

How about changing the flashing tummy light to red and saying "Ah, crap!" when I get destroyed?
Or maybe a wiggle of the ears and a "Right on Commander" when I've taken down an NPC?

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Re: Alexa as Copilot?

Postby smartroad » Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:53 pm

I've been thinking the same, but with my Wi-Fi controlled RGBW light. Have it change colours depending on states. Don't know though if the log says things like when you are in super cruise, hyperspace, normal flight and combat
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Re: Alexa as Copilot?

Postby de Carabas » Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:11 pm

smartroad wrote:I've been thinking the same, but with my Wi-Fi controlled RGBW light. Have it change colours depending on states. Don't know though if the log says things like when you are in super cruise, hyperspace, normal flight and combat

Mood lighting. Nice.

Is your wifi light controllable via an http command? I could look to choose certain triggers from the log and then have it send your choice of command. Should be quite flexible and work with a variety of devices.
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Re: Alexa as Copilot?

Postby smartroad » Fri Jan 20, 2017 1:54 pm

de Carabas wrote:Mood lighting. Nice.

Is your wifi light controllable via an http command? I could look to choose certain triggers from the log and then have it send your choice of command. Should be quite flexible and work with a variety of devices.


It is a 'milight' which is the same as limitesLED among others. Basically it listens on a TCP port for a command and then sends that out to the lamp(s). I have used https://github.com/McSwindler/python-milight in a python script before to give myself some basic control from a PC but I wouldn't have the first clue how to read the states from the log files!

I don't do much programming in Python or on the PC, most of mine is using Arduino's and the like!

This is the controller I have: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/a60/Controll ... ds=milight

and the bulb type I use: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mi-Light-expan ... ds=milight
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Re: Alexa as Copilot?

Postby de Carabas » Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:30 pm

smartroad wrote: It is a 'milight' which is the same as limitesLED among others. Basically it listens on a TCP port for a command and then sends that out to the lamp(s). I have used https://github.com/McSwindler/python-milight in a python script before to give myself some basic control from a PC but I wouldn't have the first clue how to read the states from the log files!

I don't do much programming in Python or on the PC, most of mine is using Arduino's and the like!

http://www.limitlessled.com/dev/ has a sample vb.net app for sending the commands! So yes, looks pretty straight forward to code something based off a combination of that and a modified version of my SSC app.

I might have to buy the devices (just for testing you understand. I'm not a geek or anything :D
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