Hi Dave and James, thanks for putting the Vox Alexa Skill together, it's just what I needed to use all my echo dots as microphones for vox.

Hi Dave, fantastic to see you have got something working, can you drop the steps for how you have done this and are you having to say an INVOKE SKILL activation phrase like ALEXA TELL Skill Name to... or are you saying Alexa COMMAND?

Thanks in advance and look forward to the steps.

Cheers.
Sim

Quote from: Dave on December 19, 2016, 10:46:01 AM
Hi Simeon,

did you get it to work?
I got my dot a few days ago and found an interesting script for a custom skill on the Eventghost forum, which I use with small changes to directly send commands ...

Thanks nime5ter for the input, gives me something to play around with to see if I can get things working, just been mega busy to give it a go just yet, will keep you posted on how I get on with this approach and the others.

Quote from: nime5ter on December 08, 2016, 08:20:59 PM
We don't have access to the Amazon interface so it's something you'll need to figure out on your own...

Hi James, yeah I need to be logged in, so with robo b I will just save my login so always logged in, I can have the page go full screen with a hidden window and use coordinates to grab the latest DIV / SPAN "dd-title d-dialog-title" / inner text which is the command I have spoken.

It's just some xml I need to grab the spoken command text and send it to vox, I can input the x y coordinates variables if a place is left for those.

Would regex option not work if I was always logged into the browser with my password saved?

I've noticed the DIV tag goes up in 2s and the lowest DIV tag is the latest command spoken and recorded by the echo, images attached for where I highlighted and copy of the inner HTML code from robo b..

So a rule to use lowest DIV tag variable "dd-title d-dialog-title" maybe to get vox only using the latest history entry.

Hi Kalle, I just scraped the page with the regex tool but it can't find what I am seeing on the page, attached is a text file of the scrape return, it is the same when I right click and try and view page source, it's not actually showing the page content.

In robo b however the elements and everything is all there to see as included above.

The audios are available for listening to of commands said to the echo but not downloadable, only gives the option to delete them.

Is there anyway to pull all the code from robo b?

I think you are probably right about a scrape command with regex, peg leg did something with regex for someone who wanted to know the temperature of their thermostat and it pulled the numbers from the variable and then gave them to vox.

The temperature example would probably work for this with slight modification so instead of TTS the output of my span variable "dd-title d-dialog-title" from the scraped page, instead it just inputs it as a command to vox.

http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=2263.0

I just need to pull the inner html from the variable "dd-title d-dialog-title" and get it sent as an input to vox, then I should be able to use my current commands for vox through the echo.

Echo won't understand the voice input but everything I say will be added to the history for vox to act on.

Hi Everyone,

I need some help so I can test out a possible solution to us being able to use the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot Microphones for use with Vox.

It will basically work by scraping the voice recording history page where everything said to an echo device you own is stored in text.

So the idea is to scrape the text and then have it passed to vox as a command, the only problem for now is I will need to name my vox Alexa or have one of it's activation words be Alexa at least since the history text contains the ACTIVATION WORD and then what was said after it.

The url that the information needs pulling from is: http://alexa.amazon.co.uk/spa/index.html?#settings/dialogs

It updates in real time after saying anything to the Echo device, so if someone can whip up some code to test it that would be great.

I will just have my robo browser login info saved so I can go straight to http://alexa.amazon.co.uk/spa/index.html?#settings/dialogs

The thing I can't work out from the code I scraped to find where the text I say appears is how to get vox to find the most recent version / command I have said as the span number in code will change as new commands come in and there will be multiple commands on a page, so how to get vox to pull just the most recent history event text.

Maybe have the robo b page maximise and then use the coordinates of the variable "dd-title d-dialog-title" to scan just that bit of text.

If you have any ideas or suggestions or can help with some code to pull the spoken command text and then have it input to vox that would be great.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Sim
P.S: Span Class= is "dd-title d-dialog-title" >whatever my command I said was goes here</span>

I had the same issue and thought it was just me, so added my activation key for the second time and it activated okay but means I am a key down now I think. I am running windows 10, but since adding the activation key again it has been okay and trial mode hasn't came back.

Ahhh okay, it is probably best to have it set so you can choose when the app opens, the motion alerts on the device are far from accurate and would have the app constantly opening and stopping you doing what you are doing on the computer.

I do have it set up so that when the doorbell is pressed however that my TV switches over to the HDMI channel and loads up the app and opens the mic so I can speak to the visitor but its rather an intricate set up and to much to go into on a post.

It can all be done though, so don't give up on it.

Quote from: 2exclusive on June 08, 2016, 01:59:15 PM
I actually started looking into another direction, I am trying to leverage the windows 10 notification to generate a trigger so VC can open the app once there is motion or someone has rung the doorbell. But there is no LOGS for notification center , I could of created an event trigger off that but no luck. The other thing im looking at is if the ring app writes to a file every time it detects motion or a doorbell ring. the path to the app is C:\program files\windowsapps\

you have any ideas?

thanks

Nice one James, thanks for adding that, I have been adding it to my commands and it looks and works great.

Is there anyway to make the notifications clickable for a security alert for example, to click it and have it load a program or url?

Anyway to make the notification remain on screen until clicked to close?

Cheers and great feature.
Sim

How did you get along with it?

Hi There, yes it is rather easy, you will need to have windows 10 installed on your PC, then download the RING app which only works on WIN 10, then just use keyboard emulation to click the sections of the app you want to voice control.

All the best,
Sim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy_AmAJjqXc
Hi Everyone, here is a video showing my ring video doorbell being controlled with vox commando, last year I added a thread on being able to see your ring video doorbell events and past visitors.

This new video shows how vox can now be used to answer the video doorbell and speak to who is at your front door. I now have this set up on my business PC which is linked up to the big TV in the office and I also have it set up in the front room.

So when someone approaches the front door or presses the ring video doorbell, the TV turns over to the HDMI channel to see my ring video doorbell and I get the option of answering the video call through my TV and speaking to my visitors at my front door.

That would be a cool feature, I will be keeping an eye out for this in upcoming releases :-)

Quote from: nime5ter on April 22, 2016, 12:54:18 PM
The action works the way any VoxCommando action that "gets" some kind of information works.

It stores the result of the action in {LastResult}.

So you'd need to add a TTS.GetLastText action in directly above your scrape action. Then you use {LastResult} in your URL to represent the last TTS spoken.

Hi nime5ter, I had just worked it out and got it working before this reply, but thanks for the help though, I appreciate it.