Thanks so much for your help i have realized i was using {P1} not {1} and now its working fine.

Thank you for your help, the request comes though looking like
http://192.168.31.180:80/api/VC.TriggerEvent&&FAMILYLIGHTSON&&50  and I have tried using the {1} but this comes though empty which was why I asked the question as I'm clearly doing it wrong.

Shane

I think that's what I said, I know the speech recognition is not a limitation of VoxCommando its of the OS and APIs it can use and these will get better over time.

I personally used a polycom device which is of very good quality but found it was detecting commands and responding to requests simply with the television on in the same room.

The amazon echo does not do this in my environment.  Again this is not a dig at voxcommando I think its a great product and as I said its the integral part of my automation.

Can anyone help me with this please?  I am calling a URL on to Voxcommander like this :

http://192.168.31.180:80/api/VC.TriggerEvent&&FAMILYLIGHTSON&&${intensity.percent}

to turn on my lights.

I can see in the logs that the percent is being passed into the Voxcommado web service but im not sure how to grab the 50 thats being passed in the ${intensity.percent} and use that as a variable in my commands that voxcommando is going to run.

Any tips would be great.

I thought i would share my experience with VoxCommando and the echo as its the best thing i have setup.

I use the Echo as its voice recognition is the best i have ever seen, i use it with the amazon-echo-ha-bridge   https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge  This project emulates a HUE bridge and then passes an HTML request on to turn devices on or off.

I use this gateway to call Voxcommando HTTP tasks so i can say "Alexa turn on the rumpas room TV" and it calls one HTML request to VoxCommand which then, Turns on my projector, turns on my pioneer amp, selects the correct source etc turns on my wemo controlled sub etc.

This allows awesome automation as the echo is simply the speech engine and its the best thing i have seen to do this.  Also this allows me once VoxCommando gets to the point where its speech recognition is as good and im sure one day it will get there i wont have to redevelop everything as its only the font end that will change