hey ARC s! I was looking to automate my room using the ez-board. I planned on being able to turn things on and off, weather reports, checking rss feeds, etc. I have a desktop computer in my room that i never use but would be perfect to run the software 24/7. To control outlet power/power strip for each individual plug Im assuming i would need some type of relay in line with the plug? The programming would be the easy part. However Im not sure what i would need so that the digital port on the board can interact with the plugs. Does anyone have a safe and reliable way of going about controlling outlet plugs so i don't electrocute myself or burn my house down?
I feel like I remember someone doing this a long time ago with their workshop. But i was unable to find the thread again. Any help or suggestions would be great! I just saw the new iron man/stark industries piece that disneyland put in the innovations building and want to build my own Jarvis-like system using a dedicated ez-board and desktop
Jarvis doesn't run any EZ products (yet) so cannot do a showcase on here for him. Once he and Melvin are talking properly I will give details on that and any EZ-Enhancements I add (such as a cool idea for lighting control and automatic curtain openers).
oh... really? did you just create the program?
also, what windows voice are you using for JARVIS
It's a combination of a few different programs, all combined. Everything is logged to a MySQL DB and can be pulled on request, I have a basic web page set up with the info on...
The page continues down covering energy cost for daily, days of week, week total, month, previous month, year etc. and controls and status for lights, windows, doors, media players... it's only the alpha code, I need to get on and build a better looking UI for it all.Any of this information is also available to Melvin through some clever HTTPGet scripting and PHP code. With it Melvin will know what temperature it is, if the doors or windows are open, if I'm home... he can know more than I do.
It also stores and lists all of my media (TV shows, Movies, Music) and synchronizes all media players libraries, updating watched status and even remembering where it was paused or stopped so it can be resumed in a different room. Automatically downloads TV shows if my PVR misses them for any reason (and more which I wont divulge)
Just added a few security cameras to it too, which I plan to use so Melvin will be directed to where ever an alert is triggered, using his camera will give me a better view.
He even posts on facebook and twitter by himself, scrobbles watched TV and movies to trakt and music to last.fm...
Can make images on the fly, if this works these should be dynamically updated when refreshed...
I could go on but I'm hijacking a topic with something not yet EZ-B related (it will be though) I'll let you know the url for the website I'll be making detailing it all once I find time to make it.
And the voice is cereproc's William. Melvin will probably be given a cereproc voice too since they are pretty realistic and accurate but aren't free.
Anyway, back on to the topic before I get into trouble... although hopefully this has given people some ideas for their own Jarvis
Hey Rich, very nice work there! I will send you a link to a private video of our Ai on Youtube, is a few years old and was taken late 2008, but I think it may be of interest as we "fronted" our Ai with a virtual human.
I've been using Cepstral Voices...
www.cepstral.com/en/demos
Very similar... very nice!