@Rich I now have a great mic it hears me vary clearly from any where in my small home and I have not even trained the computer at all plus I have not teeth so I don't speak to well at all lol but it seems to work pretty good but I still have not used it for direct dictation "yet" only had it a few days now and still trying to get to know win 7 lol

@d.cochran No you did not come off as offended at all its just that I know that I have poor communication skills and I tend to forget that some times lol when it comes to staring data its not hard at all in ARC as it now works with txt files but I have not had a chance to really mess with that yet In time im hoping that ez-robot will implement the use of ini files and that will greatly improve what we can do and how data can be stored updated and retrieved .... that's a update ive dreamed about for well over a year now ... I have mentioned it long ago and again just now lol

I know DJ and the rest of the Staff have a lot on the go so its all cool I Thank them all Every day for all the hard work they do

I also yell at them every day to rest and relax more as I know how hard they work Keep up the great work DJ and the rest of the EZ-Robot team (Y)

@Richard R Thank you and yes I am rolling with it have been for some time now just have not posted about it till now .... I was kinda holding off for a bit ... was going to post about it a month ago but had a lot on the go and my computer was messing up big time along with my internet and and and lol

But now im "trying" to be more active on here and maybe become a little more useful lol

@Richard, try the pandora bot control and see how satisfied you are with a conversation between you and the bot. There is a huge difference in accuracy between grammar mode and dictation mode.

I'm not saying it wont work I'm saying the accuracy and overall results will be much higher by using phrase lists (grammar mode) over nothing to reference against (dictation mode). I've never been satisfied with the results given from dictation mode on any application however will admit my standards are extremely high though.

@Wolfe, its not the storing so much as the retrieving specific pieces of data on demand. For example, the last time the temp outside was x and the humidity was y rich had me set the thermostat to z. If rich had me do this many times, I would then be able to average these Z's for the conditions of X and Y. That would be a cool feature for his home automation through Jarvis.

a query to get this data would be very easy to write and would be able to retrieve the data quickly. Im getting off the subject of this thread, but you get the idea.

You can save it all to a txt file and the retrieve it at and time as well as update it at any time you just need to work it into your scripts to have it saved to a txt file in a way what a script can work with it Right now I cant think of how as ive been up way to long so my mind is turned off so much that I don't even know if im really typing this or if im in bed sleeping lol

how I would save it to txt file would be some thing like

variable = data and so on

Then a script could work with it and reload it at any time and or update it I cant think of how right now but is should be fairly "ez" I believe @Rich knows what I mean and could script that in less than 5 minutes as well as many others on here so far I have not gotten that far with programming ARC yet once ARC starts working with ini files aka info files "your computer is full of them" then saving data will be a lot simpler to work with but that could be some time yet to be implemented

@Rich... Thanks for the clarification.... I think we discussed this before here, actually... Totally forgot about grammar vs dictation.... Yes I have tried Pandorabot... so point taken....

Cheers Richard

The difference is that a query can be executed that puts the processing on the database to return the result you are looking for and this is all done very quickly.

I now have an app that will read variables from ARC and insert them into a mssql database table. Tomorrow I will work on being able to call this exe and pass in the variable name you are wanting to store. After that, I will make it more configurable, and then make it work with a MySQL database.

I will probably make this just return the query result to a variable called $sqlresult for now. I haven't really thought about it yet.

Right now, it simply stores the robot name, variable name, variable value and a primary key. The variable value is a varchar(max) field.

that is the goal for the first version. Who knows what will come after that.

Man, I love this community. Database access from ARC. I can probably think of hundreds of uses for that.

Alan