frankcottnj
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I have the BP talk board that controls the servo by sound. If I plug a headset male plug into my headphone on the PC and run it to the talk board the servo works fine but I lose the sound. Should I split the cable and run a speaker in parallel with this so I can get the sound back or does does the software have an option to not shut off the PC's speaker. Bottom line I need to hear the voice coming from computer.
I guess the other option is to leave headset port on PC along and put a mic on the talk board but I really don't want this because of background noise.
Sincerely Frank, EZ Ver 4
I have a similar setup, but I have a light controller, instead of a servo controller. I used one of these, and put in a separate set of speakers. The external speakers sound much better anyway. "Y" connector Note; you can probably pick one up at Radio Shack. I just used the link to show it in a picture.
Depending on your computer hardware, you may be able to get both the plug and internal speakers to work together. Right click you speaker icon in the quicklaunch bar, and select "Open Volume Mixer"
Under "Device" you will see your currently connected device, and a little drop down arrow after it's name. If you click the arrow, it will show all of your devices. Select (if available) the internal speakers (name will vary depending on the driver) then, once selected, unclick the mute button.
You should now have sound from both sources.
Again, depending on hardware and the specific drivers, you may need to do this every time you boot up or unplug and replug the external source. I do on my HP Laptop
Alan
Simple answer - yes, you can use a Y adaptor (which is essentially the same as running in parallel). Personally speaking I wouldn't over complicate things with using more than one output on the PC etc. If you run the speaker in parallel with the source for the servo board both speaker and servo board get the exact same signal and are in complete sync. No messing about, no fuss and a very cheap (or simple to make) Y adaptor.
You can also remove the BP talk board and replace it with the EZ-B v4. The EZ-B v4 has a Sound servo that does not require a microphone. It merely moves specified servos for any sound that plays through the EZ-B v4.
The v4 is a different beast, and does not require a microphone on your PC like the v3 did. The v4 has embedded audio so it all just happens magically
hi... I just got my ez-b v4 ! perfect. But my firts question is about sound sync. How can I send the PC voice TO EZ-b ?! it works great with SoundBoard, but the voice (the microsoft one, that I use for general speech) still got going trhu PC speakers..
Simple, use the command SayEZB("Hello") instead of Say("Hello")
YEAH! Just found it. Thanks.. BTW do you know if there is some threat that helps me to connect the EZB as client on my network ? I was able to configure it with my network, it says that is logged in that, but.. I cannot find it on ARC...
It's already a tutorial in the Learn section of the website... Connecting EZB4 to your network