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Connect To A Secure MQTT Broker
Hi everyone, I have a MQTT cloud service, deployed on Amazon Web Service. It has secret credentials like username, password & client Id. My question is: on EZ-robot MQTT client, how to connect to a secure MQTT Broker using username, password & client Id? Also how to configure the qos (quality of service)? How to configure these credentials...
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Anyone Building A Full Size R2D2 From Mr. Baddely Design?
Synthiam/ARC users, I now have some series 3D printers and I am starting to build a full size R2D2 unit working with this designer who has a FB page.... https://www.facebook.com/groups/MrBaddeley Most R2 builders use Padawan 360 build which is based on Arduinos and various other components. I am thinking about implementing an ARC build using an...
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onedayflie2 |
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Ultrasonic Distance Sensor
Can you confirm whether the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor (Collision) works with the Mobile App? Comments from 2017 suggests not, and it doesn't work for me. Works fine with ARC.
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afcorson |
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Dome Lift Mechanism R2D2
I am trying to convert a system so it can be used in EZ-B/ The Dome Lift MEchanism by Matthew Zwarts https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3654411 The system works with a...
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onedayflie2 |
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Switch / Case Statement
I am neck deep in programming my "Simone" robot. I know that I can use multiple or nested if/elseif/then statements, but what would really make my life easier would be a "switch / case statement." switch(expression) { case constant-expression : statement(s); break; case constant-expression : statement(s); break; ...
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DJ Sures |
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OTHER: Using ARC Without Internet Access?
If I am out demonstrating my robot and there is bad internet service or even no internet service, how would I run ARC? Does ARC REQUIRE...
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TMesserschmidt |
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How To Use Prosody Contour In Speech Synthesis
You have exposed most of the prosody features (pitch, emphasis, rate, volume, break, phonemes) and I am thrilled that they all work perfectly! Thank you. I enjoy using them to vary my robot's voice. Still, there is one feature that is only partially exposed and that is "prosody contour. " When I attempt to use prosody contour, the voice...
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TMesserschmidt |
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What Is The Difference Between Pauselistening And Stoplistening
I have been using these two commands together, one following the other in my scripts. So far...
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TMesserschmidt |
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Can You Control More Than One Ezbv4/2 In The Mobile App?
Am I missing something? Can the mobile app control multiple EZBs? I am using two in my robot and one is a...
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robo rad |
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How To Use T265 With A Lidar?
Hello guys. I'm trying to setup a base template project to use T265 and Lidar Plugins. Can someone share a project or scripts to navigate and use the Lidar data...
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DJ Sures |
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Stopping Bing From Recording
Something has changed I guess. Bing Speech Recognition used to have controls that let the software turn off recording using these settings in the control: 6. Level Threshold Field This adjustable threshold level is used for both Auto Recording (if enabled) and stopping recording. If you find that even in manual mode the recording manually stops too...
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Dave Schulpius |
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Robot Skills Reach Daily Limit
I am new to ARC. I purchased the premium subscription but was disappointed that it keeps kicking me out of skills as I'm building because I reach daily limits. How do these limits work? Is there a way to get unlimited time on these skills? The latest issue was with Cognitive Face, but it also happened with Bing voice recognition. I got around...
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fxmech |