I’ll be the first to chime in and say congratulations. I think we have all been looking forward to this rewrite. Rebrand is probably needed as you put more mileage between Synthiam and EZ-Robot. But probably will get confusing for new users. I look forward to the coming weeks as the new ARC pages fill Synthiam site.

thanks for the program

Ang, you are installing the incorrect MSI file if you continually get the incorrect version. When you download a file and a file already exists, it'll create a (1) or (2) or (3) copy of the file. Look at the date time of the file and install the latest one.

However, the error message you displayed may be from a plugin? Any more you can tell me?

I looked in my downloaded files on my computer, only have one copy of ARC

That appears to be an incompatible plugin - which is AIMLBot. Thanks for providing that feedback. We'll slowly be updating plugins for compatibility. Our first priority is to get the base operation of ARC stable before updating the plugins.

Yes Bing Speech Recognition -

ok, thanks

Okay - so that's "Advanced Speech Recognition" or "Bing Speech Recognition". Because those are different. Can you verify which control it is?

Bing Speech Recognition   with AIML bot

Great! I'll update them today for ARC compatibility for ya

wonderful, cheers!

I just downloaded the ARC ARC Beta 2020.01.24.00

I know you will fix this late.

Just to let you know, I still get these errors

Bing Speech Recognition

Silence: 1 Silence: 2 Silence: 3 Silence: 4 Silence: 1 Silence: 2 Sending data (28846 Bytes) Data Sent! Response: How are you Start Script

Error on line 1: Could not load type 'EZ_Builder.Scripting.EZScriptManager' from assembly 'ARC, Version=2015.8.9.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c3a3457c97d352d9'. Done (00:00:00.0203447)

Debug screen: 2020/01/24 10:55:44 -06:00 - Error on line 1: Could not load type 'EZ_Builder.Scripting.EZScriptManager' from assembly 'ARC, Version=2015.8.9.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c3a3457c97d352d9'.

What plugin are you using? It is not Bing speech recognition. Is it Advanced Speech Recognition? Please provide the correct plugin

The BingSpeech Recognition is now working with the AIML - but no audio now

something changed

Please use the correct plugin title for clarification. I believe you are referring to Advanced Speech Recognition. Can you clarify?

What do you mean by "no audio now"

I had everything working

Now when I ask a question in the BingSpeechRecognition, like before, the answer come out in the AIML BOT as text like before, but no "audio" as before to hear the answer to the question I asked,

In the BingSpeechRecognition, I have ControlCommand("AimlBot",SetPhrase, $BingSpeech) in All recognized Scripts

Does this make sense to you?

The plugin you are using is Advanced Speech Recognition.

If you wish the robot to speak, you will need to have a command that allows the robot to speak.

In AIML, your response script should have something about having the robot speak. This isn't the correct thread for helping with your scripting.

Advanced Speech Recognition is not what it says

look

All good, works well

Your project will not have audio until you either add a SoundBoard, SoundBoardv4, or use speech commands in scripting. This is off topic of this thread. Create a new thread based on your question to learn how to have text speaking or audio playing with Arc.

This looks very interesting but as you stated any projects saved in the new ARC format will not be backward compatible with ARC. I was planning on starting my projects from scratch, anyway, should I just start with ARC or should I wait awhile.  I will be away for a couple of weeks enjoying tropical sun so I will check this out when I get back.  This looks incredible.

Start with arc and report and bugs

mobile and all plugs are moving toward arc. There won’t be backward compatibility with the old slow ARC

I installed ARC and it installed very fast.  this is good.  One thing to look into is the background color, which is dark.  I like the dark myself as  I find the white background to hard on the eyes.  and I think it has a more updated modern look,  but   there may be others who want a lighter background and may quibble.  As I will be away I will not be giving any Bata error information until  I return.  So far very good.

All works now,

trail and error :-)

Bing Speech control add:

ControlCommand("AimlBot", "SetPhrase", $BingSpeech)

Aiml control add:

java Audio.say(getVar("$BotResponse"));

Above works with PC

Audio.sayEZB(getVar("$BotResponse"));

Above works with ez -robot

@Nallycat, similar to ARC, you can change the background color by visiting the PREFERENCES menu

Nice!! Cannot wait to test it out!!

Better implementation of Java Script is a superb addon!!

Arc is a wonderful program

@EzAng  Thanks,  but I like the Background color as ARC installed it. if I decide to change it I know how.;)

Wii remote plugin when I push button on wii remote the script is not exectuted also the Auto Position plugin does not have the settings gear so cannot add animations.

1. I’ll take a look at wiimote, thanks!

2. auto position does have the settings gear. Perhaps your window is too small. Try resizing it. Windows allows you to resize windows by clicking on the border and dragging.

Thanks DJ just had to delete and readd the auto position.

Hi DJ Sir, Greeting,

I have downloaded the ARC beta today. In this when I connect the USB camera I get the following error and the image gets freeze. This never happened with the previous version of the ARC.

I have attached the screenshot of the error. Kindly look into it and advise.

Regards, Kishore Rao @ Electrofurb 

Kishore, this is a very interesting error. Would it be possible to provide me a copy of your project? I'd like to test it with our USB cameras here to reproduce the error

Kishore, can you verify that your plugins have been updated?

1. Connect to the internet

2. Load ARC (do not load any projects). Use a BLANK project.

3. If you have "check for updates disabled", you will need to manually check. Press this button and update any plugins that require updating...

I'm looking over the new ARC program. I have not gotten past the graphics into the operational part of the program though. I do have some comments on what I've seen.

I use a lot of different script managers. The way they now operate and look makes the different scripts hard to see, find and choose the needed script and/or function. The old way of vertical stacking of scripts is now horizontal and there is now no vertical scroll bar. There is only a horizontal scroll bar that can be used to move through the scripts and operation buttons from side to side. Added to this, the grid that separates every box that used to be black is now a washed out gray color.

Also, in Script Manage I'm not able to resize the script name box if the name I used is too long.  Along with this if the script name is too long I'm not getting any pop up text if I hover over a script name that runs to long for the window.

Other controls like the sound boards still have the old format and the pop up text works like before when I hover the mouse over a long name. I seriously hope plans don't include changing them to look and act like the new format of the Script Managers. Can something be done to make the Script Manager more readable and usable?  I saw nothing wrong with the old format. Please see my pictures below.

One more thing. The control window's boarders are very thin now. It makes it hard to differentiate one control from another. Can the borders be thickened back to the original size?

Thanks!

New Horizontal: 

Old Stacked :

Ah, the script collection indeed is formatted incorrectly. Fixing for today's release, stay tuned

thanks for your quick response DJ

Very cool. Thanks so much.

Updated (notes for this version above)

Thanks so much, menu works great

Thanks, format looks better.

Not a deal killer but I'd still like to see the grid lines in the control windows that separate the scripts and functions look darker. They appear kinda washed out.

You can also resize the control to make more room for the text.... windows allows you to resize the windows

move the mouse cursor over either the right or bottom border. When the icon changes to bunch of arrows, click the mouse. You can now drag the window to be any size you wish. When the project is saved, the window size will be saved for next reload

all controls in ARC are resizable, unlike how ARC was

Nice! Works like a charm.

I have tried the updates as per your instructions but no improvements, hence i uninstalled the ARC and installed the previous version of ARC and loaded my project, in this now i am unable to edit the script, whenever i open the script it gives the following error.

Kindly look into the matter and advise us to get back to the previous version properly.

The webcam which i was using is chines made HIview brand.

Thanks and Regards, Kishore Rao @ Electrofurb

Can you post your project file for me? Thanks!

your screen displays an outdated beta version of ARC (2020.01.28.00). The most recent version at time of this post is (2020.02.29.00). Please use the latest version of software when testing. As we migrate to ARC over the next two weeks, it’ll me very important to use the latest version at all times. This is to help resolve migration issues in a timely fashion.

Regarrding the last image in your response, what action generated that error? Did the plugin files update successsfully? Per my previous instructions (or is that where the errors were created) Was it caused when the Check For Updates was pressed? Or after the updates had occurred? Or shutting down the software? Any details you can provide will help understand these unique issues with migrating

2020.02.29.00 ?

I only see in the releases 2020.01.29.00

As per your instruction when i try to check the plugin update this error occurred and it did not take any update.

I was trying to load a very simple script using image overlay and say PC the "camera image".

I am also trying to update with the latest ARC version as you said and i will let you know it there is an error.

Thanks & Regards,  Kishore Rao @ Electrofurb

Excellent - thanks for the information. I'm unable to reproduce that error. Can you please post your project file here so i can take a look at it?

Hi DJ Sir,

I have downloaded the latest ARC as per your instruction still the error is the same, it initially recognizes the image and after a few seconds, this error occurs. I am attaching the screenshot of the error and the blocky script.

I also observe that there is no audio output.

Regards, Kishore Rao

DJ Sir,

I uninstall the ARC fully and download the previous version of ARC and installed it and opened my saved project. In this when i open the edit script i get the error and I am unable to use blocky or script editor even after closing the error.

Kindly guide me on how to get back to my previous condition.

Thanks & Regards, Kishore Rao @ Electrofurb

The error you are receiving is not from the ARC upgrade. It is from the Camera Overlay plugin. I'll update the plugin for the error. Please install the latest update to camera overlay plugin: https://synthiam.com/Products/Controls/Camera/Camera-Overlay-16136

also, it’ll be a good idea to update to the latest ARC to experience the latest stable enhancements

Hi,

I am following with much interest the development of ARC. It is really exciting. I know your are fully occupied with this Windows beta for now, but I wonder: is it planned to push ARC to the raspberry pi at some time?

Thanks

Fredebec, you bet. We’re getting a stable windows before porting to raspberry pi

at the rate with this feedback and in-house testing, we should be good by end of the month of February

Hi DJ Sir,

I once again reinstalled the ARC with the latest version (ARC ARC Beta 2020.01.30.00) today. The camera freezing is not happening now and there is no error appearing but the sound is missing. I have attached the error which is appearing on the console, please look into the matter.

Also please guide me on how to roll back to the old ARC version.

Thanks & Regards, Kishore Rao @ Electrofurb

Great! I’ll have an update for you later today. Stay tuned

Electrofurb, Hopefully you backed up and saved to a safe place your last ARC Project before you started using ARC. ARC saves your project in a new ARC format and overwrites your ARC project file. If you saved your old ARC project in a safe place (outside of the ARC folder) then you need to find that again.

I've not rolled back yet but here's what I'd do:

Uninstall ARC from Windows. Make sure you don't delete your old ARC project file.
Once ARC is gone download the latest ARC Designer - Version 2020.01.05.00 from here: Synthiam File Download Page .
Install your downloaded ARC file on your windows computer.
Once you've installed ARC open the program and then open your old ARC Project file that you had saved in a safe place. 

That should do it. Have fun!!

Hi Dave,

Greetings

I have already stored the old ARC project safely, but when i uninstall the ARC and reinstalled the previous version (ARC ARC Beta 2020.01.30.00) the "say PC" script is not working, hence when i opened the Blockly script i got this error message and i am unable to rewrite the script.

Kindly look into the matter and help me.

Regards, Kishore Rao @ Electrofurb

Kishore, the latest ARC update (2020.01.31.00) fixes the issue you were experiencing with Blockly and the variable.

Dear DJ Sir,

Thanks for your support. I hope this will work. I will give you the feedback by morning and i am going to the bed now since it 2.45am in India.

Thanks once again,

Regards, Kishore Rao.

does sayezb(" hello ")  chould also work with a iotiny?

Hi DJ Sir,

Greetings,

The update which you gave is working excellent. Thank you very so much. It is much better and also fast.

Thanks for your prompt response. Have a nice weekend.

Regards, Kishore Rao @ Electrofurb

Great to hear- thanks for the positive feedback. Please let me know of any additional challenges you find with Arc

OK Sir, I will also connect the dynamixels and let you know the results.

Thanks for the great support.

Regards, Kishore Rao @ Electrofurb

The latest release (2020.02.01.01) includes a number of performance and error handling improvements. Also, a much faster loading of the software in general but splitting up a few processes across threads. Anyone using the old mobile interface would need this update because it fixes an issue with the button script that wasn't executing.

@DJ, I don't fully understand, do you mean it updates something for when you create and upload to the  Mobile ARC cloud or do I need to install a new version of Mobile ARC to my phone to fix a bug in that? As that is what I plan to use---After downloading it,the main page does say it wont support ARC projects in Mobile version? So should I not install it if I want to use Mobile builder?

Do not install ARC if you use the ARC Mobile app on a tablet or phone

Do you plan to add ARC support in future Mobile builder in updates? I do like the new ARC ,and can leave it on my super computer but I will just leave the older ARC on my Latte Panda to avoid problems for when I upload to my mobile bulder on the phone,thanks.

ARC Mobile will be available near end of this month to begin beta

That's good news I was a little worried that mobile Builder went obsolete like all the 3d TV's LOL! Good to know,thanks again DJ for your continued hard work!

Mobile interface Builder control is renamed to User Interface Builder. There are no plans for a new Mobile Interface Builder control in ARC. The Mobile App that runs on mobile devices (phones, tablet) is currently called ARC Mobile. However, the mobile app is being renamed to ARC Mobile and will be compatible with ARC projects. To design interfaces on ARC Mobile, you will use User Interface Builder control. It builds interfaces for both Windows and Mobile.

In short, Mobile Interface Builder control is renamed to User Interface Builder control. This is done to avoid confusion in the future just like this conversation

OK so I must be missing something as I updated on both my computers to last version 2020.01.05.00 of ARC windows, On one computer everything works fine except I can't download or save new Mobile programs from the Synthiam cloud. On the other computer I get opposite problem I cant get it to find any of my old projects stored in my documents/projects folder,says it can't find path? But that computer does let me load old mobile programs from the cloud. I tried rolling back to older ARC on both computers but same errors keep happening on both. Is there a way to completely remove all traces of new ARC from system INI folders and have a clean wipe to try again? Possibly like how you talk about that interface builder control possibly not working properly now?

Edit----I remember I had a similar problem last year running windows ARC on the Latte Panda,could not recover project files in my documents folder,to fix it all I did was wait for you to bring out another better Beta version,LOL! So not worried,it will hopefully get sorted out later.

i tested the MG 995 servo on arc.they just go as fast as the HDD from ez robot. just a little less degree.arc works perfect.

Hey nice, So I managed to upgrade my windows 10 on the Latte Panda to a newer version of windows 10 Pro and the very first app I downloaded was that last version of ARC windows before the ARC version. All problems are now magically fixed, I suspect that old windows that came with Latte Panda is now so old and outdated that it has stopped working with many newer programs.I do need to re install the Panda drivers as the touch panel does not work now but that is likely because there is no touch driver yet. Anyway,Woohoo now for some fun robot programming!

Quote:

I suspect that old windows that came with Latte Panda is now so old and outdated that it has stopped working with many newer programs

Anyway, it's always good to have things working 100% fast and true. Good job man!

Hey Dave, yes the new Windows is much better,fixed many problems, I even got the Arduino Leonardo working for first time on the other half of the Latte Panda, some interesting projects can be done there too!

Latest update is online. See the bottom of the first post for changes.

Dj, Thanks for the updated ARC ARC Beta 2020.02.17.00

all the best

EZang

Latest update includes some fixes and enhancements, specifically for supporting some 3rd party plugins

So, can I have both ARC and ARC loaded on my computer same time? I have too many EZB programs I dont want to lose, and yet still be able to create all new ones as needed. Does the ARC work with mobil yet?

You can’t have both installed because ARC essentially is an updated ARC. The mobile isn’t compatible with ARC projects yet. The first post of this release will be updated when mobile has been updated. Stay tuned!

So is the Mobile ARC builder coming out this year then? I am a big fan of using mobile on the robots,I may even buy a google powered tablet just for the robot. The free features of Google store with the many better free TTS voices and TTS apps are far superior to anything on Microsoft windows where you need to pay for anything good. Also the energy saving as the battery will last all day running the mobile scripts with far less problems than running my Latte Panda. Google mobile are designed to run all day without fail on phones and tablets,it is just the better choice for me. Very excited to get a modern updated Mobile builder! -------The only problem I ever had with the old Mobile Builder was that many windows Control plug ins were not supported in Mobile like specially the Sonar Radar animation and ease of use in windows would never work in mobile so It was a long process to manually write the script for object detect,reverse,turn and was not as reliable as using the windows Sonar Radar.There were other app controls that also were not supported that I wished would work but not as big a deal as the sonar.Everything else I could program in windows and then convert and upload as a mobile project or use the mobile Blockly very effective for on the fly robot programming while actually outside and mobile

Thanks for the feedback. The mobile app will be out in a few weeks. We have a few more ARC updates to ensure its solid before porting to mono and mobile

Awesome news! I may be buying a new Google touch Tablet just for Mobile!

ARC Beta has been updated. Changes are documented at the end of the first post. This has many bug fixes and is prepared to be released as stable. All plugins must be updated for this release.

.....um question. Will ARC cost us to use soon? I see "free" listed for some of the plug ins now?! Usually you say "free" to distinguish from "pay" items. That or "free" is being advertised to let the new users of ARC, know that "everything is free so stop asking us how much plug ins cost...."

We're going to allow plugin creators to charge for plugin controls. So someone like PTP can charge a few dollars for his plugin controls. It'll increase quality of plugins and inspire some new awesome ones. Kind of like an appstore model, but with plugin controls. PTP shouldn't be working for free....

I agree..we had discussed that several years ago in a thread. Very happy to see it implemented. I think it may inspire others to produce plug ins too. Great job guys.

Thanks - and great eye on noticing that subtle change. I'm really enjoying Arc. It's bringing a new life to my passion for robotics!

i just notice that the icon synthiam is only half viseble.

Love the new fonts for the website...looking polished!

i notest that the page for update plugings keeps reappearing also after the updates.

You noticed correctly. It appears to check for updates. Disappears if there’s no updates.

error I get loading up ARC I'm loading the J.D. with mpu. Version: 2020.02.28.01

NAudio.MmException: UnspecifiedError calling waveInOpen at NAudio.Wave.WaveIn.OpenWaveInDevice() at NAudio.Wave.WaveIn.StartRecording() at ARC.UCForms.FormMic.EhQ92XYRHKm(Object , EventArgs ) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Never mind my last post. Somehow in the windows privacy settings, microphone access to apps was turned off. Enabling the microphone access has fixed the error.

Great to hear it’s working. Microsoft released an update that changed these settings randomly a while ago. It’s ridiculous that they haven’t fixed it yet... and most ridiculous that there’s no way for a program to query if it has audio permission. So it’s up to the user to guess

Hi DJ - How goes it?

Just to let you know:

I have in my Bing Speech Reognition :  ControlCommand("AimlBot", SetPhrase, $BingSpeech)

When I click run it says: > Error on line 1: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Done (00:00:00.0387558)

In the Aiml Bot I have : Audio.say(getVar("$BotResponse")); thanks

Your AIML bot is missing it's configuration. Either update the plugin, or select the new configuration file. I'm guessing you need to select the configuration folder in the config menu. Change this to...

C:\Users\All Users\ARC\Plugins\aa184830-399a-4716-bdfc-e766fd792a51

ok I will check, thanks - it never made a Plugins folder

all good now, I fixed the code

So I re downloaded newest ARC builder because I had all kinds of errors when using my super fast desktop PC. It was not able to load or save any files and would keep giving error messages,It took me a while to figure out how to add the exception rule to the fire wall in windows Defender settings, now it works correctly. I am wondering now if I use the Bluestacks Android software on the same computer to run  older mobile ARC as a mobile app on the same computer as it is a separate program from the regular windows 10 that contains ARC on it This way I can run both old scripts as mobile or brand new ARC scripts when I switch back to Win 10. (I can run many mobile apps from Google play store on my Win10 PC using Blue stacks Android Emulator) I have not tried adding the mobile ARC because afraid of getting file save errors again. Is this safe to try? On my other Latte Panda computer the Blue stacks and Mobile builder works awesome with my old terminator scripts but I also want to try on my super desktop PC..

Updated ARC with a number of improvements

Yes I can report that I have no more problems and it is much faster!

Updated with several javascript editor improvements

Updated with new add control feature

Updated with a number of improvements and enhancements

Updated with performance improvements

Thank You. I appreciate your hard work. 

@DJ you are quick.

Did you fixed the file lock issue https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/FileReadLine-getting-error-data-is-in-wrong-format-19235 post #30 ?

I can't replicate that issue of locking a file by File.appendStringLine();

There were some changes to File namespace on the 17th. Not sure what version you're running. But the File.appendStringLine() merely ...

    public void AppendStringLine(string filename, string str) {

      System.IO.File.AppendAllText(filename, str);
      System.IO.File.AppendAllText(filename, System.Environment.NewLine);
    }

which is not lock a file.

If you're wondering what files are locked, use this: https://synthiam.com/Products/Controls/General/File-Information-16183

@DJ: I Can't reproduce with the new version.

Please run this code:

var filename="c:\\temp\\lines.txt";
if (File.exists(filename))
{
  File.delete(filename);
}
for (var ix=0; ix<100; ix++) 
{
  File.appendStringLine(filename, "Line " + ix);
}

print("Read lines");
while (!File.isReadEnd(filename))
{
    var line = File.readLine(filename);
    print(">>" + line);
}
File.readClose(filename);

And let me know if works as expected. I'm using the last version.

Perfect - thanks. Fixed for 2020.03.19.00

this message keeps popping up.i dont see a version 2020.3.19.

i also was not able to upload video's here on synthiam.

Updated with a new feature next to Add Control which allows you to create a control in ARC directly. Enter the information and ensure you have Visual Studio installed.

Appreciate your hard work. :-) Thanks DJ

Thanks Steve

synthiam in black color.

Black is a good general background colour.

Unless there is a lot of text to read, then black in white.

At least for this old fart ;-)

haha "at least for this old fart " glad i am not old allone.lolxD

One of the last (if not the last) update before moving to stable

AH! A milestone. Congrats!