Tameion

Mqtt Plugin Wont Stay Put

Hey team. Very minor but irritating issue with the displaying of the MQTT client control. When saving and reloading my project the MQTT client control will not stay put on the desktop where it was originally placed. It sometimes loads on desktop 1 yet other times it loads on desktop 2. This causes all the other blocks to layer or fight for position...

Mqtt Client Plugin Bug (Minor)

The MQTT client plugin has a small bug. When configuring the plugin for the first time Var is prefixed to the variables it creates, including the $MQTTClientStatus variable converting it to $VarMQTTClientStatus. Upon re-entering the plugin config, adding another subscription name with associated variable and script, saving and then exiting the...

Phraseshow / Phrasehide

Do we have any movement on the Phraseshow / Phrasehide issue or has the command been depreciated? Its just that I use it a lot in my projects and was just wondering. - Tameion

Voice Broken After Win10 Anniversary Update

Anyone out there have their 3rd party voice broken by the Win10 Anniversary update?

Waitforspeech

Hi Team, I may have identified a small bug with the WaitForSpeech command. The command works fine when coding inside a script manager console but fails to work outside the editing environment. I have also tried this inside a stand alone script window Both methods hang with a partially drawn dialogue box with Waiting for Speech... visible. It...

Ok Who Changed Things While I Was Gone?

Its been a while since I had time to work with my bots and when I recently updated my software lots of things broke! For example commands with parenthesis no longer allow for a space... Eg. Speak_(Hello) is now Speak(Hello) Now I can fix that easily enough... but what happened here: $Volume=$Volume-25 if ($Volume=lt;5) $Volume=5 endif...

Pushvar - Error: Invalid Namespace Or Cell

Hey Team While I can successfully get PushVar to work using the exemplar in ARC I cant seem to get it to work with my Username... This works... 10 # Send a random value to the DJ Sures public quot;testquot; cell on the EZ-Cloud 20 $rand = GetRandomUnique(0, 10) 30 PushVar(quot;DJ Suresquot;, quot;testquot;, $rand) This does not... 10 # Send a...

Word Is Spreadding

Have a look at this link .... especially the components list at the bottom! www.hello-robo.com/#!poly/c22nj

$Update_Available

@DjSures here is an idea for a future update that shouldnt take too much to implement... What about expanding on the CHECK FOR UPDATE function so an auto check facility can be included in the preferences section. OR even better could there be an automatic check at startup with the result stored in a variable something like...

Sending Udp Commands

Is there any way to send a UDP command from within ARC? I have some Limitlessled wifi lights I would love to control. Anyone got any insights? Examples of how thhey did it.... etc?

Something Broke.

Hey team... FYI - The download link not working... @ Tameion

Speech Recognition Files

Ive been using a laptop with Vista Home and EZ-Robot for 18 months or more now and the voice recognition is accurate and stable. As EZ-RObot moves away from Vista I am of course wanting to upgrade to Win8 but am not keen to have to retrain voice.... Anyone come across a way to migrate the voice recognition files?

Keyboard Input

Had an idea.... With the keyboard being replaced by voice commands and the increasing likelihood of us being able to put a PC on board our bots I was thinking about ways to improve the sensor grid and make it a bit more advanced than the few micro switches and wires we use at present. Are we able to take input in from the keyboard into our ARC...

Print The Character To A File

Hi all... Can anyone tell me how to write the double quotation mark to a file...? I can do this ... FileWriteLine($filename, quot;quot; ) But I cant do this... FileWriteLine($filename, quot;quot;quot; ) Heres what Im doing... I have one EZB project called Lawrence that runs on three different computers in two separate geographical locations,...

Using ARC Behind A Proxy And Firewall

Our school uses a Proxy Server that requires authentication to access.... I would guess that most schools do the same. DJ I have started this thread so I can get our schools technical support involved in this one. They should join this thread sometime soon.

Hexapod Dome

Hey @DJSures Have started a robotics club at my school with 10 big eyed students and those 5 EZ-Bs I purchased last year... Weve started hacks to the Robosapien, a RC Jeap and a number of Cybots... they have sure come in handy... Pole position however goes to Red Six, your hexapod printed on our Makerbot Replicator Dual 3D printer using bright red...

Feature Requests

@djsures Any progress on extending the displayed waitforspeech menu from 4 to ten-ish and reducing font size? And I would love to have a dedicated variable that indicated if a software update was available on the web so my BOT can advise me..... I know there is a block available but the bot telling me itself would be cool!

Omnibot

Looking for an Omnibot? I found this mint condition model online... www.trademe.co.nz/toys-models/radio-control/robots/auction-619723322.htm (This is just FYI.... I am not associated with this in any other way.)

Filereadline Command

Hi I have been storing my variables in a csv file and saving them at program exit and re-loading them again at program start. Somewhere along the line of updates the following line of code seems to have stopped working for me ... $txt = FileReadLine($filename) I keep getting Invalid expression construction: location, tablet. Now the location,...

Proxy Server Authentication

Hey DJ Been off the grid for a bit ... went and brought a new house and had to pull 10 years of living apart to shift ... most things are in storage but I am getting back into it.... cant complain as I now have a real workshop to really get into building Lawrence. Ive introduced my students to EZ-Robot and they are loving it.... we even printed our...

Serious About Getting A Tomy Omnibot

It would be a bit far to ship but if youre a NZ builder check out this Trademe listing for an Omnibot www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=608133708 The dome is glossy and everything! Just perfect for an ARC mod! @Tameion

Wireless And Bluetooth Flagging

Hi Team Does anyone know of an app that watches for Bluetooth devices as they come in range? My thinking is that most people have a phone in their pocket with the wifi or bluetooth switched on why not use this to identify them to the robot. If there was a way of reading the MAC of the device and alerting the robot... or writing the info to a csv...

Impressed!

Well done on the new front end for the website.Particularly liked the fresh colours and new heading banner. Big ups too on the sight search link at the bottom of the page.... made it much easier to find past postings... etc. Again well done DJ and team.

Stating The Time

Tidied up the time routine a bit to include AM and PM and some other stuff... Enjoy! #________________________________________________ Print (+---------------------+) Print (| Announcing the time |) Print (+---------------------+) # say(The time is ) IF ($hour12) $hour_word=$hour-12 $hour_word+: ENDIF IF ($Minute = 0) Say ($hour) goto (AM_PM)...

Fantastic Customer Service

After four months @DJSures, last Tuesday, I had finally saved up enough $NZ money to order three more EZ-B boards including shipping. Why so long to save... You see my wife and I for the sake of marital bliss agreed to give ourselves $25 each a week and call it our happy money... We do what we like with it and dont have to feel guilty when we spend...

Saywait Command Not Releasing

I have been using the SayWait command for a bit but notice since my last update that it is not releasing the hold it puts on recognition after it has finished speaking. Example: SayWait(Hello, I am a robot) I speak my command and my bot responds but then refuses to recognise any others. There are not warnings or errors in the de-bug.... Have i...

Window Priority

It is brilliant how the Waiting for speech window opens on the screen I am currently working on but sometimes it remains behind ARC and I have to go hunting to find it. Can we have an option to always have it on top?

Waiting For Speech

Hi @DJ Sures Not sure if I have already posted on this on or not but I could not find it using the search function in the forum.... anyway When using the waitforspeech command I am presented with 4 lines from the list of commands that that I have entered that my bot is waiting to hear. I was wondering if you could extended this list to show all the...

Automatic Load And Unload Scripts

@DJSures As my projects get larger I am thinking it would be easier if I could automatically close one project file and load another from within a EZ-Script. We can already auto start a script at application start-up but could this functionality be extended to load and execute a preselected project from within a script? My thinking is this... While...

Split Function Query

Hi Dj Sures... Ive been playing around with the split function for the last couple of days writing an automated announcement routine that simply reads from a long list of dates with attached comments so that my bot can remind me of birthdays, etc. While doing so I noticed an interesting behaviour with the SPLIT() function. It seems that when I...

Update Checking From Ez-Script

Is there any way to check or a software update from within EZ-Script? I would love to have my bot tell me.... Master Wayne, the Great Maker has updated my software. I guess I would like my bot to check daily so as not to put too much pressure on the website... and if I really wanted to get carried away then my Bot could downloaded and save the...

Reducing Noise Levels

One thing that bugs me is the level of noise generated from servos, etc.... it reminds me how artificial our creations are.... Has anyone managed to do much work with reducing noise... pneumatics perhaps... ? Other forms of mechanics?

Comparing Dates

Hi All I am trying to write a script that loads a text file and announces messages.... Eg. $Start_Date,$End_Date,$Message 12/11/2013, 12/16/2013, Concert in the Park this week Etc. Problem I have is that EZ-Script runs a calculation on the dates so that they become month divided by Day divided by year... So as a work around I separated the date...

Data Read Function

Hi DJ Sures... @DJ Really been enjoying scripting over the holiday period.... even took my EZ-Bee with me to the beach to work on in the evenings... (Its peak of the summer here in NZ!) Anyway I have a function request for the things to do list. The read from file is awesome and great for larger volumes but I think it would be good to also be able...

Simple Greeting Script

Heres a little script to save you some time.... Hopefully the first of many.... #------------------------| # Simple Greeting Script | #------------------------| Print (+------------------------------------------------+ ) Print (| Responses = Good Morning, Afternoon or Evening | ) Print (+------------------------------------------------+ ) IF...

Confirming A Human Response

This is one of my most used scripts. It is often called after my robot asks a question that requires a verbal response. Positive responses = Yes, Affirmative, True, Okay, Correct Negative responses = No, Negative, Incorrect, False, Wrong Undecided responses = Maybe, perhaps, possibly It converts the various answers to either Yes, No, Undecided or...

Face Recognition Script

When I ask for input for one reason or another from a human I use this script to check before I have my robot speak It returns a $Face_Found=1 (YES) if it finds a human after about 5-10 seconds. # ----------------------------------------------| # Visual Confirmation of Human Presence | # ----------------------------------------------| Print...

Feeding The Fish

This one was written before I was the awesome automatic EZ-B fish feeder @Jstarne It needs the Confirmation script I posted earlier in the forum. #______________________________________________________ #init $Requests=0 $Response=0 Say(Have you fed your fish today?) ControlCommand( Script Manager, ScriptStartwait, Confirmation ) :start if...

Stating The Date

Just a small improvement on saying the date so that it includes 1st, 2nd and 3rds and ths as well.... Print (+---------------------+ ) Print (| Announcing the Date | ) Print (+---------------------+ ) IF ($day=1 or $day=21 or $day=31) $day_txt=$dayst goto (Say_date) ELSEIF ($day=2 or $day=22) $day_txt=$daynd goto (Say_date) ELSEIF ($day=3 or...

Qr Codes

Had a thought last night... DJ Would it be possible for the glyphs and their recognition to be upgraded to work with QR Codes? Perhaps even have the code loaded into a string... Webcam would have to be fairly good resolution ... but if a cellphone can do it....

Joining Motor Shaft To Wheel

I am struggling to work out the best way to connect the shaft of a motor to a wheel... seems I can do most other things but this.... can anyone point me in the right direction? Im fine with servos and their horns but not with the larger motors... - Wayne

Linking With Arduino

Hi all... I am reluctant to bring up this subject again in the earshot of so many devoted fans of EZ-Robot.... but I need a solution to an irritating problem Before I stumbled on the awesomeness that is EZ-Robot I had purchased a number of Arduino resources for teaching students at my school. Trouble was they required quite a step up for...

EZ-Mini Question

Has their been any news about the release of the smaller v4 ezi-B board? Is it worth waiting a bit longer to get the newer, smaller model EZI-B ? - Tameion

Option To Invert Display On Digital

Hi DJ Sures. We have a flood of relays on the market that are turned ON when a data line is brought LOW. See http://www.trademe.co.nz/electronics-photography/other-electronics/other/auction-515915060.htm The only down side of these cheap boards it that when I brown out my EZ-B and it drops the Bluetooth connection everything turns on... (My fault...

Pausing Speech Recognition

Is there any way to pause speech recognition in ARC while the bot is using the SAY command? EZ-B is so good a recognition that it is picking up the words inside my sentences and mistaking them for commands. I know I could choose my sentences better ... and for that fact my commands ...but... Eg. My Commands for lights are Lights on Turn the Lights...

Executing A Remote Script

A little puzzled here lads and lasses Just working on a local and remote copy of ARC for my workshop project. While I can execute remote changes in a data line from my copy of ARC on the PC in the study how do I execute a remote script on the robot? I cant seem to get it do it.... Hmmmm. Ideas anyone?

Dual Input Power Supplies

Im looking for a premade (manufactured) power board/regulator that I can use in a docking station type synario where the robot comes to home base, plugs into the docking station, and then switches from its battery power sourse (internal) to the docks supply (external). Switching from one to another via relay seems a bit messy in terms of bounces or...

Windows Home Server

My EZB and I are sitting looking decidedly pale without a little bit of blue in our mutual existances...(Mine is a passion for the cheese - lol) Why ... because I have spent the last couple of days setting ip the master computer to act as the central hub for my robot army... (Vicky lol) only to find WHS (Windows Home Server) does not natively...

Comparing String Variables

Cant seem to find an example of string variables being compared in EZ-Script $A=Apple $B=Apple if ($A=$B) say (Theyre the same) if ($A$B) say (Theyre not the same) Am I looking at this the wrong way or what?

A Thought For The Next Update

Hey DJ Sures... Just a cosmetic suggestion and certainly nothing critical but could you add the ability to display a JPEG image of the users choice into ARC software? I would like to display a picture of the robot associated with each particular EZB board... or a thumbnail at least. Kind of like in your latest update with the motion scripts and...

Character Strings In ARC

I can find variables in ARC for playing around with numbers but not for playing around with character or variable string arrays.... Eg. MyName$=Burt YourName$=Human Reply$ = (Hello + YourName$ + I am + MyName$) Say (Reply$) Can anyone help me? Or does this fall into the domains of VB or C#?

Deleting From The Ez-Cloud

Accidentally saved my example to the cloud - twice... cant seem to find where I delete the additional copy. Any suggestions or DJ Sures can you delete it? See bottom of Cloud examples ... the AI Navigation is extra and the title miss leading.... Thanks

Windows Home Server

Hi all, Just been given a copy of Windows Home Server (Origional) and as I have not been able to get XP Home to work with the voice recognition I thought Id install Windows Home Server.... Has anyone used this with the EZ-B? Any EZ-B compatibility issues known?

Connecting To The Other Stuff

Before the age of enlightenment, my discovering EZ-Bot and all the wonder that it holds, I invested my hard earned savings in Arduino... here after mentioned only as the A word. Anyway those days of tedious slaving over the As are almost gone and they gather dust looking small and unintelligent in the corner. But the dollars spent on boards and...

Proxy Authentication

Hey DJ Sures... My students are lovin using my EZ-B... (Notice the MY) It works great using the connect to other instances of EZ-B via IP... students can work on our one project around the classroom. Only drawback is I have to fight them for access but I am planning to get the mini boards when they are released and get students working on their own...

Managing Connection Failures

Hi team.... A question for the masses.... is there any way for me to find out if a bluetooth connection to a particular EZ-B board has been dropped? I would like to script a reconnection attempt when a connection is dropped just in case the board has had a momentary brownout.... due to a power fluctuation. Or, heres a thought, installing a return...

Small Undocumented Change That May Catch Ya Out

FYI everyone Two commands Exec (c:\windows\notepad.exe) Browser(http://www.google.com) no longer seem to require the speech marks eg. Exec (c:\windows\notepad.exe) Browser(http://www.google.com) Took me a while to work out but all good. Great for showing a household automation homepage or directory eg....

Extending The Exec Browser Commands

DJ Sures, the Browser Exec commands are awesome ... I can use it to have the house system launch an email or make a skype call... etc. or tell Lawrence (My version of Ironmans Jarvis) to start a word document as I walk in the door and have it open ready to type by the time I sit at my desk. Can I make a suggestion that would open up some further...

Launching External Apps From Ez-B

Hi team Here is a script that I can get to work inside EZ-B on its own but when I call it from within the Speech Recognition block I get an Remoting is not supported for this control error. Any ideas...? Here is the C# code I am using... - Wayne ___________________ using System; using System.IO; using System.Windows.Forms; using EZ_B; namespace...