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Servo Jumping On Initialisation

The dreaded jumping servo problem has arisen again - just today. All servos in the robot are HDD. The servo on port D0 now jumps after connecting, to about 35 degrees instead of 90 degrees. If I move the servo manually when turned off, the centre position is still 90 degrees, so the sprocket has not shifted. My INIT script has not changed. That...

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.

Sirius A Mini PC

Has anyone considered the possibility of running ARC on a Ockel's Sirius A ultra small PC? You could attach it to your robot and give it some degree of autonomy. Are the Sirius A's specs up to the job? Looks OK to me.

Play Audio File Via Script

Has anyone managed to get the PlayAudio command to work from a Script on a Tablet? Whilst the FileExists and PlayAudio commands work perfectly on a PC/Laptop, my Samsung Tablet using the Mobile Interface does not seem to recognise these commands. Hence no audio files can be played. This is a major problem, because if I add them to the Soundboard as...

Soundboard PC With ARC Mobile App

Just downloaded the ARC mobile app to my tablet to test my saved cloud projects. I am getting no audio output. All my projects use the SoundboardPC control to send audio to the robot's bluetooth amp or speaker. Is there a problem with the the SoundboardPC control and the ARC mobile app? With the old software the audio played on my tablet without...

Saving To Cloud

What does the following error message mean? I get this message when trying to save my project to the Cloud. My file size is 55Mb whereas Cloud file size limit is 64Mb I thought. The request failed with HTTP status 413: Request entity too large.

ARC Software Unable To Open EZ-Builder Project File

I am now wanting to use the new ARC software that replaces EZ-Builder with which all my projects were created. One of them that took months to perfect, will not open. ARC returns the message "Unable to read project file, as it appears to be damaged or an inappropriate file version. Would you like to delete it?" I tried merging it with a new project...

Sound Servo (PC Speaker)

How do I centre my sound servo to 90 degrees? It is a horizontal servo for a head, set to move between 60 and 120 degrees but always moves to 60 degrees when audio has stopped playing.

Servo Positions On Power Up

I have a problem with the head servos moving into a damaging position when powering up. I have looked at various comments on the problem but haven't found a solution. My vertical head servo appears to move into about -10 on powering up. My INIT script moves it back to 1 but -10 or so is going to break the robot's mouth. An EZ servo can physically...

Bing Speech Recognition

How do I add the Bing Speech Recognition control to my Mobile App Interface? It works so well on my laptop but I cannot find a way of using it in a script for the App interface. Any help would be appreciated.

Soundboard Control

I am wanting to play audio files via the EZ Builder Mobile App on my Tablet - not PC and not through the iOTiny. There doesn't seem to be any way of doing this. I tried utilising the SoundboardPC control and although this worked on the PC, it had no affect when used on my Tablet - audio went to the iOTiny, ignoring the SoundPC control used in the...