Over all goals: turn lights, fans on/off (dim if possible) and addressable music-movies with voice command.
I would hate to give up my CURRENT system. Each day I set my media truth table... what's on & off and current volume level) then I run everything with apps (a lot of nice macros that can pull up various music play lists and call specific channels and movies... hoping to add additional 'movies stored as 'example.iso' and 'songs.mp3' stored on a drobo5n (and used as a big networked media hard-drive). After a request is made, the database turns on and off the needed devices calls up the requested media (with occasional error as IR commands and X10 commands are occasionally missed or ignored). Then there is an issue of being in bed and making requests on my media server as reclining quads and universal remotes are clumsy tasks. (I have been using cheap but nifty icon-remotes with learning capability from x10.com but are no longer available (their keys would break down after a year or so but were so cheap I'd always keep a spare). Alexa is very responsive and since all I really need to do is send specific commands to com ports to trigger lights, fans, and pc to ir linc commands. I'd hate to trash all my smart macro's via fox-pro that make descisions based on my truth table. I thought the IFTT stuff looked the most likely to DIY any solutions for tasks and future add-ons. Gary -----Original Message----- From: Ted Roche [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: alexa to database Hi, Gary: Good to see you back here again. My first reaction was that it seems like a lot of connected parts to get the results you need: you talk to the Amazon Alexa, it digitizes your speech up to Amazon's speech processing, where it parses it and performs some action, like adding an item to your To-Do list. That triggers an IFTTT rule, that recognizes the event, and does... what? Some kind of thing that can get back to the FoxPro app running on your computer. Those last two steps are pretty fuzzy for me... FoxPro could parse an email message, or post to a web server, or some kind of web service "poke" like and XML-RPC, SOAP request or other transaction, but that's going to require a lot of infrastructure for you to develop and maintain. What do you have already running for internet-facing services? I can see you're running Outlook 15, so that's one possibility. Do you host a local web server? (If not, it's WAY too much work to set one up, imo.) On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Gary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys. Haven't done much in a while but I need your genius advice now. > This quadriplegic is controlling my heating, airconditioning and > living room with a foxpro database. I send messages via com port to an > old (obsolete but still working) stargate system to run my x10 light > and fan switches. I have another usb to com port sending commands to a > pc to ir linc to send all my remote signals. This system includes 600 > cd's and 600 dvd's all cataloged on line. It lets me call up fancy > jukebox views (about 10,000 songs) and or pick and play any of 600 > movies with 1-key touch. Eventually I want to stream movies (.iso) and > more music (mp3's stored on a Drobo 5n, but for now... > > I just got alexa (amazon's echo) and I want to build voice control > over everything. Could go insteon, Logitech or some other pretty > pricey alternatives... but does anybody think I could build up an app > with IFTT and get foxpro to catch the requests via cloud? > > Gary Jeurink > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
