EventGhost

I've got MisterHouse (another home automation packgage) running on another machine, so I'm messing around with VR on that machine, generating events in EG using the network communications.

MisterHouse knows how to limit the vocabulary available for recognition, so it's got decent recognition levels ...

Is anyone integrating voice recognition into their EventGhost setup? How're are you doing it? Ideally, I'd like to have a limited vocabulary for recognition that kicks off events in EG.

mjw1024 - Have you had any luck getting your Ultrax working with the HID and keyboard plugins? Just curious - looks like a pretty inexpensive RF remote solution.

interesting... it's running now. not sure what's changed. i even rebooted after install to see if that was the issue. i'll keep you posted if i run into any vista issues (with a -debug)

Just FYI: I tried running build 939 in Vista with no luck. I can successfully run it from the command line using the -n switch to send instructions to another machine, but I can't get a GUI. Watching the task monitor, I see EG start, then quit.

I've been using this for about a week, so that my Home Automation server (MisterHouse) can talk to my media PC (running EG). It's working great. Thanks.

i've got that 2nd plugin working OK for now:

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=138883

it makes an HTTP post with a form containing track status info.

it's not gonna be fast enough for thug's .25 second response time, but it's serving my needs. i'll keep an eye out for a notification ...

yeah... it kinda gives me the creeps to think about that process running 4 times a second, all day long. i'm probably over-reacting.

i'm going to experiment with this winamp plugin:

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=141842

[edit: now looking at:

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details ...

pardon my thread hijack... but:

using the winamp plugin to grab a playing song's name, what's the best practice to monitor winamp if I want to, say, display the track name via OSD on track change? is it a bad practice to keep checking winamp and comparing the previous title to the new? is there a ...

Bitmonster wrote: EventGhost.exe -n 192.168.0.1:32333 password MyEvent

This will not starup EG the normal way. It will only send the event through TCP/IP and then leave the program. But you have to install the full EG setup on the remote machine.

Great. Thanks.

I'd like to kick off an EG macro from a remote computer. I'd prefer not to run EG on the remote machine all of the time (and use the Event Sender plugin).

I saw some code in this forum that shows how to write a light client in PHP to handle EG's password handshake/cookie exchange.

Has anyone ...