Here is a little vb5 program to try
Small, but packs a punch................ :-
Let me know what you think!
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'for Microsoft Visuel Basic 2005 Express Edition
'X10Talk By: James D. Steinbrecher
'Copyright (C) 03-15-2007
'Permission granted for personal use - not for sale!
Imports ActiveHomeScriptLib 'Get this at
http://www.activehomepro.com/sdk/sdk-info.htmlPublic Class Form1
Public WithEvents ActiveHomeObj As ActiveHome
Public Path As String = "C:Program FilesVisuel_BasicClocksCallie" 'Where the .wav files are
Public dir As New IO.DirectoryInfo(Path)
Public f As IO.FileInfo
Public File As String = ""
Public HC As String
Public UC As String
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim size As Long
Dim creationTime As DateTime
Dim N As String
Dim S As String
Dim T As String
Try
ActiveHomeObj = CreateObject("X10.ActiveHome")
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex)
End Try
'Create a form and put a richText window on it called: Out
'make the box about 675 x 400 size
'for the instructions and directory to be listed.
'Use Courier New 10 pitch font for directory alignment.
Out.AppendText("Steinie's X10 Verbose Activity Log (C) Instructions:" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("Simply place your .wav files into a folder and set the Path name to it" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("The .wav files needed are:" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("16 files named a - p where the voice simply says the letter" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("16 files named 1 - 16 where the voice simply says the number" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("4 files named: recvplc, recvrf, queryplc and sendrawplc" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("the voice says: receive plc, receive rf, query plc and send raw rf" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("16 files named for the 16 functions where the voice simply says:" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("the function: on, off, bright, dim, allunitsoff, alllightsoff " & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("Up to 256 files named a1 - p16, one for each House and Unit you have" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("the voice says: 'description if your module' " & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("For rf commands you need a voice for all that you use like" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("panleft, panright, CamGoPosition1, CamCenter and FocusUp" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("DONT BE SET-BACK by the number of files used!" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("The program will run with just a few, or none at all!" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("So, play around with it and build your voices as you go...." & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("Note: This PROGRAM MUST BE RUNNING at all times, to function!!!" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("Note: A CM-15 MUST BE CONNECTED TO THE COMPUTER to function!!!" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("Copyright (c) 2007 by James D. Steinbrecher" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("Permission is granted for Free use - Not for sale!" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText(vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText("My wav files are:" & vbCrLf)
Out.AppendText(vbCrLf)
'You can get free .wav voices at:
http://www.blindsoftware.com/cepstral.asp 'or at:
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php For Each f In dir.GetFiles("*.wav")
Name = f.Name
N = Name.ToString.PadRight(25)
size = f.Length
S = Val(size).ToString.PadLeft(15)
creationTime = f.CreationTime
T = creationTime.ToString.PadLeft(25)
Out.AppendText(N & S & T & vbCrLf)
Next f
Out.AppendText(vbCrLf)
End Sub
Sub ActiveHome_RecvAction(ByVal bszRecv As Object _
, ByVal vParm1 As Object _
, ByVal vParm2 As Object _
, ByVal vParm3 As Object _
, ByVal vParm4 As Object _
, ByVal vParm5 As Object _
, ByVal vReserved As Object) Handles ActiveHomeObj.RecvAction
If bszRecv = "recvrf" And vParm3 <> "0" Then GoTo done 'Only want key-down on RF
' Transmission Type: bszRecv names are: recvrf, recvplc, queryplc and sendrawrf
File = bszRecv
Call Playit()
'House and Unit code "A1 - P16" is in vParm1
'HC = letters A-P
HC = Mid(vParm1, 1, 1)
File = HC
Call Playit()
'UC = number 1-16
UC = Mid(vParm1, 2, Len(vParm1) - 1)
File = UC
Call Playit()
'House and Unit Codes for description of your modiles a1 - p16
File = vParm1
Call Playit()
'Functions like: On, Off, Bright, Dim, PanLeft, PanRight
File = vParm2
Call Playit()
'Not using vParm4 and vParm5 and vReserved
'Out.AppendText(vParm4 & vbCrLf & vParm5 & vbCrLf & vReserved)
done:
End Sub
Sub Playit() 'will only play if the file is there!
File = LCase$(File)
For Each f In dir.GetFiles("*.wav")
Name = LCase$(f.Name)
If Name = File + ".wav" Then
My.Computer.Audio.Play(Path + File + ".wav", AudioPlayMode.WaitToComplete)
End If
Next
End Sub
End Class
