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Re: [ECS] Help with Event Stuart Silverman 14 Jan 2001 07:24:56 -0800

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Hi,
First start with the change speak/w. This will keep your speakers hooked up to ecs until
the message is complete. I have something similar to this and If I didnt use /w I would
never hear the message.
Stuart 
On Sat, 13 January 2001, Garren Davis wrote:

> 
> 
> I was wondering if someone could help me with this. 
> I have built hardware that will switch my speakers 
> from the tuner in the front room to an amplifier that 
> I have connected to my sound card. When ECS has 
> something to say it will switch the speakers to the 
> amplifier, speak whatever it needs to say, then 
> switch back to the tuner. The problem is that I 
> cannot get ECS to do that. Below are the Items and 
> a short version of the Event I used to try to get 
> this to work. 
> 
> Basically I want to save the state of all the speakers. 
> (I have 4 sets of speakers around the house. Some speakers 
> will be on and some will be off).
> Then I want to switch all the speakers to the amplifier. 
> Speak the message. 
> Then restore the speakers to their previous state.
> 
> Hardware is easy for me. Software is not. Could someone 
> help me with this Event. The Event does not restore the 
> state of the speakers and I cannot figure out why.
> 
> Garren
> 
> 
> 
> |Item:a                Type:On/Off/Unknown
> Acc:User/User
> |    Initial State:(none)                    Backup:No
> |Item:b                Type:On/Off/Unknown
> Acc:User/User
> |    Initial State:(none)                    Backup:No
> 
> |Item:Voice Message        Type:Text
> Acc:User/User
> |    Initial State:(none)                    Backup:No
> |    Text         :test
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> |Event:    ab                Called ?:No
> |    If    PLC-Command G        Is Now        8
> |    Then    b            Set        a
> |    Then    a            Set        Off
> |    Then    Voice Message        Set        Speak
> |    Then    a            Set        b
> |
> |
> |    End


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