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RE: [ECS] TTS question A.J. Griglak Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:41:18 -0500

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:41:18 -0500

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Interesting... I just use a winamp:power item which is of type on/off, which
I use in a similar fashion.  Does your event recognize if you go to winamp
and click on the stop button?

Also, I've tracked down the 'Please respond in 15 seconds'.  Because of
something Michael said, I realized it was part of the Keypad-3 Session event
that is part of example.cfg...  I didn't even know it was there  ;-)  I also
just switched all my news, weather, and winamp stuff to housecode C - that's
the reason it started piping up about the 15 seconds.  I thought it was an
internal thing with the TTS - had no idea that it was part of an event
[sheepish grin]

-=A.J.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Scott Reston [mailto:scott@therestons.com]
  Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:05 AM
  To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
  Subject: RE: [ECS] TTS question


  another tip - i've found it handy to create a custom item type called
"winamp" with states such as play, pause, next, previous...

  then i've got one event that says...
  if winamp is now play
  then winampPlay set execute
  if winamp is now pause
  then winampPause set execute


  i've also got a state of 'idle' and finish the event with

  do winamp set idle

  so that i don't have to worry about getting out of sync if i control
winamp through something other than ECS. (for example, if i had set winamp
to play, then stopped it externally, setting winamp to play again wouldn't
trigger "winamp is now play" since it already WAS set to play....)



  scott reston
  scott@theRestons.com
  http://theRestons.com/scott/

  --Original Message Text---
  From: David Kindred
  Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:50:17 -0500

  A.J.,

  If that's the case, take a look at the EXECUTE command. You'd need to set
up text items for each of the WACTRL commands you'd want to use (i.e. One
would be "WACTRL PLAY", another would be "WACTRL SHUFFLE", etc.) To make
WACTRL do what you'd want it to, you'd just set the text item to EXECUTE.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Reston [mailto:scott@therestons.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:05 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: RE: [ECS] TTS question

another tip - i've found it handy to create a custom item type called "winamp" with states such as play, pause, next, previous...

then i've got one event that says...
if winamp is now play
then winampPlay set execute
if winamp is now pause
then winampPause set execute


i've also got a state of 'idle' and finish the event with

do winamp set idle

so that i don't have to worry about getting out of sync if i control winamp through something other than ECS. (for example, if i had set winamp to play, then stopped it externally, setting winamp to play again wouldn't trigger "winamp is now play" since it already WAS set to play....)



scott reston
scott@theRestons.com
http://theRestons.com/scott/

--Original Message Text---
From: David Kindred
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:50:17 -0500

A.J.,
 
If that's the case, take a look at the EXECUTE command. You'd need to set up text items for each of the WACTRL commands you'd want to use (i.e. One would be "WACTRL PLAY", another would be "WACTRL SHUFFLE", etc.) To make WACTRL do what you'd want it to, you'd just set the text item to EXECUTE.

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