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Ripper Wrote:Daily the wife says something like "You left you office light on" , I usually then say "Computer... lights off!" ..of course it doesnt work and I tell her it will one day..she doesnt seem to be laughing at the joke anymore :-)
C-Bus has a VR module that will do just that....or so the glossy brochure says.
I think it uses the Dragon Dictate VR engine to do the grunt work, but I have no idea how well it works.
BTW the way it knows when you want to give it a command, as opposed to the TV confunsing it, is you teach it a name that you prefix all the commands with, so you literally say COMPUTER.... LIGHTS OFF and apparently all the lights go off :roll:
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Until you are watching Star Trek and they say Computer... whatever :-)
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Dean Roddey Wrote:Until you are watching Star Trek and they say Computer... whatever :-)
Perhaps I should call it 'Dean'..... sort of poetic justice really :tounge
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rhamer Wrote:BTW the way it knows when you want to give it a command, as opposed to the TV confunsing it, is you teach it a name that you prefix all the commands with, so you literally say COMPUTER.... LIGHTS OFF and apparently all the lights go off :roll:
Yeah Homeseer does it also and I played with it for a bit..never had plans to integrate it whole house or anything but might be handy in my office.
I think I'd feel like a real nerd if friends were over and I said "Computer..lights off" ....sorta like the nerds wearing bluetooth headsets in a loud nightclub yakking away thinking they are cool and everybody looking at them like they are talking to themselves until they realize they have a headset.
I also owned a bluetooth headset but would never wear it in public and used it at home only until I accidentally crushed it one day..I can see taxi drivers and some others having a definite use for them but the casual guy wearing one reminds me of people from back in the 80's that wore those am/fm radio headsets something like this and thought they were cool...something like the coolness of a big Motorola brick phone :-)
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I have VR in my car, carputer. Works pretty good as long as the music is not too loud.
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My freind had a Clarion AutoPC and it also had VR and worked well when the volume wasnt too loud.
Paul from sbsmarthomes has a neat VR system based on Homeseer using Genter mixers and I've heard a recording somewhere demonstrating him talking to his system..works pretty cool.
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Quote:Paul from sbsmarthomes has a neat VR system based on Homeseer using Genter mixers and I've heard a recording somewhere demonstrating him talking to his system..works pretty cool.
I think though that he also has like $1500 just in VR equipment, right?
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more - i believe the gentner mixer he has is ~$4K
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Maybe it was $1500 in microphones..
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The Genter mixers he has were used from Ebay.. I believe he uses Crown PCM mics and I don't think they are really cheap but then again I don't think one would expect to have reliable VR using $9.99 mics or the type you get free with a pc and usually throw away.
