Did your name your HC2/HCL or refer to it by a name ? :-)

[AutoFrank 372]

A bit of fun for a dull january...

 

Did you name you HC2/HCL or do you or family members refer to it by some name besides 'that wretched box' or worse

Be nice

 

Our kids call ours Donimo...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 12, 2017 by AutoFrank

[Kuba13 49]

1 hour ago, AutoFrank said:

A bit of fun for a dull january...

 

Did you name you HC2/HCL or do you or family members refer to it by some name besides 'that wretched box' or worse

Be nice

 

Our kids call ours Donimo...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, but its stupid (i have HC2 on static IP that ends with 66 so i call it that). I even nammed it that on  home.Fibaro.

 

Reading what you have posted over last few months do i correctly assume that you refer to your Fibaro box as "wretched domino"? (because A) that would be interesting name and B) it sounds like comic book villain  name - so even more interesting)

[AutoFrank 372]

6 minutes ago, Kuba13 said:

Yeah, but its stupid (i have HC2 on static IP that ends with 66 so i call it that). I even nammed it that on  home.Fibaro.

 

Reading what you have posted over last few months do i correctly assume that you refer to your Fibaro box as "wretched domino"? (because A) that would be interesting name and B) it sounds like comic book villain  name - so even more interesting)

 

actually the kids call it domino , I just call it "the HC2" and quite happy with it but sometimes it's been called other things

 

[Kuba13 49]

12 minutes ago, AutoFrank said:

 

actually the kids call it domino , I just call it "the HC2" and quite happy with it but sometimes it's been called other things

 

Oh yeah i know that feeling, it only takes one bloody patch that fails and messes up something that you've so delicatly built and things can get *heated* between the unit and the user.

[AutoFrank 372]

5 minutes ago, Kuba13 said:

Oh yeah i know that feeling, it only takes one bloody patch that fails and messes up something that you've so delicatly built and things can get *heated* between the unit and the user.

 

for me that's half the fun and I have a very understanding wife so I don't mind the bumps in the road....

[Kuba13 49]

1 minute ago, AutoFrank said:

 

for me that's half the fun and I have a very understanding wife so I don't mind the bumps in the road....

The joy of discovery, solving puzzle and making your dremt up home come true. i like that aswell.

[Sankotronic 2,370]

We give our HC2 name Angelina since it has nice female voice reading Croatian text with Italian accent  My family get used to her so much that they don't allow me to change her voice. If, God forbid, I screw something up so Angelina became silent, they immediately notice that and then start mocking me

 

Anyway, I don't want to think what will happen if this box suddenly die on us. Probably everyone will shed tears and I will have to organize funeral ceremony  

Just kidding  

[shaunfrost 9]

2 hours ago, Sankotronic said:

We give our HC2 name Angelina since it has nice female voice reading Croatian text with Italian accent  My family get used to her so much that they don't allow me to change her voice. If, God forbid, I screw something up so Angelina became silent, they immediately notice that and then start mocking me

 

Anyway, I don't want to think what will happen if this box suddenly die on us. Probably everyone will shed tears and I will have to organize funeral ceremony  

Just kidding  

 

Angelica also hangs out at my house, but she speaks the Queens English

 

[chaicka 195]

?????Voice?????

 

Sounds like I am missing out on all the fun.

[hoomee 22]

8 hours ago, chaicka said:

?????Voice?????

 

Sounds like I am missing out on all the fun.

 

Yeah, I'm feeling like my life's empty... 

Come on, guys! Please don't let me miss it. What are actually your Angelinas talking to you about?

 

[AutoFrank 372]

1 hour ago, hoomee said:

 

Yeah, I'm feeling like my life's empty... 

Come on, guys! Please don't let me miss it. What are actually your Angelinas talking to you about?

 

For me it's mainly the weather and intwrnal temps as part of our wake up routine and also any house system changes while we were out...

[jimicr 90]

Usually just "The Fibaro" sounds nice. but some times it's called a lot of words that I can't use here... Specially by my wife when I mess up again

Like a few days ago. I embarked on a mission to make a VD and scene to keep track of how many George Clooney cups (Nespresso) we have left. My idea was to surprise my wife and send a push of the cups left to her phone.

I had to reinstall the fibaro app on her phone as it stopped receiving pushes.

For some odd reason the Fibaro started to send push with the cup count EVERY SECOND after a day. When I got home from work that day she started yelling at me even before I got out of the car  .the scene and 

 

Wil post the VD + scene soon

Edited January 14, 2017 by jimicr

[Sankotronic 2,370]

12 hours ago, hoomee said:

 

Yeah, I'm feeling like my life's empty... 

Come on, guys! Please don't let me miss it. What are actually your Angelinas talking to you about?

 

Same as @AutoFrank Angelina wake us up with greeting and weather info, when we go to sleep with status of alarm clock, coffee machine and in general status of our hose, changes of the settings, etc. I'm now rewriting code for TTS notifications so that I can easily add more without needing to code every time.

[jompa68 121]

11 minutes ago, Sankotronic said:

I'm now rewriting code for TTS notifications so that I can easily add more without needing to code every time.

Sounds great, I'm a good beta tester if you want 

[AutoFrank 372]

13 minutes ago, Sankotronic said:

Same as @AutoFrank Angelina wake us up with greeting and weather info, when we go to sleep with status of alarm clock, coffee machine and in general status of our hose, changes of the settings, etc. I'm now rewriting code for TTS notifications so that I can easily add more without needing to code every time.

We also use it to tell us which alarm zones are open when we start away mode and it greets us with the house temp and other info when we arrive back 

[krisstoff 3]

We call ours Lili, but i think that is because we came from having Vera, and it was almost like she was a real person living with us. we always referred to her as if she was a member of the household. 

[sirKitKat 24]

On 12-1-2017 at 9:34 PM, Sankotronic said:

We give our HC2 name Angelina since it has nice female voice reading Croatian text with Italian accent

 

On 12-1-2017 at 11:53 PM, shaunfrost said:

Angelica also hangs out at my house, but she speaks the Queens English

 

13 hours ago, AutoFrank said:

For me it's mainly the weather and intwrnal temps as part of our wake up routine and also any house system changes while we were out...

 

3 hours ago, Sankotronic said:

Same as @AutoFrank Angelina wake us up with greeting and weather info, when we go to sleep with status of alarm clock, coffee machine and in general status of our hose, changes of the settings, etc. I'm now rewriting code for TTS notifications so that I can easily add more without needing to code every time.

 

I also want in on this, I already own a HC2 with several devices. Is there any other hardware needed to make her speak?

And can you give us a "hello world" exampe or redirect us to a thread discussing this?

[AutoFrank 372]

3 hours ago, sirKitKat said:

 

 

 

 

I also want in on this, I already own a HC2 with several devices. Is there any other hardware needed to make her speak?

And can you give us a "hello world" exampe or redirect us to a thread discussing this?

 

My implementation is based on Sonos players to provide the voice (angelina, domino, etc)

There are a number of ways to interface to sonos.

- The plugin that is provided with the HC2 

- Krikroff Sonos Remote VD - 

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- A solution I introduced using a node http api - 

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- A solution by @jompa68 Musiac VD also can TTS

 

The voice comes from leveraging a TTS (Text to Speech) facility that take a string of words you generate through a scene or a VD and 'speaks it out through one of more of your players

 

 

Edited January 14, 2017 by AutoFrank

[Sankotronic 2,370]

2 hours ago, sirKitKat said:

 

 

 

 

I also want in on this, I already own a HC2 with several devices. Is there any other hardware needed to make her speak?

And can you give us a "hello world" exampe or redirect us to a thread discussing this?

 

Hi @sirKitKat,

 

I use @Krikroff Sonos remote VD, VoiceRSS service and some scenes to give Angelina voice. Still working on final solution that will be easily expanded.

[jompa68 121]

1 hour ago, AutoFrank said:

 

My implementation is based on Sonos players to provide the voice (angelina, domino, etc)

There are a number of ways to interface to sonos.

- The plugin that is provided with the HC2 

- Krikroff Sonos Remote VD - 

Please login or register to see this link.

- A solution I introduced using a node http api - 

Please login or register to see this link.

 

The voice comes from leveraging a TTS (Text to Speech) facility that take a string of words you generate through a scene or a VD and 'speaks it out through one of more of your players

 

 

and also Musaic VD can do TTS