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judetf
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A la Nadler, I am now controlling iTunes from a KPL. I thought I would share the following, which has made it much easier (and simpler) to do this than I could using just iTunes.
http://www.maximized.com/freeware/ScriptsForiTunes/
The site has a set of iTunes vbs scripts that give (IMHO) a broader, more powerful way of controlling iTunes. With simple single-line 'Launch App' PH macros, I can point to any of the scripts and get great control over iTunes.
If you use iTunes you might want to check them out...
jtf
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cox181
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I have installed the scripts in the itunes folder, but how
do I execute them using powerhome? For a test run I used a
command called TALK with sytax "test", action type "raw
formula" and action-- ph_runscript_0(1, "C:\Program Files
(x86)\iTunes\Scripts\PlayPause", "PlayPause")
The command executes when I give it the voice command, but
nothing in my itunes happens. Am I even executing the
script file correctly? How do I execute it using a 'Launch
App' PH macros??
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dhoward
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Taylor,
First, make sure you've enable the script server. I believe its disabled by default. In the PowerHome Explorer, navigate to PowerHome|Setup|Preferences and make sure that "Load Script Server" is checked. If you make any changes in the "Setup" area of PowerHome, you must restart or reinit for the changes to take effect.
Once the script server is loading, I would first verify your scripts run by opening the PowerHome Multi-Editor (under maintenance menu) and switching to Script mode (shift-F1). Load your script and try executing it from within this window to verify no errors. Once that is successful, switch to PH Formula mode (shift-F6) and try the ph_runscript_0 command to verify that you can launch via PH.
"Launch App" in macros is to launch an executable file from PowerHome and would be the equivalent of the ph_run command. You definitely want the ph_runscript_X functions to run scripts.
Dave.
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cox181
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@Dave
I have succesfully upgraded to 2.1.4 and have everything
running except when I enable script server and then reinit
I get "An error occurred while creating the script server:
-2"....I have seen this in some other threads, but what are
the steps I should try and take to resolve this error?
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judetf
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That's actually not how I get the scripts to run. My iTunes macros in PH use two different approaches (I confess not to remember why, but I can figure it out if necessary). Here are two examples:
Macro command is Launch App and Formula =
'wscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\Scripts\stop.vbs"'
Macro command is Formula and Formula =
ph_run('wscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\Scripts\playplaylist.vbs" ": Good Mix"')
Both of these work perfectly well. I have an Insteon keypad that can start iTunes and launch my playlist, pause and restart a song, skip to the next song on a playlist, and cycle through 3 designated playlists.
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cox181
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@Judetf. Thank you very much. I have it working perfectly
now with the second command you gave. How do you have
your macros setup? Do you just have them under a "Main"
grammar under the voice section in the powerhome setup
voice submenu? And have a formula for each command with a
button attached to each one? Have you ever used voiced
control to execute the itunes commands? Would there be a
way to program it so that I could say play song and then
have the "virtual assistant" ask for a song and then I
would say the song title and it would be played? Or do
the voice recognition and text to speech not have the
ability to ask questions and then store the result as a
variables? Any of your knowledge would be great.
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judetf
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I don't have any voice recognition going on with PH. These are all just normal PH macros which are called via triggers from the designated keypad buttons.
Again, not knowing anything about voice recognition, I can't tell you. You can (I think) use the iTunes scripts to play a specific song though. So, I imagine that if you could use the voice recognition to capture the name of the song as a local variable, you could then pipe that local variable into the macro formula to get what you want.
Hmm, but now that I'm looking at the 'play' script, you have to provide the full path to the track you want to play. So unless all of your MP3s are in a single folder (ie, not subfolders) you may be out of luck, since you have to give the script the _full_ path to the song.
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