Parent/child app

[Cobra]

Google amazon polly
You can register for free then make you own to download
That’s what I did

Andy

[bobbles]

Thanks. Will take a peek.

[bptworld]

You can also use webCoRE to play the mp3's. Works great!

[mike.maxwell]

@Cobra

It’s unlikely that any TTS would be local.

Yes, we're using AWS polly, and yes the very first TTS rendering of a given string will have to be fetched from them, but after that it's returned from local cache...

and even the first request is super fast...

[bobbles]

Thanks. I appreciate I can do it with webCoRE.
I just need some mp3 phrases to load on to a RPi (hopefully it will work) and then I'm off and running. (Hopefully. )

[Cobra]

Or.. you could use mp3 event player

[BETA] - MP3 Event Player - Using Sonos Speakers

OK.. as the Sonos integration has been released it's time for an app As I've only had a short time to test this since the integration was released, I'm calling this a BETA Hopefully, when a few more people test it, if everything is ok then I'll mark it as a release. PLEASE if you find any bugs or find it doesn't work for you let me know.. I can't fix what I don't know about This will allow you to play any mp3 hosted on a website, either locally or on the interne…

[Cobra]

Brilliant!

[rayzurbock]

This (post 33) and This (post 35) is still an issue and has stalled the porting of BigTalker.

[rayzurbock]

@rayzurbock

I have tested porting BT2 over and for the most part it worked, but works only in speechSynthesis mode (LANNouncer and other devices that process speech locally on the device). It doesn’t work in musicPlayer mode due to the lack of a textToSpeech() function in the Hubitat platform to translate text to mp3 that can be sent to your device (Sonos, etc) to play…

I need to correct this. The BigTalker2 parent app's TalkNow function works and that's it, until I can resolve the issues mentioned in post 33 and 35.

[bravenel]

I can't tell from your posts exactly what your problem is.

I don't know if references to parent,state.x from a child work, I've never seen that before. All of the apps I know about call methods in parent or child to communicate.

So please be more explicit for me as to just what it is that is not working for you.

[rayzurbock]

Child App:
log.trace("Updating settings (Parent Version: ${parent?.state?.appversion}; Child Version: ${state.appversion}; Group Enabled: ${state.groupEnabled})")

Returns:
Updating settings (Parent Version: null; Child Version: C2.0.2; Group Enabled: true)

Expected:
Updating settings (Parent Version: P2.0.2; Child Version: C2.0.2; Group Enabled: true)
This variable is set in the parent app with the following: state.appversion = "P2.0.2" and ideally should be available to the child app(s).
Instead, the child receives null when it queries this variable (and others) from the parent.

So tests like the following are not working when called within the child app:
Line 980 (referenced in the error below):
return (parent?.settings?.speechModesDefault.contains(location.mode)) //True if we are in an allowed Default mode, False if not

Log shows the following for a BT2 scheduled event:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method contains() on null object on line 980 (onSchedule1Event)

So it appears, a child app is not able to query variables of the parent app. I can do this in the other platform, but not in this one.

[bravenel]

Like I said, I’ve never seen this before. Is it documented in ST or just something that you discovered?

Why don’t you just use a method to return the value? RM does the same thing, but uses a method.

[rayzurbock]

I don't know that it's documented. It does work there though.

I suppose I could try using a method, but BT is thousands of lines of code with several references between parent/child variables, so I'm trying to port with minimal amount of code changes if possible. I'd like to just add a Hubitat/ST detection and adjust minimally as required otherwise things get heavily fragmented and for a free/hobby app with no staff or other help that just becomes a big chore.

[bravenel]

Well, a method is going to work on both platforms.

[rayzurbock]

UPDATE: Resolved.. See post 4 at the link below for the working parent function to return setting/state variables to a child app. I'm sure this could be improved, but it's working for me.

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@bravenel and/or anyone else that may be able to offer advise..

I'm super close on resolving the parent/child variable issue but have run into an issue I am not sure how to resolve. The parent method/function returning data to the child app is mostly working; however dates are being returned as strings and then when compared with timeOfDayIsBetween() an error is thrown. I'm not sure how to detect/cast these to date/datetime.

I'm moving discussion on this particular issue here under a topic of it's own:

Parent function to return settings/state data to child app

Continuing the discussion from here: Parent/child app (post #59 - 63) UPDATE -- Resolved , see post 4 below for the working parent function. I'm trying to get variable data from a parent app into a child app for the child app's logic to use. For the most part, I have the function below working, except I have a parent variable that is a date. The function returns it as a string. I'm trying to find a way to detect that the string should be a date and cast it/return it as such. Any…

[anon61068208]

Do we use the same git hub location for Bigtalker rayzurblock ?

[rayzurbock]

Yes, but use the Hubitat-Dev branch.
https://github.com/rayzurbock/BigTalker2/tree/Hubitat-Dev

It's not currently working with Sonos due to lack of playTextAndRestore() and playTextAndResume() functions in the Hubitat driver. You may be able to port a custom Sonos driver and resolve that.
See this thread for the discussion on that: https://community.hubitat.com/clicks/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.hubitat.com%2Ft%2Fsonos-playtrackandrestore-missing%2F2314&post_id=21686&topic_id=2285

I've had confirmations of it working on some other speakers though. So, if it works for you, please post that info and what speaker and driver you are using.

[anon61068208]

I use LanAnnouncer so this should work then right ?

[anon61068208]

What's the Allow Personality setting rayzurback ?

[rayzurbock]

Yes, but make sure on install that you set the slider to the option for speechSynthesis (slider to the off position I believe)