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jjtbsomhorstjjtbsomhorst Member
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Hi, 

I'm currently trying to build an app that requires me to let Homey ask the user several questions after each other. I'm currently running into an issue where the second question's callback is triggered without a result ( and no error ) before I have time to answer it. 

My gues is that the callback of the previous question is triggered becuase the timeout of 10 seconds has expired. I have the following pseudo code


Homey.manager('speech-input').ask('Vraag 1',function(err,result){
   Homey.log('asking first question');
   Homey.log(result); 
   if(result != ""){
      Homey.manager('speech-input').ask('vraag 2',function(err,result){ 
        Homey.log('Answer to second question');
        Homey.log(result); 

     });
   }
});

What happens is the following |

- asking the first question
- answer 1
- asking the second question
- 

In other words the last answer is directly returned as an empty string and I can not answer it myself. Is this a bug? And if not how to solve?

Comments

  • casedacaseda Member
    Try using a different variable name inside the second ask call (so not result)
  • jjtbsomhorstjjtbsomhorst Member
    edited October 2016
    Does not work. The following code executes almost instantly the second ask callback instead of waiting for user input

        Homey.manager('speech-input').ask('Yum Yum??',function(err,result1){
            if(result1 != "" && result1 != null){
                Homey.log(result1);
                Homey.manager('speech-input').ask('Yam Yam?',function(err2,result2){
                    Homey.log(result2);
                });
            }
        });

    I noticed that the led ring is also orange (and stays that way) after the question sequence has started. 
  • casedacaseda Member
    edited October 2016
    and what if you take the 2nd question outside of the 1st ones' loop:

        Homey.manager('speech-input').ask('Yum Yum??',function(err,result){
            if(result){
                Homey.log(result);
                asksecond(result); // you can leave the result out of here if you don't need it in 2nd question
            }
        });
        var asksecond = function (result1) {
            Homey.manager('speech-input').ask('Yam Yam?',function(err,result){
                Homey.log(result);
            });
        };


  • jjtbsomhorstjjtbsomhorst Member
    edited October 2016
    When I ask the second question directly that answer is also returned. But when I wait a bit the result is empty and I can't answer the question anymore. I'm using the /manager/speech-input page now to test but in a real situation I would expect the user to wait a bit before answering and therefore this second question will always fail
  • casedacaseda Member
    and what if you add a small timeout (delay) to the 2nd call?
  • jjtbsomhorstjjtbsomhorst Member
    something like settimeout? or 
  • casedacaseda Member
    yeah, that's what i mean with a timeout
  • jjtbsomhorstjjtbsomhorst Member
    Just did some testing with timeout and stuff but nothing seems to be working. Maybe someone from Athom can help us out here?

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