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Multiroom recognition
Hello everyone,
I have a question for you. I would like to set something up but I don't know if it exists and if it can be done.
So I explain: I would like to speak to homey in a room and when it replies to me I would like homey to reply me in the room where I speaked.
For that I need in every rooms a microphone and a speaker but how to make the link with homey?
Thanks a lot for your help
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At the moment you need toget extra homey's. These can be link together to preform the tasks. It would be logical that the homey you talk to will be the one that responds.
External microphones/speakers are to developed yet for homey.
Since you can talk to the homey app from places the homey is not, it should not be very hard to create an app that runs on a different device (listening to your voice) and let it control certain events.
You are correct. your comment reminds me:
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/comment/1396/#Comment_1396
But that tread has no answer about location of the tablet/phone on the wall.
I guess the easiest way to do that would be to just provide the location while talking to the homey.
Hey Homey, please turn the lights on in the bathroom.
Hey Homey, please close the curtains in bedroom1.
Would be a little expensive to buy multiple homey's when you can just do the above.
would be cool to add any wifi/bluetooth/app on phone option to place in a different room then the real homey, but that is would have similar functionalities in sound and voice control.
Can i attach a simple microphone to a bluetooth transmitter and connect these to Homey to use speech from an other room? Of course I'll have to say "Hey Homey can you turn the lights of in the x room"
No we've tried that and it worked like shit. Basically, because the trigger has to be heard by Homey, there's always a connection needed. And bluetooth voice quality is really bad, as it's made for telephones. Homeys microphones are a lot better.
A better option is to use an old smartphone with the Homey app continuously listening.
Oke i still have some old smartphones. I will try that when i receive Homey :-)
Cool. Will you make sure that the app can be installed on older iOS versions then?
Emile said: A better option is to use an old smartphone with the Homey app continuously listening.
Wow TOP ***** + Extra sensors * Ambient Light sensor,Proximity sensor,Motion sensor/
accelerometer,Gyroscopen,Kompas.......
I am an ios user myself but I think that an android phone would be better for this. It is cheaper and you can make it allot easier to listen and do other stuff.
Perhaps it's an idea to let the Homey track your GPS and Bluetooth at the same time.
So he makes a cross tracking to see if you are still in the building/house.
Then if the answer of this cross tracking is Yes (in the house) the Homey microphone will be open on your APP.
Perhaps it's possible to have the microphone in passive mode, until he reconize his callsign.
http://www.samsung.com/us/security-and-monitoring/ip-cameras/SNH-P6410BN
or
http://www.amazon.com/Security-System-Vision-180-degree-Camera/dp/B00V0D0URE?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAJ2RTWSYJUOAO3DIA&tag=bom_tomsguide-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00V0D0URE&tzd=21&ascsubtag=[site|tguus[cat|[art|[pid|B00V0D0URE[tid|14526200907467391[bbc|LESPRIX
I've bought a speaker for no more then E. 6.- . It has a microphone and a rechargeable battery embedded and can act as a car-kit as well. If i could pair it to Homey as such, in theory I would be able to talk to Homey from every room/floor, providing that the bluetooth signal is strong enough.
Problem is I lack the skills to programm such an app/function
The "carkit" (maybe we should call it home(y)kit ) which receives the loudest command is the one who should response to start with (maybe can find a better way to detect in which room homey is being called).
I hope they will add this to their feature list