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Paradigm504
June 23rd, 2009, 09:40 AM
Dear all Guru and Master,

I am a Electrical student working on a project of Voice Enabled Home Automation. As this is a school project, my professor therefore disallow me to use any existing software/hardware readily available in the market for Home Automation.

I therefore had to start everything from scrape. Regarding the Hardware side, i will use a RF600D/E chip to control the Home applicances (e.g. lighting switch, power point, curtain drawer)

As for the software side, I therefore need the help of your expertist. I need to write a VB program using Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1 to control my RF chipset preferably using the computer Parallel port (no other circuit needed to interface to my RF chipset).

E.g. When i voice out "Turn On Living Room Light", Parallel port pin 1 will turn on and off (Just a 50ms to 100ms of on time will do). The parallel port will be connected to my RF chipset input control which will in turns control my RF switch at remote end.

I am seeking for help to start the source code writing for my program as i had limited knowledge to software programming.

Does anyone has source code that can capature particular Speech pre-save in a string. e.g. "Turn on the light", "Turn on the TV" and give a respond after a current Speech string was received? (For my case, will be trigger the parallel port)

Pls help. Thanks a lot and have a nice day

dglienna
June 23rd, 2009, 10:09 PM
Look up MIDI as a transform medium. It might work better to trigger voice functions. Look into MIcrosoft Robotics as well. They have a Lego Robot

Paradigm504
June 24th, 2009, 03:05 AM
Hihi,

Can you pls elaborate a little pls. I have very little knowledge on programming. What do you mean by MIDI as a medium?

Paradigm504
June 30th, 2009, 05:26 AM
Hi,

Anyone charge to write the source code as able? Pls PM or email me. Thanks

dglienna
June 30th, 2009, 08:34 PM
This might be helpful: http://www.x10.com/activehomepro/activehome-pro.html

nigelthescientist
July 5th, 2009, 04:34 PM
hello Paradigm504, it seems we are doing the same project. Did you make any progress? cause i might be able to help you with the vb part, that part is done for me but i need to connect to the light bulb via the parallel port right now, that part is where i'm stuck. Email me asap nigelthescientist at yahoo.com.

nigelthescientist
July 5th, 2009, 05:02 PM
I need your contact info Paradigm504...

dglienna
July 5th, 2009, 05:43 PM
we don't post email addresses on the forum. if you send a PM, they might get an email notifying them. Otherwise when they log in, they'll see it.

You have to enable PM's for the first time, along with showing Signatures