Thread: Auto switch to Guidance screen for iG?

Originally Posted by Chuck

Works well

It might be better if you use a different command then “GPS” so you could do other stuff too.

SendCommand($My_Hwnd, $hwnd_RR, "GPS")

SendCommand($My_Hwnd, $hwnd_RR, "AUTOGPS")

“AUTOGPS”,”BYVAR;GPSFULLSCREEN;GPS<<GPSFULL”

i was just thinking this. having a command that you can define urself in exectbl.ini would make it more flexible.

I agree 100% that it needs to be a .ini setting. This was just a test, and I will incorporate pulling a line from an ini in the near future. Glad to see that it is somewhat working on other systems for sure! That alone is promissing, and hopefully a good start.

As for it not switching to the IG every time.... Not sure what that could be as of yet. It should not bee too processor intensive. It "polls" the iGuidance screen every half second. On my 3Ghz machine, it never goes above 2-3% CPU usage when the script is running. This could however be another INI setting, the time interval the script polls iG.

Right now, I have to get away from the computer for a while, I'm getting BUG EYED!! Will work on it more later this evening.

JWPG
Good work there. Sorry I didn't get back to you regarding to IM as I don't (can't) use one where I am at now.

Anyway, I already have the Guidance screen detect and switch to GPS mode and switch back to lastscreen. Work well without slowdown the system as my previous method.
The next thing I'll do is detect when iG given voice direction and pause curent player. And resume when voice is gone.
I'll probably have a beta release today. This will work with both version of iG 2.x and 3.0 as well as iGnative or not.

This does not seem to be working for me unfortunately...Maybe because my ig is iguidanceUMPC.exe?

Hi there!

I'm having problems getting it to work 2...
running latest RR, IG 2.1.2UK and freedom skin, I started the file and at first it was paused in the tray so I started it, ran RR and IG in demo mode but it didn't matter what screen I was on it never switched to IG when it was showing that screen... it just turned up the volume as usual...

Alright guys, those who want the beta PM me your email address.
The code is base on offical Oct 8 release of RoadRunner .
What does this beta has?
- Fixed the problem with switching between VIDEO and DVD when using build in Video player and MPC for DVD. Currently, you can't do that. This issue brought up before but I am busy and lazy to release it for Oct release.
- Auto switch to iGuidance GPS screen (use GPS command) when iG's Guidance screen come up, and on voice direction.
- Auto switch back to LAST screen X seconds after voice finish or Guidance screen disappear.
- Option to pause/resume current player (via PAUSE and RESUME command) on voice instruction. I found that pause and resume music isn't an idea if voice instruction is on every couple seconds, especially when there is a DING sound, but you guys can try.
- This mod should work with iG 2.x, iG 3.0, and iGUMPC 3.0 regardless of iGnative is set to true or false.

To use:
Modify RR.ini to include the following setting.

lastscreenswitchtime=[0-10]
Default is 0. How many seconds for RR to switch to Last screen after Guidance screen disappear or Voice instruction finish. 0 to disable auto switch to Last Screen (You manually hit whatever screen you want or stay in GPS screen). Default is 0 => Stay in GPS screen.

pauseonvoice=false
Default is false. If set to true, RR pause current player via PAUSE command and resume when voice instruction is finished.

gpsonvoice=true
Default is true. When set to true, RR will automatically switch to GPS screen (if not already in). And depend on lastscreenswitchtime, RR will switch to last screen or not.

RR will always switch to GPS screen (if not already in) when Guidance screen come up.

Also, Open you mixer and adjust the volume on WAVE so that the level is at least 5% different from iGuidance volume level. This is a must for Voice detection to work. Also make sure NO other external player (WinDVD, PowerDVD) trying to change the volume to about the same level as iG.

Note: Anyone use any custom command to load iGuidance, make sure you add/modify it in Exectbl.ini to have "GPS" execute that custom command.

Let me know if there is any bug.

JohnWPB, I am sorry if this release seem to conflict with what you trying to do. Seriously, I really don't like the idea of having autoIt scripts running fulltime with the system.

Is there a way to turn on and off the auto switch with out restarting RR?

Will this go to last screen if you go to GPS manually and want to stay there?

MatrixPC: how are you testing to see if iG is speaking? as in the actual code because i already know how to test it with the demo mode

I think it would be a good idea to activate commands instead of RR doing the switching screens. That way all users could change stuff to do it the way they want or standard way.

So if the new stuff would just Activate "IGAUTOGPS" and "IGAUTOGPSEXIT"

Standard way
"IGAUTOGPS",”GPS”
"IGAUTOGPSEXIT",”LASTSCR”

Or the way I would do it.

1 a way to turn on and off .
2 a way not to go to last screen if you go to GPS manually.
3 a way to go to the GPS full screen or standard GPS.

/,65A--------------------GPS Auto Switch Screen--------------------------
"IGAUTOGPS","BYVAR;AUTOGPSSW;<<AUTOGPSYES"
"AUTOGPSYES","SETVAR;GOGPS;0",EXTERNAL_GPS.ski n
"AUTOGPSYES","BYVAR;FULLSCRN;GPS<<GPSFULL||SETVAR; GOGPS;1"
"IGAUTOGPSEXIT","BYVAR;GOGPS;<<LASTSCR"

/,-----------------------GPS Auto Switch Screen Button on off----------------------
"AUTOGPSBT","BYVAR;AUTOGPSSW;AUTOGPSON<<AUTOGPSOFF "
"AUTOGPSON"," SETVAR;AUTOGPSSW;1"
"AUTOGPSOFF","SETV AR;AUTOGPSSW;0"