Re: [mh] MisterHouse Docs

THX H

I'd like to make a difference between the 'this is how you do it' pages 
from the 'this is how the code is documented', so for instance there 
would be pages on Tasmota and Sonoff that both referenced the MQTT.pm page

As for sound, I use a mixture - the regular sounds that I have all the 
time (arming the alarm, goodnight etc.) i use pre-recorded wav files and 
play them with aplay, for anything where TTS is needed I use google. In 
both cases I have a couple of Pi Zeroes at opposite ends of the house  
running a small mqtt client that subscribes to a topic 
/cmnd/mhsounder/play which get a JSON payload like 
file=xxx.wav,test="this is some text" and off they go.  The amps and 
speakers cost more than the Pi's

G

On 31/12/2020 15:34, H Plato wrote:
> Hi Giles,
>
>   Thanks for taking the initiative! The activity recently has been the 
> push I needed to update a few things as well. I still haven’t got my 
> tasmota device yet (was supposed to be here a week ago), but when it 
> arrives I’ll add in support for the S31 power monitoring plug.
>
>   I think updating the docs is overdue, and really appreciate your 
> first cut. Might also be a good time to cull out any old information. 
> I often still use this page to quickly find the proper parameters 
> (http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/mh.html 
> <http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/mh.html>), ie the fields for 
> time_cron. I don’t know who maintains sourceforge anymore, so would be 
> good to ensure that all that documentation is moved over to git (as 
> you are doing), and ideally the sourceforge stuff is removed to 
> prevent wrong information turning up for users.
>
> To make it easier for documentation, maybe the protocols and 
> interfaces can be combined with the ‘items and their methods’. Its 
> always easier to sustain documentation if there is only one place to 
> make updates. Just a thought.
>
>   I agree speech can use an overall. I’m curious what people are 
> using? I’m still using festival, same version from over 10 years ago. 
> It took some finagling to get it to work on Ubuntu 18.04, I’ll see if 
> I remember what I did. I know some people use Google, however the 
> speech events are such a core part of MH for me that I didn’t want 
> reliance on the cloud for that to work.  I’d be curious what people 
> are using for speech, as working implementations might be the place to 
> start for a speech page update.
>
>> On Dec 31, 2020, at 6:56 AM, Giles Godart-Brown 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> All
>>
>> I'm back in Covid Lockdown again :-(
>>
>> So I've started to look at the MisterHouse docs.
>>
>> Here is what I've done over the last couple of days.
>>
>>   * I've created a new landing page at
>>     https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse/wiki/GGB-Start-Here
>>   * I've harvested, coalesced and pointed to existing pages to link
>>     off this page, creating new pages where necessary. If there is a
>>     naming conflict I've prefixed my version GGB-
>>   * I've created a new structure with the ultimate aim of being able
>>     to navigate to what you want without relying so heavily on
>>     search, and making it easier for newbies.
>>   * I've made a distinction between 'protocols and interfaces' which
>>     will point to instructions on how to implement each and 'items
>>     and methods' which is just hoovering up the sourceforge .pm files.
>>   * I've only done a couple of sourceforge files so far (e.g.
>>     Generic_Item), there are lots to do I believe.
>>   * I've added a hints and tips page so we can gather input from the
>>     community (and maybe roll these into a future release)
>>
>> I've found a couple of places where I 'ran out of talent', maybe 
>> someone can help;
>>
>>   * The Speech engine page
>>     https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse/wiki/Speech-engines is very
>>     out of date
>>   * A couple of windows questions-
>>       o the Windows install looks very daunting
>>         (https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse/wiki/WindowsPerl5.12)
>>         is it really this hard?
>>       o When you start on windows, where do you set the
>>         mh.private.ini location? I need this for the installation
>>         screen (https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse/wiki/Installation)
>>
>> Next steps
>>
>>   * Take direction from the community on what I should fix/change
>>   * Adding the missing item definitions from sourceforge
>>   * Clean up the protocols and interfaces to link to the existing
>>     wiki pages and create new placeholders for missing ones.
>>   * Fix broken links
>>
>> Looking forward to input from you all
>>
>> Happy New Year
>>
>> Giles
>>
>> p.s. 'then I ran out of talent' is a famous quote from a rally car 
>> driver after he'd crashed! - G
>>
>>
>>
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