Voice command control of mini-client

[cat6man]

This is a placeholder for a project I'm planning on starting over the holidays to integrate voice command control with my video system and MiBox SageTV miniclient.

Currently leaning towards AnyMote hardware and Tasker and Anyvoice android apps, but who knows where this may lead.

[rnadeau]

I installed unified remote on my phone and installed the unified remote server on my sage server. you can use wifi, mobile or ir if your phone supports it to control your sage client, but I don't know if it works with the android miniclient. You can create a remote template for just about any program and it supports voice control and works very well. I have created a sagetv profile that covers navigation and playback. It has replicates most of the sage features on my regular handheld remote.

[Fuzzy]

It might make more sense to see what it'd take to integrate android search into the miniclient, since the Mi Box and Shield both have microphones built into their remotes.

This would take working with Stuckless to build the proper interfaces into the miniclient, and perhaps even involve a helper app that can fetch and maintain a compact version of the database from the sagetv server, but it would then allow you to simply ask the android tv search for a given movie or show, and the items in sage would come up integrated in with the results from other search capable apps you might have available.

The next step would involve an ability to launch the miniclient app and go directly to playing that content. This might be as simple as setting a variable for the sagetv id and jumping directly to a widget in the UI that is the start of the 'play' event (though I'm not sure how capable the miniclient interface is of doing this type of event from the client end).

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

It might make more sense to see what it'd take to integrate android search into the miniclient, since the Mi Box and Shield both have microphones built into their remotes.

This would take working with Stuckless to build the proper interfaces into the miniclient, and perhaps even involve a helper app that can fetch and maintain a compact version of the database from the sagetv server, but it would then allow you to simply ask the android tv search for a given movie or show, and the items in sage would come up integrated in with the results from other search capable apps you might have available.

The next step would involve an ability to launch the miniclient app and go directly to playing that content. This might be as simple as setting a variable for the sagetv id and jumping directly to a widget in the UI that is the start of the 'play' event (though I'm not sure how capable the miniclient interface is of doing this type of event from the client end).

This would be my preferred method. There is an Alexa skill that works currently, but the more methods we have the better.

[cat6man]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

It might make more sense to see what it'd take to integrate android search into the miniclient, since the Mi Box and Shield both have microphones built into their remotes.

This would take working with Stuckless to build the proper interfaces into the miniclient, and perhaps even involve a helper app that can fetch and maintain a compact version of the database from the sagetv server, but it would then allow you to simply ask the android tv search for a given movie or show, and the items in sage would come up integrated in with the results from other search capable apps you might have available.

The next step would involve an ability to launch the miniclient app and go directly to playing that content. This might be as simple as setting a variable for the sagetv id and jumping directly to a widget in the UI that is the start of the 'play' event (though I'm not sure how capable the miniclient interface is of doing this type of event from the client end).

i agree that your suggestion is a better option for searching content.
i'm not sure it is necessary to get a control functionality that i'm looking for.
i'm looking to start, navigate and control sagetv on the Mi-box, as well as my other video components.

from what i have seen in an entire 45 minutes of research, this should be pretty simple with tasker and autovoice, which cost less than $5 combined as apps

another advantage is that it is a level of coding (really just configuring the app tasks) that i can actually do!