Voice alerts test build

I added the devo6 build to the post above. Emulators are now also available for download.

Super ! I will try on my devo 8s this week end.
As concerns devo 12s is it necessary to change the devo12-lib.dfu ?

That looks great happy to test for U7E platform, when scrolling true the sounds list, or selecting the sound, does it also play them?

Pressing ENT on the music id will trigger playing it once.

Fernandez wrote: when scrolling true the sounds list, or selecting the sound, does it also play them?

Thanks for your work and posting the files, i tried the emulator but it says mp3 must be enabled ect..I never had much luck with the emulator from day one so i will test it out this weekend on my 12s ...On the volume issue several months ago when trying the build i hooked a mini sound amp to the DFplayer and it nearly doubled the volume but it requires 5v and the DFplayer will function on 3.3v and i was powering it from the 3.3 on the 12s circuit board which worked well but when i tried to hook the amp it crashed my 12s causing it to shut down.. i suspect it demanded to much current for the tx to handle..Possible solution would be to use a 5v buck booster regulator like i used on my AIO camera to allow it to run on a 1s battery..

You have to enable the player in hardware.iniAlso copy music.map to the same directory as hardware. Ini

tried that and still not working..no worries i will test out on my spare 12s i use it as guinea pig

I am trying to test on the emulator of the 8s.
As I understand it is not possible to have sound as the mp3 files are not there (or where to put them) but the command is written in the screen.
There are 14 possible switch positions which is the total position of all the swiches on a devo 8s. May be it would be simpler to assign each swich position directly (have for exemple RUD DR0 in the place of switch 1 and a possibility to have a none in the mp3 id

The number of available switch positions always matches the number available on your transceiver. The reason for this layout is, that I wanted to avoid scrolling long ways to get to the desired switch setting. Right now if you set something at for example switch 6 and 10, it will be shown at position 1+2upon rereading the model file.
Actually I wanted to only display a new switch row if the previous one is activated (same goes for telemetry alarms), I just didn't have time for that yet.

Coming to think of it...if we predefine the switches we would fit twice the amount on the screen, having ten switches at a glance would be neat as well... The code would be a lot simpler. Just not a perfect solution for devo 10/7,we would fit only two on the screen...

Where are the mp3 files being created at? Is there a way toy generate them with a Windows program or are they needed to still be done on Mac?

On Windows,to make the mp3 files I use natural reader free - www.naturalreaders.com/ - in which you can write anything and have it read by different voices. To record the speach I use Audacity - www.audacityteam.org/ - a very good free sound editor . Once all the commands have been typed on natural reader I record all in a row and afterwards it is very easy to split the global file to export all the mp3.

Moeder wrote: Coming to think of it...if we predefine the switches we would fit twice the amount on the screen, having ten switches at a glance would be neat as well... The code would be a lot simpler. Just not a perfect solution for devo 10/7,we would fit only two on the screen...

Effectively the 7 and 10 have small screens. I was considering the 8 and 12 which have large screens . But it would be interesting to imagin how many sounds a user would use on a model. Probably not all (I have personnaly not often all swithes used in a model but frequently a lot and I would have the ones I use voiced) but the majority. Anyway as you said no solution is perfect.

The genspeech tool works on Linux and Mac OS. I guess we could make similar tool for Windows.

Edit:... Or a web interface to the Linux tool...

I am testing the deviation-devo8-v5.0.0-396188a.dfu with my devo 8s. My dfplayer assembly works when standalone. I hear correctly the sounds. But no success in the devo 8s. I have enabled the dfplayer in the hardware ini (extended-audio=dfplayer) I have put the music.map in the root of the TX. But no sound . Any idea ?
It seems also that i cannot record the sounds affectation from the sound menu. It comes back blank when I restart.

After thinking about it I decided on moving to predefining all switches in the music config menu. The number of clicks is not that much higher, since there is only one selection field per switch compared to two in the first version, and the code is a lot cleaner.
I thoroughly tested the new build in the emulator, please try again with the updated build (1896b91) I attached to the post above replacing the old build.

I also made the menu consistent with other deviation menus where you go from "none" to a selection with the "right" button. Pressing enter on the ID will still trigger playing the MP3.

Morlacus wrote: I am testing the deviation-devo8-v5.0.0-396188a.dfu with my devo 8s. My dfplayer assembly works when standalone. I hear correctly the sounds. But no success in the devo 8s. I have enabled the dfplayer in the hardware ini (extended-audio=dfplayer) I have put the music.map in the root of the TX. But no sound . Any idea ?
It seems also that i cannot record the sounds affectation from the sound menu. It comes back blank when I restart.

Moeder,
Testing the new devo8 dfu firmware. The presentation ot the music page is easy to use. I see the description of the music in the page, the musics number are recorded but unfortunately no sound neither when pressing the id in the music page nor anywhere)
My mp3 files are in the root of my sd card. Am I wrong ?
Has anybody succeeded in a test ?

The mp3 files should be located in a folder named mp3, which itself should be placed on the root directory of the SD card. Also if you are using a mac, make sure you get rid of the "." files which often are automatically created. Third, how did you wire the dfplayer to the devo ppm port?

Eureka !!!! It works after putting the mp3 files in a mp3 folder as you said.
the first message I heard was a transmitter battery voltage which said very correctly 6.01 volts (I had put the alarm very hight to force the message)
I have also a switch message which works very well. (I have only programmed one for testing)
Yes I use the trainer port of my devo 8
As concerns volume it is reasonably high
I will continue testing now.

I have not heard welcome and goodbye (I dont worry a lot about but..)
It could be good in global alarms to have more figures for exemple for remaining time which could exceed 9 say 12 or 22 for exemple so have from 10 to 19 and about ten.
Will there be a version of your firmware in the " deviation 5 standard version" (for screens scrolling)

Congratulations for your work

Has the devo12 also been updated with the latest build? Still plan on testing it out soon if i can figure things out..
Thanks..