Can you adjust volume on the fly?

email68 · #1 November 22nd, 2009, 01:54 AM

Is there a way to adjust the volume on the voice per event?

Like at night it if you wanted a lower volume announcement for some reason.

Wadenut · #2 November 22nd, 2009, 07:31 AM

Have you tried hs.SetVolumeEx?
For example:
sub main()
If hour(now) > 22 Or hour(now) < 6 Then
hs.SetVolumeEx 50
Else
hs.SetVolumeEx 100
End If
End Sub

nightwalker · #3 November 22nd, 2009, 08:14 AM

I do almost the same thing but i use events. I run this script statement in my events to lower and raise the volume of announcements.

&hs.SetVolumeEx (50)

50 being the level I want. I just include this in events I already have set up to start things up in the mornings or shut things down at night.

TrOjAn · #4 November 22nd, 2009, 08:17 AM

I use BLVolume to condition events based on time of day / night, an example would be an event that speaks but at night you only want it spoken softly and louder during the day.

in stead of having several events with different times in them the plugin has the times set in it.. I find it helpful

TrOjAn

Rupp · #5 November 22nd, 2009, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wadenut

Have you tried hs.SetVolumeEx?
For example:
sub main()
If hour(now) > 22 Or hour(now) < 6 Then
hs.SetVolumeEx 50
Else
hs.SetVolumeEx 100
End If
End Sub

This is exactly what I use to adjust the volume from day to evening.

mterry63 · #6 November 22nd, 2009, 10:44 PM

If you are interested in adjusting the volume of speaker clients that AREN'T running on the Homeseer machine, the script client can adjust the volume on any machines running the speaker client.

email68 · #7 November 23rd, 2009, 03:41 AM

Thanks guys. Nice solution for this.

Simonk · #8 November 23rd, 2009, 06:05 AM

I'd like to be able to do this but I have multiple soundcards and multiple speaker clients running on the server, so how would I tell it which soundcard to set ?

Pete · #9 November 23rd, 2009, 01:52 PM

It would really be nice if there was some sort of "volume" proxy variable. Today I use time and very specific (in the script as above) methods. I have some events which are medium and low volume and some which are high volume and then all which are related to time. BL Volume is nice but its really a "catch all" and does offer a partial solution.