PiAUISuite Update

Quick update on everything that is going on!

I've been sick (still am but going to the doctors on Friday hopefully) so updates have been slow.

I just pushed out a bunch of stuff and finally voicecommand v3.0 is coming out officialy tomorrow night.

NEW FEATURES!

• Add logging to /dev/shm/voice.log
• Allow filler to be a set string that can be changed
• Add push through mode with text so that voice isn't required for testing, -I flag (that is a capital i)
• Remove quotes in Misc scripts
• Switch flags to make more sense (now you follow them by a 0 or 1 to override config file options, ex: voicecommand -c0 overrides continuous to turn it off)
• Add language support with !language==NN (NN is country code such as en_us or es or de, etc.)
• Added Wolfram alpha API support. If you have an API you can set !api==YOUR-API
• Better Youtube streaming (still working on making this even better but youtube is messing with me)
• Added Hulu/Vimeo support and streaming
• Removed need for tts-nofill
• More advanced install scripts
• Case insensitive commands and keywords
• Passthrough support to output command instead of running it
• Am going to finish the install instruction THIS WEEKEND!
• Am going to make a GPIO example with a video hopefully this weekend

Features for 4.0 that are looking hopeful

• Getting rid of duration and having voicecommand detect when you stop talking using sox (I've almost got this working as well as the current implementation)
• A nodejs server that is a variant of RPiTV to control voicecommand, youtube, and my other scripts with a pretty HTML front end.
• Smart phone control
• Android advanced app to allow you to record voice on phone and send data
• XBMC plugin (maybe, this is still a stretch goal).
• emulationstation and video game support (need to figure out how to get this running from within X11)

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Introduction To Basic Terminal Commands For Linux - Part 1

In this tutorial you will learn to use linux terminal. You will learn to navigate on the terminal, learn to create and remove file and much more. Most of this commands also works on Mac Os X and powershell on windows.

What Is Terminal ?

Basically you are reading this tutorial because you are new to linux or want to learn using terminal to navigate. Before you get started you must have linux installed or running virtually on your computer. I would recommend downloading fedora or ubuntu (If you have trouble installing ubuntu leave a comment below and i will post a tutorial).

Commands To Remember

This are some of commands you must remember which will help you to use terminal more easily.
ls - it will list all files and folder in your current directory
ls -l it will give detailt listing of all files and folders
ls -a it will list all files and folder in your current directory including hidden files (files and folders that begin with period)
pwd will print your working directory or simply your current directory

Navigating In Terminal

Here i may refer folder as directory so dont get confused. This is the term we use in linux for folders.

cd - cd stands for change directory. we use cd follow by path address to navigate ro that folder.
Eg: cd Desktop will make desktop as my current directory.
cd / will make root as you current directory
cd ~ will make home as your current directory
Typing cd alone is same as cd ~ and it will make home as your current directory
cd .. will make parent directory i.e directory above your current directory
cd ../../ will take you two folder up

Creating Files And Folder

mkdir - we use mkdir follow by path or folder name to create a directory
Eg mkdir car will create directory car in your current directory
to create folder recursively i.e folder inside folder inside folder we use -p flag
Eg mkdir -p vehicles/car/truck will create directory vehicles in your current directory which have car inside it and car has directory truck in it.

touch - we use touch follow by file name to create empty file.

Removing Files And Folders

rmdir - we use rmdir follow by path to to remove any directory. This will not work if folder you are trying to remove has something in it.
rm -r  to remove file recursively which can not be removed by rmdir
rm - We use this command to remove files

Feedback

I guess thats enough for today. I know this is little confusing but practice and you will be a terminal pro.  Leave a comment below if you have any trouble. You may also like to read below articles.

• Learn To Hide Files Behind The Images
• Watch Star Wars movie in CMD
• Finding Ip Address Of A Website Using CMD

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Getting Hulu/Vimeo to work on the Raspberry Pi

This one isn't quite for the faint of heart as you have to install a lot of scripts but here is what I did to get hulu and vimeo working on the Raspberry Pi.

sudo apt-get install libwww-mechanize-perl libxml-simple-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libio-all-lwp-perl liblwp-protocol-http-socketunix-perl liblwp-protocol-socks-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libcrypt-blowfish-perl

sudo cpan "Module::Find"
sudo cpan "Crypt::Blowfish_PP"
sudo cpan "Crypt::Rijndael"

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos.git
cd get-flash-videos
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install

get_flash_videos --add-plugin http://gitorious.org/get-flash-videos-plugins/gfv-plugins/blobs/raw/release/Hulu.pm

It doesn't look to bad written out but it will take you a bit to install everything.
Once you do that, you can download any video from hulu (not the members only ones), vimeo, and many other sites without commercials like so:

get_flash_videos "http://vimeo.com/50796424"

Now you can get my updated youtube-safe script from here and use it to play videos for you as well.
I'll work on making a browser plugin for this as well. Then you can stream videos from those sites by typing:

youtube-safe "http://vimeo.com/50796424"

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Top 10 Search Engines In World

Search Engine Is a Helpful Platform For Site/Blog and Many Other Purpose.....! In Internet Search Engine Is Like A Book Who Have All Words About Internet In It...! So If You Want A Full Book With All Words Its Not So Easy ..! There For I Have Given You A List About Top 10 Search Engines In World ...! So With This List You Can Easily Get Your Search ..! So Lets See Below List ...!

1. Google :  Google Is One Of The Top Search Engine In World Every Internet User Know About Google, Google Have Lot Of Services Like YouTube, G-mail, G Plus, Google Drive And Many Others...!
2. Yahoo : Yahoo! Is Another Best Search Engine ..! Yahoo Have Much More Free Services ..!
3. Bing : Bing Search Engine Is Very Nice Search Engine Its Powered By Microsoft ...!
4. Aol : Aol Is Another Nice Search Engine Powered By Google..!
5. Ask :
6. my web search :
7. blekko :
8. lycos :
9. dogpile :
10. web crawler :

SO Friends Leave Your Comments On  Top 10 Search Engines In World

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How To Block Youtube Ads ?

Most of you get bored or annoyed due ads playing before youtube videos. Today i will share with you an amazing peace of programme called Block YouTube Ads . It removes all video ads before and during videos, as well as removes all those ads that pop at the bottom of the screen while the video is playing. It works on all major browser such Internet explorer, google chrome and mozilla firefox.

How to do ?

  1. Download Youtube Ads Blocker
  2. Double click on downloaded file.
  3. Follow the on screen instruction.

More Interesting Tricks

• Learn To Hide Files Behind The Images
• Enable God Mode In Windows 7 And Vista
• Finding Serial Key Of Any Software Using Simple Google Trick

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Streaming Other HD Video Sites on the Raspberry PI

For those that are interested, this will allow you to stream internet shows like The Daily Show on your Raspberry Pi in HD with no lag.

A week or so ago I posted a hack which allowed people to stream youtube videos in the browser here. Unfortunately, this same method didn't work out of the box for some other video sites. They would stream a couple seconds then just end (I found this to happen with the daily show).



I now have a fix for that and have a script called youtube-safe, which can stream (high-quality with no lag on a decent internet connection) any video site that works with youtube-dl.

If you already have the Youtube scripts in my PiAUISuite installed, you can just update, otherwise you have to go through the install script and select which parts you want (this one being under youtube).

Install Instructions

sudo apt-get install git-core
git clone git://github.com/StevenHickson/PiAUISuite.git
cd PiAUISuite/Install/
./InstallAUISuite.sh

**NOTE, this will ask you if you want to install a lot of different scripts because it is a SUITE. You only have to pick the ones you want to use. If you only want to use the youtube scripts, press n on any other question except for the dependencies and youtube.

Update Instructions 

cd PiAUISuite
git pull
cd Install
sudo ./UpdateAUISuite.sh



Once that is done, you can watch the daily show in 1080p like so:
youtube-safe "http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/"

Even better, if you have voicecommand installed on your system, add the following line to the bottom of your config file for it to play the newest daily show with your voice:
~Daily Show==youtube-safe "http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/"

I'll work on making a browser plugin for this as well.

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Playing YouTube videos in the browser on the Raspberry Pi

This will allow you to stream up to 1080p youtube videos in the browser on the Raspberry pi using omxplayer. It's a crude hack but it seems to work pretty well on my system. Install instructions and a demonstration video are shown below.

You can install this by pulling the git repository and running the scripts below.
Commands to install are below (your user should have sudo privileges but you don't need to be root):

You may have to enable user scripts in Midori by going to Menu>Preferences>Extensions>UserScripts and clicking the check box.

sudo apt-get install git-core

git clone git://github.com/StevenHickson/PiAUISuite.git

cd PiAUISuite/Install/
./InstallAUISuite.sh

**NOTE, this will ask you if you want to install a lot of different scripts because it is a SUITE. You only have to pick the ones you want to use. If you only want to use the youtube scripts, press n on any other question except for the dependencies and youtube.

Update Instructions 

cd PiAUISuite

git pull

cd Install

sudo ./UpdateAUISuite.sh

Demonstration

There is a lot of misinformation out there on how to do this. Using gnash or HTML5 is going to result in a frame rate so slow it can be considered unworkable. I've tried both of them out and you can't really watch videos with them. XBMC has a youtube plugin but it is buggy and crashes often.

I've been playing youtube videos using the command line and my voicecommand using the scripts found here.

After seeing a couple people ask about playing youtube in the browser last night, I decided to go ahead and do that and create some user scripts for midori which allow the browser to utilize the same hack.

Here is the technical overview:

I created a script called youtube which uses the youtube-dl -g flag to grab the video URL. It also handles playlists and other parsing. Then it passes that video URL to omxplayer for it to stream. 

Next I registered a new URL protocol yt:// and made it pass it's information to the youtube program whenever it runs. 

Finally, I created a user script in Midori which simply replaces all http://youtube.com/watch?* URLs with yt://youtube.com/watch?*.

Feel free to let me know any problems you have and enjoy your Youtube browsing experience.


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Places you can find me

• Facebook
• Google+
• Linkedin
• Blogspot
• Google-Code
• Github
• YouTube
• Twitter

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