Using Siri to control XTension

[George Handley]

Wow Tom, it looks like a straight forward plan… particularly after I learn some of the terms you used.

For right now, however, I would like to confirm what I believe you originally said could be done which is pretty close to what you have in your post.

I have over 200 i/o points, and other than scheduled events, which are also macros, we run everything around here using Palm Pads. I built macro global scripts to act on the press of any certain Palm Pad button.

From my understanding of your previous explanations, I can dream up as many specific and consistent short phrases to verbally say to Siri in iMessage. I’ll call the contact name in iMessage “Arthur.” 

While I vaguely presently understand your instructions below, the point is, XTension will receive the exact text, and can be evaluated, acknowledged, and acted upon. So I send a text message to Arthur saying something like: “Arthur, please turn on the living room."

When ever XTension gets an Arthur iMessage, I will have built a master global script with every possible “Arthur, please do something” phrase to be evaluated. If there is a match, it will execute the existing global scripts I have in the On/Off scripts for the Palm Pads.

Have I accurately re-described what you are doing?

Thanks,

George


> On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Thomas Arman <tarman at me.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been having fun today :-)
> 
> Since my XTension runs on a Mini, I made a Contact entry called “Mini” with just the email address set to the AppleID on which it receives its iMessages.
> 
> So now I can tell Siri to “Send a message to Mini.”
> 
> Using the attached script as the “AppleScript handler” for Messages app on “Mini”, I can now send messages with the following syntax:
> 
> 
> [Tell] <Extension> [to] turn [on|off] <unit name>
> 
> Where:
> <Extension> can be: Extension, extension, TellXT, tellXT, Tell XT, or tell XT. (Siri can’t spell XTension, :-)
> 
> [Tell] can be any text other than the values of <Extension> or it can be null.
> 
> [to] is optional
> 
> turn [on|off] can be: turn on, turnon, turn off, or turnoff.
> 
> White space is ignored every where EXCEPT must be one space between: to & turn, turn & [on|off], if you use those forms.
> White space is PRESERVED inside of <unit name> string.  Siri is pretty good a just putting one space between words.
> 
> James can confirm, but the <unit name>’s appear to be case insensitive (which is good for Siri.)
> You biggest problem will likely be having unit names Siri can understand. I made some units with “nice names” the just turn on/off the units that Siri can’t understand.
> 
> Some examples I used to test:
> 
> "Siri tell Mini to tell extension to turn on great room lights”
> 
> “Siri, send a message to Mini” …
> … OK, what do you want to say to Mini?
> “Extension turn off loft light”
> 
> OK, for security, I only act on requests FROM chat buddies whose “handle” matches what I expect.
> Near the top of the AppleScript there is this chunk of code:
> 
> property handleList : "tarman at me.com <mailto:tarman at me.com>" --<<<<<<<<< CHANGE THIS
> 
> using terms from application "Messages"
> 	
> 	-- handler to respond to all incoming messages.
> 	on message received theMessage from theBuddy for theChat
> 		set savedDelim to get AppleScript's text item delimiters
> 		
> 		set theID to id of theBuddy
> 		--display dialog "-" & theID & "-ID"
> 		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
> 		set theHandle to text item 2 of theID
> 		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to savedDelim
> 		--display dialog "-" & theHandle & "-Handle"  --<<<<<< USE THIS TO ID SENDER
> NOTE: I have removed the “--“ from this “display dialog” for you. Put back after finding handle"
> 		
>  handleList needs to be a blank separated list of “handles”.  In my case I just use one, tarman at me.com <mailto:tarman at me.com>.
> 
> After you enable the script as the “AppleScript handler” in Messages, you can determine the “handle” your iPhone, Mac, etc., uses by sending it a iMessage.
> 
> When you send a message to the machine, a dialog should appear that looks like this:
> <PastedGraphic-1.tiff>
> 
> Once you have determined it, put your handle in the “handleList” property, put back the “--“, compile and save script.
> 
> Messages app can be a bit snooty about enabling the handler.  If you have problems with it, try
> changing the handler to “None”, send it a couple of messages, then re-select the script.
> That has worked for me.
> 
> Here is the applescript file, I will sent a text copy if you need it.   
> <Extension Control.applescript>
> 
> Contact me on or off line with questions or comments.
> 
> Tom
> 
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