We have a client with no arms who needs to be able to operate one of our multi user Crestron systems.? Our network team do not allow Alexa/Google Home devices due to security reasons.? Boss wants me to use the OK Crestron feature of some touch panels. Our rooms run a SIMPL Windows program, and we don't use Crestron Home at all. Reading the ?it says this feature (voiceautolisten) is no longer supported, but I then was asked what about TSS panels because the OID seems to imply?TSx-x70 v1.002.0040+ are supported.? I searched all the relevant product pages on the Crestron webpage to see if these even have a mic, apparently there is a Mic hard key/button but I could not find any documentation stating it has an integrated mic. I confirmed you couldn't add a TSS device except the TSS-752 as a SIMPL ethernet device which is necessary to add the Voice Control device extender. I didn't have a TSS panel handy to test with and I don't know if any of the ones we do have are a 752 and that's not a TSx-x70 anyways, so I thought what the heck let's try on a TSW-770 that I do have even though it says it's not supported.? I set voiceautolisten on via command line and it took the command just fine.? Modified our standard program to have the Voice Control device extender on the TSW-770 and tested...and it seems to work fine. I got the power on and off working just need to add voice commands for source switching, volume control, and discrete display power control (the power on and off I initially defined turn the entire system on and off.)? I noticed that sometimes you need to say "hey google" twice and sometimes the speech doesn't get properly converted to the phrase defined in the program, but most of the time it works just fine and usually works on a second attempt if not the first.? I even updated the TSW-770 firmware to the latest, it was originally on v2.003.1011 (Tue Nov 22 15:45:02 EST 2022) now on v2.003.1024 (Thu Jan 26 15:01:17 EST 2023) and it still works.? So why does the OID say it's not supported?? Is a firmware update likely to break it later?? Will the command line command at some point be removed/disabled?? Is anyone else actually using this functionality?
Erik Brown