I've been browsing that forum for some time and every time I get angry by the lack of information and the time everything takes to load. I'm wondering if we could set up some other way to discuss between QBO users ? Maybe start a slack channel or IRC channel ? A wiki would also be a good fit for this kind of project. Not sure where to host it though.

Would people be interested in this ?

I have so many questions, on how to set up eyelids (well... definitely not priority), to how to use the additional microphones, to fix my current microphone that just hears static whatever I try....

Anyway ! Let me know if some of you are interested and I'll see what I can host.

Regards

I'm currently an IT Professional updating my skills having learned HTML 4 and earlier version CSS support in high school and college during late 1990s and early 2000s. I'm working on a becoming a web developer and noticed that Q.bo One supports JavaScript. I'm wondering whether the JavaScript support is based on ECMA or the actual JavaScript language? Cause I'm currently learning this (ECMA) for my web development. Are currently wondering whether I would be able to use this knowledge to develop for your robotics platform?

Thank you for your time and attention in this matter.

Kind Regards,

MrGrymReaper

I had to ran the following commands to make Qbo start in Python 3.x... in short the 'print("...")' and 'except (error) as e:' (and some special stuff for snowboy) HotwordDetector in snowboydecoder). I am stuck now on Audio in QboTalk (which I posted in another thread).

 # Adapt for Python 3
sed -i 's/python2/python3/g' /opt/qbo/Start.py
sed -i 's/python /python3 /g' /opt/qbo/scripts/QBO_PiFaceFast.sh
sed -i 's/except (IOError, ImportError), e:/except (IOError, ImportError) as e:/g' /opt/qbo/web/panel/views/moves_views.py
sed -i 's/import thread/import _thread/g' /opt/qbo/PiFaceFast.py
sed -i 's/print"\(.*\)$/print("\1)/g' /opt/qbo/PiFaceFast.py
sed -i 's/print "\(.*\)$/print("\1)/g' /opt/qbo/PiFaceFast.py
sed -i 's/ThreadedDetector/HotwordDetector/g' /opt/qbo/PiFaceFast.py
sed -i 's/snowboythreaded/snowboydecoder/g' /opt/qbo/PiFaceFast.py
sed -i 's/print "\(.*\)$/print("\1)/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboDialogFlowV2.py
sed -i 's/python/python3/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboDialogFlowV2.py
sed -i 's/python2/python3/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboGAssistant.py
sed -i 's/python/python3/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboMyCroft.py
sed -i 's/python2/python3/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboTalk.py
sed -i "s/print '\(.*\)$/print('\1)/g" /opt/qbo/assistants/QboTalk.py
sed -i 's/print "\(.*\)$/print("\1)/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboTalk.py
sed -i 's/python2/python3/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboTalkMycroft.py
sed -i 's/python2/python3/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboWatson.py
sed -i 's/print "\(.*\)$/print("\1)/g' /opt/qbo/assistants/QboWatson.py
sed -i 's/print"\(.*\)$/print("\1)/g' /opt/qbo/controller/QboController.py
sed -i 's/print "\(.*\)$/print("\1)/g' /opt/qbo/controller/QboController.py

Warning: Do make a backup of your SD card before attempting to try this (or be prepared to reinstall Q.bo One all over again ;-)  ).  The UV4L WebRTC (might) interphere(s) with OpenCV used for face recognition. Investigating further...

I am trying to setup the QBO for speech recognition using Python3's speech_recognition library but seem to have stumbled over a hurdle which I can't get over as of yet. I am trying to find at least one of the in-built microphones using the speech_recognition's function:

sr.Microphone.list_microphone_names() 

But it is returning the following output:

1. The rows are in reverse order.  So row four of the website is equal to row one of the QBO led matrix. 
2. The website returns a value something like 000000001b1f0e04 and you will have to replace leading zeros with 0x.  So the website value will be  000000001b1f0e04  and you will have to change it to 0x1b1f0e04.

Both of these issues are minor.  I just thought that I would mention them since this post is for beginners.

https://xantorohara.github.io/led-matrix-editor/

Using the website editor you can select your pattern and use the value returned with QboCmd.py SetMouth function.

Here is some sample code so you can play with it:

import time
import serial #handles the serial ports
import QboCmd #holds some commands we can use for Qbo

#set up ports for communicating with servos
port = '/dev/serial0'
ser = serial.Serial(port, baudrate=115200, bytesize = serial.EIGHTBITS, stopbits = serial.STOPBITS_ONE, parity = serial.PARITY_NONE, rtscts = False, dsrdtr =False, timeout = 0)
QBO = QboCmd.Controller(ser)

print("all")
#ALL LEDs value from website 000000001f1f1f1f  remember replace leading zeros with 0x
QBO.SetMouth(0x1f1f1f1f)  
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("oval")
#oval value from website 000000000e11110e  remember replace leading zeros with 0x
QBO.SetMouth(0xe11110e)
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("smile")
#smile -value from website  00000000110e0000  remember replace leading zeros with 0x
QBO.SetMouth(0x110e0000)
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("sad")
#sad value from website  00000000000e1100  remember replace leading zeros with 0x
QBO.SetMouth(0x0e1100)
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("serious")
#serious website value 00000000001f1f00  remember replace leading zeros with 0x
QBO.SetMouth(0x1f1f00)
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("love")
#love wesite value 000000001b1f0e04  remember replace leading zeros with 0x
QBO.SetMouth(0x1b1f0e04)

Now on to some simple coding nothing fancy here folks. Inside of the /home/pi/Documents/Python projects is a file called QboCmd.py. This is an important file for us mere beginners. With in the file there are commands that we can use to control our Qbo.

Let’s just start with the controlling head movement. The head moves both along the X axis (left and right) and the Y axis (up and down).

First thing we need to import some files. Importing the files allows us to use the code with in those files. So what this means for us beginners is that someone really smart person wrote the hard stuff and we get to cheat off of them. We don’t need to re-invent the wheel. LOL

import time
import serial #handles the serial ports
import QboCmd #holds some commands we can use for Qbo

#set up ports for communicating with servos
port = '/dev/serial0'
ser = serial.Serial(port, baudrate=115200, bytesize = serial.EIGHTBITS, stopbits = serial.STOPBITS_ONE, parity = serial.PARITY_NONE, rtscts = False, dsrdtr =False, timeout = 0)
QBO = QboCmd.Controller(ser)

print("Start Positon")
#Set a start position
QBO.SetServo(1,511, 100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
QBO.SetServo(2,450,100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
time.sleep(1)

print("Left Positon")
#Move the head to the left
QBO.SetServo(1,725, 100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("Start Positon")
#move it back to starting point
QBO.SetServo(1,511, 100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("Right Positon")
#Move the head to the right
QBO.SetServo(1,290, 100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("Start Positon")
#move it back to starting point
QBO.SetServo(1,511, 100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

#moving the head up and down along Y axis

print("Up Positon")
#Move the head to the left
QBO.SetServo(2,530, 100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("Start Positon")
#move it back to starting point
QBO.SetServo(2,450,100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("Down Positon")
#Move the head to the right
QBO.SetServo(2,400, 100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
#Pause
time.sleep(1)

print("Start Positon")
#move it back to starting point
QBO.SetServo(2,450,100)#Axis,Angle,Speed
#Pause
time.sleep(1)