Can MyCroft monitor sounds that aren't speech?

Plugins & Skills Skill Suggestions - Votes Needed
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Can I build a skill where I instruct MyCroft to listen for certain sounds for an extended period of time? I have an electric bug zapping light near MyCroft in my office. When I leave the office I’d like to ask MyCroft to count the number of zaps that he hears, so he can tell me the count the next morning.

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This seems very possible…see:

You’d have to train a model to listen for zaps, of course.

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Thanks for that link baconator! Is there any existing skill that responds to a sharp hand clap? Maybe I should learn how to do that first?

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Yes, however you would have to train your own Precise model.

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Thanks for that info, but first I need to update the software in my Mark 1? Is there a simple way to do that?

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I used SSH to update MyCroft to 18.8.1 and the listener is now Precise.

I’m trying to find the most simple sound to monitor.

Is there already a skill to read the frequency of a single note? MyCroft could then act as a guitar tuner? Or you could play a single note on an organ and MyCoft could identify it?

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A guitar tuning skill would be cool, though I suspect it’d be used more like ‘hey mycroft play an E string’. This skill does not currently exist that I know of.

The wakeword/wake sound monitoring, if done with precise, can be trained to listen for various things (hey mycroft, christopher, jarvis, sneezes, etc). This isn’t a skill in and of itself, but a tool that can be adapted to do what you’re looking for. Not sure how it’d handle the specifc frequency, though.

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It would probably be easier to make a skill that enables the input then passes the sound to a script that processes the recorded audio.
Request: Hey Mycroft: what note is this
Response: Ok go ahead and play the note
Listening enabled and passed to audio evaluation logic
Response: that was Dee Sharp.
An example of some python tuning code is located here…

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I am starting to make a sound tuner skill, that will “give me an E-string”.

I will get back when something is working.

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@baconator How to figure out which E-strings you want to gear ?

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Here is first atemp to make a sound-tuner-skill.

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Is possible trigger an action by a clap hands ? (e.g. turn on - off lights )