App Update: Soundboard 1.8.0

A new update to the Soundboard application on Google Play has been released.

What's New
A new Tone Generation feature, which allows the user to generate sine-wave tones and play them back.
Also a bug fix - on the DTMF screen, swiping between the screens would effectively have the effect if the DTMF buttons being stuck in a pressed state, causing a continuous playing of the tone. The layout of that screen has been amended to reduce the occurrence of this happening.

Usage
From the app's start screen, use the Tone Generator button, or swipe across to access the tone generation module. On that screen, use the slider or text box to select your chosen frequency, set the duration, and hit generate to play the tone The module is also subject to the volume controls of the rest of the application - go to preferences in the menu and you'll be able to choose whether or not to dynamically set the volume level on playback, and set the volume level if you so wish.

Support
As with all my apps, it is free, and as such, I am not in a position to offer any kind of official support, so use entirely at your own risk.
If you have any trouble with it, then feel free leave a comment or tweet and I'll try to help as and when I can, but I make no guarantees.

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App Update - Soundboard Version 1.7

What's New

• DTMF Tone generator
• Bug fix - playback volume level didn't change after initial set, now fixed.
• Bug fix - Text-to-Speech playback ignored the playback volume level, now fixed.

Usage

On open the user will be presented with three buttons to load the following sections. or alternatively swipe between them:

• Load files from Storage - This will load the regular soundboard as in previous versions and display the files in a list ready for playback. Note, if you swipe across to the soundboard screen from the start of the app, you will need to select Load from the options menu to populate the list.
• Generate speech from Text - This will load the text-to-speech interface, where they can enter text and play it back to inject custom phrases into their soundboard.
• DTMF Tones - This new feature allows you to generate DTMF (dual-tone multi frequency) tones - which are the noises generated when pressing the numerical buttons on a telephone keypad. Useful for, say, messing with annoying robocallers.

Support
As with all my apps, it is free, and as such, I am not in a position to offer any kind of official support, so use entirely at your own risk.
If you have any trouble with it, then feel free leave a comment or tweet and I'll try to help as and when I can, but I make no guarantees.

App Update - Bluetooth Macro Input v.1.5

What's New

• Command support - now send keystrokes for non-character keys - function keys, CTRL, ALT, etc.
• Bug fix - Bluetooth no longer connects on application load - this prevents some crashing on open. Connection happens when the first bit of text is sent.

Usage
On first run, use the menu button, select settings from the menu and set the options you wish to use.

The most important settings to choose here are "Use Bluetooth Connection" and the bluetooth MAC address for your device. If you do not set a directory for storing your macro files, the default directory is a folder called "BluetoothMacroFiles" under your devices storage location (e.g. /storage/emulated/0/BluetoothMacroFiles).

Once that's done, you can swipe between the two main screens. The first is the voice recognition screen. Tap the button, speak, wait for Google voice recognition to process your speech and a series of possible options are presented.
Tap your chosen option and the device will attempt to send that text through to the bluetooth adapter.

The second screen allows you to select a text file from the menu and send that via bluetooth. The new functionality allows you to define keystrokes for non-character keys - handy for sending commands. For example, a text file containing the following:

{F11}Hello World

will 'press' the F11 key, and then type "Hello World". The extra keys you can type in this manner are:

CTRL SHIFT ALT RIGHT_CTRL RIGHT_SHIFT RIGHT_ALT RIGHT_GUI BACKSPACE TAB RETURN ESC INSERT DELETE PAGE_UP PAGE_DOWN HOME END CAPS_LOCK

RIGHT LEFT UP DOWN F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12

The arduino sketch adapter I use with the app is detailed here, and the hardware is a Pro Micro with a simple Bluetooth-to-Serial adapter.
In order to get the command functionality working I had to amend the arduino sketch - revised version below:

void setup() {
  Serial1.begin(115200);
  Keyboard.begin();
}

void loop() {
  if (Serial1.available() > 0) {
    byte inChar = Serial1.read();
    Keyboard.write(inChar);
    Serial1.write(inChar);
    delay(10);
  }
}

Support
As with all my apps, it is free, and as such, I am not in a position to offer any kind of official support, so use entirely at your own risk.
If you have any trouble with it, then feel free leave a comment or tweet and I'll try to help as and when I can, but I make no guarantees.



Previous Versions
The original app
First update