t3hmrman / vadas

Voice Activated Distributed Automation System

VADAS

VADAS (Voice Activated Distributed Automation System) is meant to be an extensible system for controlling devices accessible to your computer. Targeting the coming "internet" of things, VADAS applies simplest-first principles to tackling the problems posed by distributed systems and effective home automation.

VADAS stands on the shoulders of the following giants:

• CMU Sphinx
• Node Webkit (nwjs)

Setting up VADAS

To set up VADAS:

1. Install CMU Sphinx, which requires:

• sphinx-base
• pocketsphinx

2. Install node-webkit (nwjs)

Common Issuses

Unable to find libudev.so.0 while trying to install nwjs If this error pops up, usually you can check the Google Chrome shared libraries to find a version that you can use. To link to the version you'd like, you can modify your LD_LIBRARY_PATH (temporarily or in your shell config file) to include the shared libraries packed with Chrome, often found in /opt/google/chrome

For bash, this looks something like: # Add google chrome's shared libs to load path export CHROME_LIBS="/opt/google/chrome" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CHROME_LIBS:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH