Elekt Labs Foxtrot Sound Procesor (ELFoxSound)

Basic characteristics

ELFoxSound is an application that reads data from a Tecomat Foxtrot PLC and then plays it through a standard sound card using the Epos speech synthesizer.

Properties

Properties
  • Supports PLC Tecomat Foxtrot
  • The speech synthesizer Epos (language support: Czech, Slovak)
Product version Order number
ELFoxSound Freeware

Installation

  1. First download and install the speech synthesizer Epos.
  2. Download and unzip the ELFoxSound program.
  3. Application settings are in the ini file.

Tips and tricks

Mosaic - project configuration
Mosaic - project configuration.
  • Use Bluetooth repro to distribute sound inside the building
  • Use a long range Bluetooth dongle
  • To simplify distribution of PLC of PUB file, add it into PLC web root. The application will automatically download it:
  1. In Mosaic, open "Project Manager/Sw/Export Files/Sending Files To PLC"
  2. Set "Auto send newer files to PLC" and "Send assembler file (.pub)" to true
  3. Set "Shorter file name" to: "www\var"
  4. NOTE: It doesn't work if you have PLC name shorter then 9 characters.

PLC program example

// Text to Speech
TTTS:STRUCT
Voice:byte; // Voice number. 0-Default
Msg:string; // Text to say (win1250 encoding)
END_STRUCT;
if System_S.PERIOD_PULSE_10SEC then
TTS.Msg:='Vážení, někdo k Vám jde na návštěvu. Běžte mu laskavě otevřít. Děkuji.';
else
TTS.Msg:='';
end_if;