Elite Observatory - Search your journal for potentially interesting objects, or notify you of new ones on the fly while exploring!
- Thread starter Vithigar
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Let me cheat (nothing on your GH right now), maybe that can be done in EDD too.
Top answer here, option 2. Injecting the voices into the speech object via reflection.
SpeechSynthesizer doesn't get all installed voices 3
I have added many voices using "Add language" under region and language. These appear under Text-to-speech in Speech. (I am using Windows 10) I want to use these in my app with the SpeechSynthesizer
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Could also modify the SpeechSynthesizer class accordingly to get all the voices and use your own modified implementation.
This is a windows application, it will not run on an iPad. "Portable" just means a version that does not require any installation and keeps all its stored data within its own folder. Not that it is made for portable devices.
Portable application - Wikipedia
Is there a way to also use other free non-Microsoft TTS voices and make Observatory access them? I'm an absolute noob when it comes to stuff like this so I am sorry if this is an impossible request, but I already miss the Irish-English Emily voice and it made me look up free TTS voices until I came across Piper TTS. The "en_GB-alba-medium" voice you can listen to on their sample page (linked on their github) sounds very pleasant to me and I'd love for it to somehow work with Observatory. Maybe someone smarter than me can explain if or if not that is something, that's possible.
Either way, thanks so much for your tool. Can't believe I only recently started using it despite being around since waaaay before it was even a thing and loving exploration. Never want to miss it now! o7
Anything that shows up in the voices list of windows speech settings should be available in 1.2, once it releases.
Version 1.2.0 is now available for paid Patreon members. General release for all will follow Sunday night at midnight.
Verion 1.2.0 is a significant UI refactor based on post 1.0 feedback and a number of long standing requests. The "Core" tab has been completely reworked to present the plugin list in a more useful fashion, and each has its own menu button for common functionality rather than the unintuitive need to select items before hitting the buttons below. Core application settings have also moved out into their own window to reduce core tab clutter.
Important: This version breaks compatibility with many plugins. It will be necessary to update them before they will function correctly.
Also, of particular note is native support for popping plugin tabs out into separate windows, which is a request that goes almost as far back as the initial release of Observatory Core.
Finally, this update unfortunately removes the Observatory Herald plugin from the installation bundle. A recent increse in popularity of both Observatory and Elite Dangerous in particular led to a significant increase in costs for the Azure-provided voices and it was no longer sustainable to cover those costs myself. In lieu of Herald voices a long standing issue where native voice notifications do not show all installed Windows voices has been fixed. Herald will likely return in the future as a Patreon backer perk.
Download Elite Observatory Core
Tool for reading/monitoring Elite Dangerous journals for interesting objects.
observatory.xjph.net
Verion 1.2.0 is a significant UI refactor based on post 1.0 feedback and a number of long standing requests. The "Core" tab has been completely reworked to present the plugin list in a more useful fashion, and each has its own menu button for common functionality rather than the unintuitive need to select items before hitting the buttons below. Core application settings have also moved out into their own window to reduce core tab clutter.
Important: This version breaks compatibility with many plugins. It will be necessary to update them before they will function correctly.
Also, of particular note is native support for popping plugin tabs out into separate windows, which is a request that goes almost as far back as the initial release of Observatory Core.
Finally, this update unfortunately removes the Observatory Herald plugin from the installation bundle. A recent increse in popularity of both Observatory and Elite Dangerous in particular led to a significant increase in costs for the Azure-provided voices and it was no longer sustainable to cover those costs myself. In lieu of Herald voices a long standing issue where native voice notifications do not show all installed Windows voices has been fixed. Herald will likely return in the future as a Patreon backer perk.
- Refactored "Core" tab
- New plugin list
- Plugins which fail to load will now still be listed with a status of "Error"
- Plugin-specific actions have been moved from separate buttons to a menu button on the plugin list
- Application settings are now found through the "Core Settings" button instead of displayed at all times
- Basic monitoring stats added to the bottom of the tab
- Implemented plugin "popout" feature
- Added right-click context menu to plugin tabs with "popout", "settings", and "open data folder" options
- Botanist now displays distance from previous biological samples on its overlay popup
- Explorer custom criteria expanded with new annotations for handling more events, for details see the custom criteria documentation
- Expand native voice selection
- Fix issue where having no audio devices could cause a crash on startup
- Fix issue where starting minimised would cause errors (/nomin startup option no longer required for min-ed-launcher users)
- Added list of patreon supporters to "about" info
- No longer check or enforce plugin signing
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Outstanding as always Vithigar! Being able to “pop out” ALL the individual plugins will be amazing for those of us with a extra displays…
It's probably one of the oldest feature requests I had for Observatory Core. Was long overdue!
For those who use my plugins (by fredjk-gh), I've got 1.2-ready beta versions up and available: https://github.com/fredjk-gh/ObservatoryPlugins/releases/tag/v1.0.3.32704-beta
If you have my Auto-updater installed, it should take care of it if "Allow beta versions" is enabled. If not, just enable that setting and it should do the rest.
This release of plugins will NOT work on Observatory Core versions earlier than 1.2 (and AutoUpdater will not install them on earlier versions of ObsCore).
If you have issues, find me in the Observatory Core discord. Enjoy!
Download Elite Observatory Core
Tool for reading/monitoring Elite Dangerous journals for interesting objects.
observatory.xjph.net
This is the public release of v1.2.0 and also fixes several bugs which were identified with that version.
Enjoy!
v1.2.0 Release Notes
Version 1.2.0 is a significant UI refactor based on post 1.0 feedback and a number of long standing requests. The "Core" tab has been completely reworked to present the plugin list in a more useful fashion, and each has its own menu button for common functionality rather than the unintuitive need to select items before hitting the buttons below. Core application settings have also moved out into their own window to reduce core tab clutter.Also, of particular note is native support for popping plugin tabs out into separate windows, which is a request that goes almost as far back as the initial release of Observatory Core.
Finally, this update unfortunately removes the Observatory Herald plugin from the installation bundle. A recent increase in popularity of both Observatory and Elite Dangerous in particular led to a significant increase in costs for the Azure-provided voices and it was no longer sustainable to cover those costs myself. In lieu of Herald voices a long standing issue where native voice notifications do not show all installed Windows voices has been fixed. Herald will likely return in the future as a Patreon backer perk.
- Refactored "Core" tab
- New plugin list
- Plugins which fail to load will now still be listed with a status of "Error"
- Plugin-specific actions have been moved from separate buttons to a menu button on the plugin list
- Application settings are now found through the "Core Settings" button instead of displayed at all times
- Basic monitoring stats added to the bottom of the tab
- Implemented plugin "popout" feature
- Added right-click context menu to plugin tabs with "popout", "settings", and "open data folder" options
- Botanist now displays distance from previous biological samples on its overlay popup
- Explorer custom criteria expanded with new annotations for handling more events, for details see the custom criteria documentation
- Expand native voice selection
- Fix issue where having no audio devices could cause a crash on startup
- Fix issue where starting minimised would cause errors (/nomin startup option no longer required for min-ed-launcher users)
- Added list of patreon supporters to "about" info
- No longer check or enforce plugin signing
v1.2.1 Bug Fixes
- Fixes scaling issues in several places when display scaling was not set to 100%
- Correctly saves and restores if plugins have been disabled
- Added warning when enabling an out of date plugin
- Fix issue where the panel content left behind when a plugin was popped out would not resize with the application window
- Prevent single plugins with both "worker" and "notifier" interfaces from being listed twice
- Save locations of popout windows when they are closed and re-opened
- Ignore and proceed in odd edge case where the crash log could not be written to prevent actual error from being masked by crash log write failure
- Add a placeholder "no devices present" entry for the audio dropdown when no audio devices are present at all
- Stop processing of new "Jump", "Discovery", "BodySignals", and "AllBodies" custom journal processing when custom criteria are disabled
- Correct issue where plugins could no longer correctly set plugin focus when target plugin was popped out
Dropped 1.2.2 last night with a couple of small fixes for bugs most people wouldn't've encountered, but were absolute show-stoppers for those who did.
- Fixes sizing issue on some lower resolution displays
- Restores functionality to change journal path by double-clicking journal folder location
I may be missing something - as I'm a complete dunce when it comes to this stuff - but, when there is a planet found with life, the text in "botanist shows as usual, but there is no audio voice announcing the fact. Is that just how it is at the moment?
I haven't had the chance to see if the "minimum distance" between colonies is voiced yet. Does that work still?
Also, I downloaded the latest bioinsights plugin and let it install itself into Observatory. I then ran a "read all". Now, it says "Refreshing..." and has sat there for quite some time. Is it just something that takes a while to complete?
If you were previously using Herald you may have to manually enable the native voice notifications.
That was part of BioInsights, which does not yet have a release compatible with 1.2. That said, the Botanist sampling overlay has been updated to display a realtime distance tracker from your previous sample(s), which may suffice for now.
See previous answer. That plugin does not yet work with Observatory 1.2.
Great, thanks!