I have a room full of sales representatives. Currently, when they make a sale, they write it on the board and ring a bell next to the board. Lately we've been too busy for them to get up and ring the bell. I would like to have a small window or application open on their computer that has a button and then I have a separate window or application open that when they click the button it makes a bell sound. I do not want this to play on the other reps computers - just mine. Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be done?
Yes! You can make a new dummy Facebook account, and the 'button' will be entering anything in the private messages, so you will hear a sound there. However, you will have to avoid using other Facebook accounts on the same computer.
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This might be too simple to find an easy solution for.
We are moving to a system where our staff clock on and clock off using a QR or Bar code.
We can provide each staff member with their own QR code on a sticker and they clock on/off by passing it under the scanner as they arrive/depart. (Typically this is stuck on the back of their phone.)
A better option would be to display the code on the screen of the phone itself. This can be done by saving the code in the photo gallery and displaying it for scanning but this is quite fiddly and the whole point is to streamline the process.
Any suggestions?
I thought there might be a way to create a home screen icon that links to an image and displays it but if so it alludes me.
Failing this I thought there might be an app to achieve the same result but I have not been able to find one.
First, have a imgur or any other photo sharing accounts. Then, put all the staff's qrcodes in there and assign each their own qrcode link which they can add to home screen
The link will look something like this
https://i.imgur.com/9EQgzFm.png
I'm modifying toys I've found at thrift stores. I want to be able to flip the on switch and have the toy move until I turn it off. Unfortunately 90% of these toys only work when you turn them on and then press a button to see them dance or go through various motions. I've tried connecting the two wires that go into the button but it only plays through the motion once and then stops.
My idea right now is to attach the wires to a timer so they are activated every 60 seconds or so. Does anyone know how to make a timer like that? Arduino could work but I'd rather do something easier and cheaper.
I attached images of the button that activates the toy. Im hoping to find something that I can just connect to those wires as most of these toys use the same button.
Thank you so much for any help!
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You can use 555 timer. Several tutorials are available online to vary the frequency of "ticking" of the clock.
I am running an experiment in Google Analytics and I want to stop it. I am reading the documentation at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2366607?hl=en and it says:
To stop a running experiment:
In the experiment list, click the name of the experiment that you want to stop.
In the menu bar, click STOP EXPERIMENT, then click the confirmation.
Where is the "menu bar" that they mention, which is where I am supposed to find this "STOP EXPERIMENT" link. Look at what I get when I go to my running experiment:
Edit:
It is right there. It says "Stop Experiment" in the navigation area on top with the gray background. I was expecting to find something more prominent like a button that is easy to see/find. This would probably be a usability feedback for Google, that they should make that button more prominent. I am used to running experiments in Optimizely and they have the play or pause button in a much more prominent way. I like the graphical user interface of Optimizely better than Google Analytics's GUI.
I found it. It says "Stop Experiment" in the navigation bar with the gray background.
My HTC Vive is set up in a different room to my developer workstation. When developing for A-Frame, I understand I can: use my desktop monitor instead of a headset; use mouse dragging instead of motion controls; use WASD instead of room-scale tracking. However, what is the preferred way to simulate the tracked controllers?
For example, how can I move the cubes in this demo from my desktop: https://aframe.io/examples/showcase/tracked-controllers
This is not yet released, but we're working on tools to be able to record camera and controllers, output to a file, and then you can load it up any device and replay the camera and controller pose and events without needing a headset. Project is led by Diego:
https://github.com/dmarcos/aframe-motion-capture
http://swimminglessonsformodernlife.com/aframe-motion-capture/examples/
This will become the common way to develop for VR without having to enter and re-enter VR to test each code change, and to do it on the go
Is there a good way to trigger a Windows Store background task when a band tile is opened? And are there any examples for working with the band from a background task with the latest SDK? I have seen mentions of the ability to do so but can't find any code examples of this.
I have a scenario where the tile's content is only valid for a short time (~30 seconds) and would like to wake up a background service on the phone while the band's tile is open to update the content as needed.
I was hoping to find an IBackgroundTrigger in the SDK that would do the trick but no luck there. The best I can think of to fill this need would be to have a task that uses a system trigger and hooks up listeners for the tile opened/closed events. This seems like a lot of unnecessary work for the task though and could end up with unnecessary battery usage on the phone.
Thanks,
Tony
I'm afraid that is not possible. As far as I can see from the SDK, the app on the phone has to be running to allow a tile on the band to send an event back to the phone.
An alternative would be to open your app from the Band using a voice command. Would that solve your problem?