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Knowledge Base
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Voice Remote
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The circular logo at the top of your Voice Remote lights up in different colors, to show what the remote is doing. The table below summarizes what each color means.
RED ON
Microphone on, listening for speech commands
RED FLASHING
Unable to establish wireless microphone link: check USB dongle is plugged in, and remote hasn't moved out of range
GREEN ON
Plugged in to USB cable and fully charged
GREEN FLASHING (SLOW)
Plugged in to USB cable and currently charging
GREEN FLASHING (FAST BURST)
Entering deep sleep mode (press the green Media Center Start button to wake it up again)
DARK BLUE ON
Transmitting a built-in Media Center remote keystroke
LIGHT BLUE ON
Transmitting a learned keystroke
LIGHT BLUE FLASHING (MEDIUM)
In learning mode, waiting for a key stroke
LIGHT BLUE FLASHING (FAST)
In erase mode
LIGHT BLUE FLASHING (FAST BURST)
Successful learning or erasing
AMBER FLASHING
Failed to learn or erase a button, low battery, memory full, or general error
PURPLE FLASHING
In pairing mode, waiting to pair with a new USB dongle |
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Does Amulet work with the standard Windows Media Center screens? |
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General
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Yes, most Amulet commands operate from anywhere within Media Center. We do recommend that you use the special Amulet user interface screens whilst you are becoming familiar with Amulet, since they provide immediate visual feedback to let you know your commands are being recognised.
As you become more used to Amulet, you can start to use the commands independently of whatever screen you are viewing. You can even issue Amulet commands when your screen is turned off, if you have your audio output connected to separate speakers. |
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Can't Play Movie error when selecting a movie by voice |
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Movie Commands
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Storing video and movie files in the root level of a drive letter causes the media to index correctly but playback incorrectly (symptom is "can't play movie" error when selecting a movie by voice).
The easy fix is to move all such files into a sub-folder under the drive letter (Y:Movies, etc.).
Alternatively, a more complicated fix is to edit Amulet.ini to explicitly list folders to index, and add an extra backslash after any drive letters on their own (Y:\ instead of Y:), which then works fine. But it's also necessary to disable Scanxxx settings to stop Scanner automatically including the media center and shell folders.
Known issue in software version 2.17.50
Forum discussion thread |
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Music Commands
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WHAT GENRES DO I HAVE?
WHAT GENRES CAN I SAY?
WHAT ARE THE GENRES?
TELL ME MY GENRES
TELL ME ABOUT GENRES
Calls out up to five musical genres available in your music collection. Repeat the command to listen to further choices, or use the PLAY GENRE command (below) to start playing music from a particular genre.
PLAY GENRE {GENRE NAME} [MUSIC]
PLAY SOME {GENRE NAME} [MUSIC]
PLAY GENRE NUMBER {NUM }
SHOW GENRE {GENRE NAME} [MUSIC]
SHOW SOME {GENRE NAME} [MUSIC]
SHOW GENRE NUMBER {NUM }
Plays or shows a random mix of up to 100 tracks from the selected musical genre.
{GENRE NAME}
The name of a musical genre in your music library, used to categorize music by type.
{NUM }
The number of a musical genre in your music library, using the numbering scheme displayed by the command SHOW GENRES.
EXAMPLES
PLAY SOME ROCK MUSIC
PLAY GENRE COUNTRY
(SHOW / HIDE) GENRES
Show or hides the list of genres in your music library. |
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Voice Remote
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Your Amulet Voice Remote includes all of the standard Microsoft buttons used to control Windows Media Center. Below is a quick reminder of what they do.
Navigation Controls
The navigation controls form the main interaction point with the user interface.
Numeric keypad
The numeric keypad is used to enter numbers in Windows Media Center.
Audio / Video Controls
Use these controls to adjust the volume, mute sound and change channels. The green button takes you to the Media Center start page.
Sleep Mode
This button puts your Media Center to sleep, to conserve power, or wakes it up again.
Transport Controls
The transport controls are used to control playback of your digital music and video media files.
TV Power
You can program this button to turn on and off your TV. For more info, see the next chapter.
Shortcut buttons
These go to an experience— such as live or recorded TV, the TV guide, or a DVD—by pressing a single button.
Interactive TV buttons
These buttons are used with TV experiences such as Teletext or Broadcast Markup Language (BML). |
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