When you're finished with this tutorial you'll be able to remotely open apps on your PC with your voice as seen in this video at 2:23:



To complete this tutorial you'll need:

• Join
• Join for Chrome or Windows 10
• Tasker
• AutoVoice
• Windows PC
• EventGhost

STEP 1 - ENABLE GOOGLE NOW INTEGRATION FOR AUTOVOICE

STEP 2 - SETUP TASKER PROFILE TO LISTEN FOR COMMAND

• Open Tasker
• Create new profile
• Choose the "AutoVoice Recognized" event
• Set the command filter to "open (?<app>.+) on my pc" (no quotes)
• enable the regex option
• accept these settings and create the correspondent task

STEP 3 - SHOW THAT %APP IS SET CORRECTLY AND SEND MESSAGE TO PC

• Add a "Flash" action with the text "Opening %app on PC" just to check if the variable was set correctly
• Add a "Join Send Push" action
• Select your Chrome or Windows 10 device
• Set the "Text" field to "launch=:=%app" (no quotes)
• Accept these settings
• Back out of Tasker to save this new profile
• Test this voice command by saying "open rayman on my PC" for example. You should now see the flash on your phone and a notification on your PC with the text "launch=:=rayman"

You have received the correct command, we now need to send it to EventGhost

• Setup the EventGhost AutoRemote plugin as described here

STEP 4 - SET THE EVENTGHOST AUTOREMOTE PORT IN JOIN SETTINGS

• Open Join's settings either in Chrome or the Windows 10 app
• Set the EventGhost Port to 1818 (or something else if you changed it while setting up AutoRemote in EventGhost)
• In EventGhost, select the "Configuration Tree" item on the right and paste this text with Ctrl-V:
  Code (Text):

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <EventGhost Version="1688">
      <Macro Name="Launch App From AutoRemote" Expanded="True">
          <Event Name="AutoRemote.Message.launch" />
          <Action>
              Window.SendKeys(u'{Win}', False)
          </Action>
          <Action>
              EventGhost.Wait(0.5)
          </Action>
          <Action>
              Window.SendKeys(u'{eg.event.payload.arcomm}{Return}', False)
          </Action>
      </Macro>
  </EventGhost>

This will create a Macro that reacts to the "launch=:=" command we saw earlier. This macro presses the window key, writes down the name of the app and presses Return.

Everything should work now!

• You say the "open rayman on my pc" command on your phone
• you should see the message being sent to Join on your PC...
• ...which then redirects it to EventGhost
• EventGhost launches the app