Comments on: Making Sphero into a Robot Companion!

By: cevinius

cevinius — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 02:18:35 +0000

I haven’t done Sphero development for a while, and it seems Sphero has shifted focus away from supporting external people who want to make apps for their products. I’ll have a look into it.

By: Mike Hensley

Mike Hensley — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:01:26 +0000

Would it be possible to update to work with sphero star wars driods and force band. I would also very much enjoy tasker integration so that I could then tie my sphero’s and Sphero R2 D2 in with my home automation. Imagine how fun it would be to have R2 or bb-8 meet you at the door when you came home.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:34:27 +0000

Yeah that would be great I have the same

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:33:18 +0000

What’s the app called

By: ambet

ambet — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:06:07 +0000

can you pls update your app so it will work with sphero sprk+?

By: cevinius

cevinius — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 23:12:20 +0000

I’m not familiar with what’s in the Kindle Fire branch of Android, so it might not have the required features… but I’m not sure. A few things to check…

Are you online? The speech recognition will only work if you are online. If you’re internet access is slow, sometimes it takes a while for it to respond.

The speech recognition is using Google’s libraries. Do other speech recognition things work on your device? E.g. Can you do voice search using Google Now?

Hopefully it’ll work for you.

By: Chip Vara

Chip Vara — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:47:11 +0000

I sideloaded com.cevinius.SpheroCompanion-1.03.apk to a Kindle Fire HDX 7″ and the program will control the ball, but when the “listen” button is pushed and the app goes into “listening mode,” there is no speech recognition. The ball still responds to the controls.

The microphones are working because I can use a recording app. I would purchase this app if it worked on a Kindle Fire and/or Windows Phone.