DronesoundTV Crash Course 2 w/Feature Review, Sub-Back Bot Explained and More
Channel: DronesoundTV
Date: 16/09/2016

Best intro yet to DTV, demonstrating basic remote-control from chat, "droning", and changing the display. I also discuss wild new theme features and explain at length how the "Sub Back Bot" works (which it always does).  A shortcut to topics will follow in comments shortly.

▬ Documentation ▬
●  User Guide 1.0 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RIjdt0-NWft7Inn0GdLpTTwE3QejkxU8J4bpz_JoyJw/pub
● Crash Course - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYspO5hkMnU
● DTV Tech Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfhicpvfwoM
● Diagram - https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/10261470291442867.png

▬ Exlusive Features ▬
● Sub-back Bot 
World's first automatic sub-back bot for YouTube.

● YouTube's Coolest Shoutouts
Just type SHOUTOUT. Feel free to abuse, your shoutouts keep Dronebot awake.

● Disappearing Ink
Subscriber exclusive: Put a hyphen (the "dash" character, "-") in front of anything in chat, and it vanishes in a few seconds. Example:

    - This message will self destruct

● Random SoundCloud
Type MIX RANDOM to play from a random selection of curated tracks. SoundCloud experts, type MIX by itself for advanced instructions. Note: The track author MUST allow downloads. For example:

Welcome to DronesoundTV, an ambient-noise and glitch-visual sandbox controlled by chat. Type HELP to get started, then read on...

You control DroneBot, who mixes millions of sound effects and songs with "lo-fi" visuals, according to your whims.

Control the bot by typing commands into chat. Most commands tell you how to use them if you type their name. Commands don't have to be entered in uppercase, it just reads easier.

▬ Common Commands ▬
COMMANDS (List all commands)
SHOUTOUT (Coolest shoutouts on YouTube)
MIX random (Random pre-selected music)
DRONE voicemail (Add [voicemail] related samples)
MOOD scifi (Change sfx genre. Type MOOD for a list.)
BG (Change random background. Also try BG me)
THEME default (Change layout. Type THEME for a list.)
SUB (Our "Sub-Back Bot", for subs w/out private subs.)


MIX http://soundcloud.com/mike-leghorn/chromatic-fantasy


▬ Subscriber Benefits ▬
Subs get access to Beta stuff, including...

  .ANSI
  Add lo-fi animations! Type .ANSI (with dot) to begin.

  .STYLE
  Srsly. Hack own theme via PasteBin.  .STYLE for help. *Beta*!

▬ How It Works ▬
Complete Geek Intel at Hackaday:
https://hackaday.io/project/11971-dronetv-autonomous-pirate-dronesound-livestream

Here at DronesoundTV, a Raspberry Pi single-board Linux computer uses keywords and your requests to choose sounds from the latest uploads at http://freesound.org.

It modifies and remixes them according to the artist's own obscure sampling technique and livestreams the results directly to You (Tube).

Popular sounds are "followed" to samples similar in BPM and pitch, which become part of the mix and again may be followed to new samples.

▬ StageGhost ▬
The back-end of DroneBot is "StageGhost", a product-soon to be released in beta (stay tuned to get your own!).

StageGhost manages the chat, handles user requests, bans cursing violators, posts sampling credits and does pretty much everything else. Many more features are in the works. 

Use the "COMMANDS" command for a list of everything DroneBot can currently do for you.

▬ Code ▬
U geeky bro? K, check out Early Adopter's Kit (for Linux) at
https://hackaday.io/project/11971-dronetv-autonomous-pirate-dronesound-livestream

* IF YOU LIKE DTV, please tell friends! I hope to Kickstart a Mac Mini for the stream, greatly improving audio quality.*

▬ Commented Drones ▬
Drone 331330 # Weird cool with vocoder
Drone 165241 # The Janitor Story

▬ DronesoundTV the Art Project ▬
DronesoundTV is a Conceptual Art project under development by lo-fi performance artist "Die, Master Monkey" (@garyd) and Interactive Designer "OkBop".

▬ Subscribe ▬
Subscribe and stay tuned, I will be offering easy all-in-one kits soon. Check out http://youtube.com/diemastermonkey for more lo-fi beats, drone and artsy stuff.

▬ Credits ▬
Freesound.org API (thank you!!)
YouTube Data and LiveStream APIs (thank you!!)
MakeAGif.com
sox
img2txt
caca-utils
Perl, Java/script and a wee bit of Python