Skills

Now that you installed Maxx-AI in your system, you can start using it. Try these to get started.

To activate Maxx-AI, you should press on the icon from system tray located at the right side of taskbar. Once Maxx-AI is activated. You can speak the command. Maxx-AI uses wit.ai as nlp. When Maxx-AI determines what action to perform, it will perform the skill. Maxx-AI comes with a collection of skills. Each of the skill ins introduced below with a brief description followed by example utterances.

Maxx-AI uses a NLP, so the commands need not be exact as shown in the examples down below. It should be some what relevant to it.

Default Skills

Date & Time

Query Date

Hey Maxx, what is today's date?
Hey Maxx, tell date
Hey Maxx, what is today
Hey Maxx, tell date of today

Query Time

Hey Maxx, what's the time now?
Hey Maxx, tell time
Hey Maxx, tell current time

Taking Note and Screenshot

Note

Hey Maxx, Take a note
Hey Maxx, note this down
Hey Maxx, note it
Hey Maxx, make a note

Maxx-Ai will ask "What should I write?". Then tell the contents to be noted. It will create a text file with your content, which can be found on your documents folder.

Screenshot

Hey Maxx, Take a screenshot
Hey Maxx, Grab a screenshot

Maxx-Ai will take a screenshot of your screen and save it on your pictures folder.

Battery

Hey Maxx, What's my battery percentage?
Hey Maxx, Is my battery charging?
Hey Maxx, Tell battery status

Places

Hey Maxx, Show me the location of tokyo
Hey Maxx, where is moscow?
Hey Maxx, show me the position of berlin 

Maxx-AI will show you the location in google maps.

Speak

Hey Maxx, Speak Hello World
Hey Maxx, Speak I am an AI.

Support

Hey Maxx, Contact support
Hey Maxx, Open support page

Maxx-AI will open the user support located here.

Entertainment Skills

Songs

VLC is required for these features to work.

Editing Config

Your songs should be in a single directory(may contain sub-folders). Note the path of your songs directory. Open the directory where you installed Maxx-AI. There you will find a folder named assets, open it. There will a file named config.json, open that file. On the contents of the file, search and find line starting like this "songs_path":"your songs folder here". Replace it with your songs directory, replace \ with \\ (double backslash).

C:\Users\Public\Videos\Songs -> before replacing 
C:\\Users\\Public\\Videos\\Songs -> after replacing

After replacing it inside config.json file it should look like this

"songs_path":"C:\\Users\\Public\\Videos\\Songs"

Once you completed, now we need to setup the media player. The default media player is VLC. If you don't have VLC kindly install it. if you want to use other media players, some of the features of Maxx-AI won't work. You need to copy the path where vlc.exe is located on C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\ . open config.json and find line starting like "media_player". In cmd section replace it with the path you copied along with vlc.exe.

After replacing, it should look like this

"media_player": {
         "name": "vlc",
         "cmd": "C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe"
      }

If you want to use other media player, change the name and cmd section with your media player's name and location of executable file.

Playing Songs

Once you completed the above setup, you can ask Maxx-AI to play favorite song. Maxx-AI will search that song on your songs directory and play it. You can also ask Maxx-AI to play a random song.

Hey Maxx, play hope song
Hey Maxx, could you play believer song
Hey Maxx, play remedy for a broken heart song
Hey Maxx, play random song <-- Maxx-AI will play random song

Playing Playlist

You should have .xspf file containing all your songs. Each xspf is considered as a playlist.

Hey Maxx, play tentacion playlist
Hey Maxx, play gym playlist
Hey Maxx, play gaming playlist

Apps & Websites Skills

Editing Config

You can also use the dashboard to add and edit services.

Open the directory where you installed Maxx-AI. There you will find a folder named assets, open it. There will a file named config.json, open that file. On the contents of the file, search and find line starting like this "services":"[..]". This is where you will configure websites and apps. Maxx-AI comes with some websites and apps preloaded.

"services": [
      {
         "name": "google",
         "type": "website",
         "alias": [
            "google"
         ],
         "url": "https://google.com/",
         "search_url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=",
         "app": "none"
      },
      {
         "name": "youtube",
         "type": "website",
         "alias": [
            "youtube",
            "yt"
         ],
         "url": "https://www.youtube.com/",
         "search_url": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=",
         "app": "none"
      }
      ]

This is an example of an service. If you want to create a custom service, note this. "name" is the name of service. "type" is to indicate that the service is an app or website, if both enter hybrid. "alias" is how will you call this website. "url" is the url of the site. "search_url" is search url of that particular site. "app" is the exe file of that application.

Adding a custom service

Let us add VLC Media Player in service list.

"services": [
      {
         "name": "vlc",
         "type": "app",
         "alias": [
            "vlc",
            "vlc media player",
            "videolan"
         ],
         "url": "none",
         "search_url": "none",
         "app": "C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe"
      }
      ]

Since VLC is an application, it is not necessary to enter the url and search url.

Opening Websites

Once you the completed the above setup, now you can ask Maxx-AI to open websites.

Hey Maxx, open google website
Hey Maxx, open facebook
Hey Maxx, open youtube

Searching on websites

You can ask Maxx-AI to search for something on websites. Maxx-AI will search it, and display the results on your browser.

Hey Maxx, search for cat videos on youtube
Hey Maxx, search for trees on google
Hey Maxx, search for raspberry pi on amazon
Hey Maxx,  search on amazon for kids toys

Opening Apps

You can ask Maxx-AI to open applications. You should add the executable file's path to config.json file, or this won't work.

Hey Maxx, open vlc app
Hey Maxx, open excel
Hey Maxx, open notepad software
Hey Maxx, open steam

If you specified a service as hybrid (both app and website). Max-AI will pick from

"service_default" option in the config.json file

Clients

List out connected devices

You can ask Maxx-AI to list out all connected devices (clients).

Hey Maxx, list out all connected devices
Hey Maxx, list out all connected clients
Hey Maxx, What devices are connected

Refresh Clients

You can ask Maxx-AI to refresh clients, this will refresh the connection between clients.

Hey Maxx, refresh all connected clients
Hey Maxx, refresh all connected devices
Hey Maxx, refersh all devices

Remove Client

You can ask Maxx-AI to remove a client. This will close the connection between server and client.

Hey Maxx, remove mobile
Hey Maxx, remove laptop from connected clients
Hey Maxx, remove tablet from conected devices