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title: "Arduino Voice Control"
url: "https://maker.wiznet.io/austin/projects/arduino-voice-control/"
markdown_url: "https://maker.wiznet.io/austin/projects/arduino-voice-control/md"
type: "UCC: User Created Content"
author: "Martin Chlebovec"
author_url: "https://github.com/martinius96/Arduino-Voice-control"
editor: "WIZnet"
editor_url: "https://maker.wiznet.io/"
original_author: "Martin Chlebovec"
original_url: "https://github.com/martinius96/Arduino-Voice-control"
published: "2023-10-05"
language: "en"
tags: ["Arduino", "W5100", "Arduino Ethernet Shield"]
hardware: ["Arduino Ethernet Shield"]
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views: 669
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---

# Arduino Voice Control

> Voice control for Arduino using Ethernet Shield with built-in W5100.

Original author: Martin Chlebovec (source: https://github.com/martinius96/Arduino-Voice-control)

## Components

- **Arduino Ethernet Shield** x 1 ([docs](https://docs.arduino.cc/retired/shields/arduino-ethernet-shield-without-poe-module))

## Documents and links

- [Arduino-Voice-control](https://github.com/martinius96/Arduino-Voice-control) (code)

## Article

This code is a simple web server client example that uses Arduino to read a specific text file from a web server and control an LED based on its contents. Below is an interpretation of the main functions of the code.

**1. Library and global variable settings:**

- Import SPI and Ethernet libraries.

- Set the **led** variable to control the LED connected to digital pin 5.

- Set a unique MAC address assigned to the Arduino board.

- Set the **serverName** variable indicating the server's domain.

- Set the IP address of Arduino.

- Create an EthernetClient object and set the **client** variable responsible for communicating with the web server.

- Set the **readString** variable for string parsing.

- Set variables representing the number of lines and newline characters.

```c
#include <SPI.h>
#include <Ethernet.h>
const int led = 5;
byte mac[] = { 0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED }; //MAC address
char serverName[] = "www.arduino.php5.sk"; // website for example test
IPAddress ip(192, 168, 2, 40); //IP address
EthernetClient client; //client mode
String readString; //our parsing variable
int x=0; //line counter
char lf=10; //line feed
```

**2. Setup function:**

- Set the LED pin to output mode.

- Initialize Ethernet using DHCP, if failed, try again using a static IP address.

- Initialize serial communication.

```c
void setup(){
 pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
 if (Ethernet.begin(mac) == 0) {
    Serial.println("DHCP unsucessful, trying again.");
    Ethernet.begin(mac, ip); //try with our IP (static)
  }
  Serial.begin(9600); 
}
```

**3. Loop function:**

- Sends an HTTP GET request to the web server, requesting the contents of a specific text file (**/PHP_en/translations.txt**).

- If the connection is successful, data is read from the web server and the data is output to the serial monitor.

- Analyzes the received data and executes commands to turn the LED on or off.

```c
void loop(){
if (client.connect(serverName, 80)) { //Try HTTP connection
    Serial.println("Connected");
    client.println("GET /PHP_en/translations.txt HTTP/1.1"); //stiahni text zo suboru
    client.println("Host: www.arduino.php5.sk"); //host --> rovnako ako v serverName
    client.println("Connection: close");  //ukonc pripojenie
    client.println(); //koniec requestu
  } 
  else {
    Serial.println("Connection unsucessful."); //Chybova hlaska o neuspesnom pripojeni na webserver
    Serial.println();
  }
  while(client.connected() && !client.available()) delay(1); //little wait...
  while (client.connected() || client.available()) { //if we are connected.. read
    char c = client.read(); //read bytes from buffer
    Serial.print(c); //raw feed from web with header
    if (c==lf) x=(x+1); //count lines
    else if (x==12) readString += c; //build string
   } 
if(readString=="Turn on"){
 digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
 }
 else if(readString=="Turn off"){
 digitalWrite(led, LOW);
 }
 else{
 Serial.println("Unsupported string, change on-line your voice/text input."); //bad string
Serial.println(readString); //write to serial monitor what we got in variable
 }
  readString = (""); //clear String 
  x=0; //clear line counter
  client.stop(); //stop request
  delay(5000); //again run loop after 5 seconds
}
```

In other words, this code is an example of Arduino reading a specific text file from a web server, analyzing its contents, and controlling the LED according to the results.

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Source: https://maker.wiznet.io/austin/projects/arduino-voice-control/