[eckythump]

--- UPDATE ---

So I updated to the latest release and have it working, hooray!

I did need to jump through a few hoops to get it going, though, mostly due to the fact that my backend doesn't work out-of-the-box and needs to be configured.

When I first booted with the new version, my default engine was still set to 'ttsd' from my own previous testing using hard-coded values specifically tailored for my network at home. When the new version started, it then was trying to use 127.0.0.1 and that caused things to really break, to the point that xbmc would completely crash and restart.

The last line in the xbmc log file when it died was:

11:53:36 T:2809132112 NOTICE: service.xbmc.tts: ERROR: SJHttsdTTSBackend: wav.write - <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

I edited that error output to include self.httphost just to confirm where it was trying to connect, and then rolled back to the old version, changed to espeak, then upgrade again, changed back to ttsd and configured it properly. After that it was happy.

If we trap that exception better, how easy would it be to fall back to the highest priority backend that's available?

I don't know enough about xbmc to know why that's making it barf so spectacularly, but hopefully it's easily fixed.

The only other issue I noticed, and this is very minor, is that when I changed voices, it didn't switch when I went OK. It did take affect when I rebooted, though. I didn't try any other things to see if I could get it to take.

Thanks for getting it into the base so quickly. Hopefully I'm not the only one who'll be able to make use of it.