Chat with robot through phone

Requirements

• An Android phone with version 5.0 (Lollipop) or above
• Integrated Bluetooth chip in your phone
• Lego Mindstorms EV3 Brick
• Ozeki 10 installed on your phone: Installing Ozeki 10 on your Android device
• EV3 Brick paired with your phone using Bluetooth: Bluetooth pairing on Android phones
• EV3 Brick connected to your phone: Connect the Lego robot to phone

You can get the connection info after you start the service on your phone. You can click on the link then sign in with the given username and password. You can get more information about this process in Connect the Lego robot to phone lecture at Task #1. After you have succesfully signed in, choose the 'Control Panel' icon to access the different types of Lego connections.

Figure 1 - Choosing Control Panel

On this list you can see your EV3 robot's different connections, you need to filter the connections, in order to see only the Lego connections, you can read more about that in Connect the Lego robot to phone lecture at Task #5. After you have done that, choose the LED connection from the list, as shown at Figure 2, there you will be able to access LED options.

Figure 2 - Selecting LED_1 to control LED

In the LED details, if you scroll down a bit, there is a tab called chat, there you will be able to chat with your robot, send commands to it. You can write your message to the 'Type your message here' field then you need to click on the blue 'Send' button to send it, the process can be seen at Figure 3. You can query the full command set with a 'help' command, this will list all the available commands, also describing what they are used for. For example if you send an 'orange' command your robot's LED will change to orange, or you can change it to other colors too.

Figure 3 - Sending commands

The Brick Status Light command set

With the listed text commands you can control the LEGO LED effectively from Ozeki 10. The first 'Description' table contain all the commands to control the LED, the 'Command table' control all the basic commands that is gonna help you using this chat funcionality. These messages can be sent from e-mail, SMS or Snap codes, so you can choose from different options.

Commands Table - These commands can controll the LED