I am currently experimenting with the PowerShell widgets and trying to figure out what you can do and what you cannot do. My funny idea was to create a Jukebox dashboard where you can select a song and PowerShell will play it using the “beep sounds”. Yes I know SCOM is a monitoring tool but the thing I wanted to find out if we can add some sort of sound / beeps / voice to the PowerShell Grid Widgets / dashboard.
The setup is simple, I used 3 Image Widgets and two PowerShell Grid Widgets. It looks like this…
If you want to see it in action I recorded a small video. I had to re-record the sound from my local system, because the RDP connection beeps were just awful…
There are two things I use for the sounds, for the voice itself “Please select…” I use the System.speech assembly and for the sound I use the [console]::beep() function. For the music I found the samples here so all the credits to the authors.
You can download the scripts in the TechNet Script Center here.
Haha, very nice 🙂
HEHE! Saw this in the SCU. Pretty cool. 😉
Yes, well almost, you saw the Intergalactic Soundboard 😉