Located under the manage menu, the identity menu allows configuration of several different parameters that customize the unit to be uniquely yours.
The name prompt allows the operator to customize the unit's name, one of the two components of its host name. Names must be valid ASCII (i.e., able to be typed on a standard, non-international US keyboard without the entry of any numeric codes.) The unit's name can also be adjusted with the name command. By default, this is the unit's serial number.
The color prompt allows the operator to adjust the color of illumination used by the controller and devices connected to the light bus. Four formats are recognized:
The unit's color can also be adjusted with the color command, which additionally features color save and color restore to allow for contextual lighting presets to temporarily override the unit's permanent illumination settings. The menu-based configuration always performs color save.
The authority is a short text string identifying the organization or company to which the unit belongs. It can be cleared by entering the special value NONE. Authority can be adjusted from the command line with the authority command.
The gender menu allows detailed configuration of how the unit expresses itself in actions and speech. The options are as follows:
(With no spaces around the commas.) For example, to recreate the values for the neuter gender, one would enter:
These values are then available for use by personas and Arabesque scripts, as described in Robots 103.
SXD units automatically use feminine physical, inanimate mental, and feminine voice gender settings.
Name
The name prompt allows the operator to customize the unit's name, one of the two components of its host name. Names must be valid ASCII (i.e., able to be typed on a standard, non-international US keyboard without the entry of any numeric codes.) The unit's name can also be adjusted with the name command. By default, this is the unit's serial number.
Color
The color prompt allows the operator to adjust the color of illumination used by the controller and devices connected to the light bus. Four formats are recognized:
- Hard-coded color names: A standard preset color identified by name. See table below.
- Hexadecimal values: Must be prefixed with #, in the byte order RRGGBB, e.g. #ff8000 = orange.
- Floating point values: This is the native format used by the light bus and similar. R, G, and B values separated by spaces, in the range 0.0 to 1.0, e.g. 1 0.5 0 for orange.
- Eight-bit values: Similar to the floating point value system, but in the range 0 to 255, e.g. 255 128 0 for orange.
| name | example | float | byte | hex |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| company | 0.8 0.9 1 | 204 229 255 | #CCE5FF | |
| red | 1 0 0 | 255 0 0 | #FF0000 | |
| yellow | 1 1 0 | 255 255 0 | #FFFF00 | |
| green | 0 1 0 | 0 255 0 | #00FF00 | |
| blue | 0 0 1 | 0 0 255 | #0000FF | |
| magenta | 1 0 1 | 255 0 255 | #FF00FF | |
| white | 1 1 1 | 255 255 255 | #FFFFFF | |
| silver | 0.75 0.75 0.75 | 191 191 191 | #BFBFBF | |
| cyan | 0 1 1 | 0 255 255 | #00FFFF | |
| amber | 1 0.75 0 | 255 191 0 | #FFBF00 | |
| orange | 1 0.5 0 | 255 127 0 | #FF7F00 | |
| cherry | 1 0 0.5 | 255 0 127 | #FF007F | |
| pastel | 1 0.5 0.75 | 255 127 191 | #FF7FBF | |
| daffodil | 1 1 0.5 | 255 255 127 | #FFFF7F | |
| coral | 1 0.35 0.35 | 255 89 89 | #FF5959 | |
| seafoam | 0.5 1 0.75 | 127 255 191 | #7FFFBF | |
| mint | 0.25 1 0.5 | 63 255 127 | #3FFF7F | |
| blackberry | 0.75 0.875 1 | 191 223 255 | #BFDFFF | |
| pink | 1 0.4 0.6 | 255 102 153 | #FF6699 | |
| acid | 0.5 1 0 | 127 255 0 | #7FFF00 | |
| coffee | 0.7 0.6 0.5 | 178 153 127 | #B2997F | |
| purple | 0.65 0.25 1 | 165 63 255 | #A53FFF | |
| violet | 0.4 0 1 | 102 0 255 | #6600FF | |
| indigo | 0.3 0.2 1 | 76 51 255 | #4C33FF | |
| lilac | 0.784 0.635 0.784 | 200 162 200 | #C8A2C8 | |
| prussian | 0 0.192 0.325 | 0 49 83 | #003153 | |
| wine | 0.447 0.184 0.216 | 114 47 55 | #722F37 | |
| pearl | 1.0 0.7 0.8 | 255 178 204 | #FFB2CC |
The unit's color can also be adjusted with the color command, which additionally features color save and color restore to allow for contextual lighting presets to temporarily override the unit's permanent illumination settings. The menu-based configuration always performs color save.
Authority
The authority is a short text string identifying the organization or company to which the unit belongs. It can be cleared by entering the special value NONE. Authority can be adjusted from the command line with the authority command.
Gender
The gender menu allows detailed configuration of how the unit expresses itself in actions and speech. The options are as follows:
- Physical: The pronouns used to describe the unit in actions.
- Mental: The pronouns used to describe the unit when it speaks about itself.
- Voice: The timbre to use in tone markers, i.e. the sounds that accompany speech. (Note that this is separate from the voice used for system messages such as low battery warnings. See the manual chapter on Sound for more detail.) For many controllers and personas, the neuter voice gender is configured to produce beeping sounds instead of vocalizations.
absolute possessive,possessive,subject,object,reflective,name
(With no spaces around the commas.) For example, to recreate the values for the neuter gender, one would enter:
theirs,their,they,them,themself,neuter
These values are then available for use by personas and Arabesque scripts, as described in Robots 103.
SXD units automatically use feminine physical, inanimate mental, and feminine voice gender settings.