first cut, pretty ugly

interface/resources/qml/hifi/NameCard.qml

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Item {
     property real displayNameTextPixelSize: 18
     property int usernameTextHeight: 12
     property real audioLevel: 0.0
+    property real avgAudioLevel: 0.0
     property bool isMyCard: false
     property bool selected: false
     property bool isAdmin: false
@@ -335,7 +336,7 @@ Item {
             }
         }
 
-        // Per-Avatar Gain Slider 
+        // Per-Avatar Gain Slider
         Slider {
             id: gainSlider
             // Size
@@ -369,7 +370,7 @@ Item {
                     mouse.accepted = false
                 }
                 onReleased: {
-                    // the above mouse.accepted seems to make this 
+                    // the above mouse.accepted seems to make this
                     // never get called, nonetheless...
                     mouse.accepted = false
                 }

interface/resources/qml/hifi/Pal.qml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //  Pal.qml
 //  qml/hifi
 //
-//  People Action List 
+//  People Action List
 //
 //  Created by Howard Stearns on 12/12/2016
 //  Copyright 2016 High Fidelity, Inc.
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ Rectangle {
     property int myCardHeight: 90
     property int rowHeight: 70
     property int actionButtonWidth: 55
-    property int nameCardWidth: palContainer.width - actionButtonWidth*(iAmAdmin ? 4 : 2) - 4 - hifi.dimensions.scrollbarBackgroundWidth
+    property int nameCardWidth: palContainer.width - actionButtonWidth*(iAmAdmin ? 5 : 3) - 4 - hifi.dimensions.scrollbarBackgroundWidth
-    property var myData: ({displayName: "", userName: "", audioLevel: 0.0, admin: true}) // valid dummy until set
+    property var myData: ({displayName: "", userName: "", audioLevel: 0.0, avgAudioLevel: 0.0, admin: true}) // valid dummy until set
     property var ignored: ({}); // Keep a local list of ignored avatars & their data. Necessary because HashMap is slow to respond after ignoring.
     property var userModelData: [] // This simple list is essentially a mirror of the userModel listModel without all the extra complexities.
     property bool iAmAdmin: false
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ Rectangle {
             displayName: myData.displayName
             userName: myData.userName
             audioLevel: myData.audioLevel
+            avgAudioLevel: myData.avgAudioLevel
             isMyCard: true
             // Size
             width: nameCardWidth
@@ -184,6 +185,13 @@ Rectangle {
             movable: false
             resizable: false
         }
+        TableViewColumn {
+            role: "avgAudioLevel"
+            title: "VOL"
+            width: actionButtonWidth
+            movable: false
+            resizable: false
+        }
         TableViewColumn {
             visible: iAmAdmin
             role: "mute"
@@ -218,6 +226,7 @@ Rectangle {
             id: itemCell
             property bool isCheckBox: styleData.role === "personalMute" || styleData.role === "ignore"
             property bool isButton: styleData.role === "mute" || styleData.role === "kick"
+            property bool isText: styleData.role == "avgAudioLevel"
             // This NameCard refers to the cell that contains an avatar's
             // DisplayName and UserName
             NameCard {
@@ -226,7 +235,8 @@ Rectangle {
                 displayName: styleData.value
                 userName: model ? model.userName : ""
                 audioLevel: model ? model.audioLevel : 0.0
-                visible: !isCheckBox && !isButton
+                avgAudioLevel: model ? model.avgAudioLevel : 0.0
+                visible: !isCheckBox && !isButton && !isText
                 uuid: model ? model.sessionId : ""
                 selected: styleData.selected
                 isAdmin: model && model.admin
@@ -236,7 +246,16 @@ Rectangle {
                 // Anchors
                 anchors.left: parent.left
             }
-            
+            Text {
+                id: avgAudioVolume
+                text: model ? model.avgAudioLevel : 0.0
+                visible: isText
+                horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
+                verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
+                width: parent.width
+                height: parent.height
+            }
+
             // This CheckBox belongs in the columns that contain the stateful action buttons ("Mute" & "Ignore" for now)
             // KNOWN BUG with the Checkboxes: When clicking in the center of the sorting header, the checkbox
             // will appear in the "hovered" state. Hovering over the checkbox will fix it.
@@ -272,7 +291,7 @@ Rectangle {
                     checked = Qt.binding(function() { return (model[styleData.role])})
                 }
             }
-            
+
             // This Button belongs in the columns that contain the stateless action buttons ("Silence" & "Ban" for now)
             HifiControls.Button {
                 id: actionButton
@@ -542,23 +561,28 @@ Rectangle {
                 }
             }
             break;
-        case 'updateAudioLevel': 
+        case 'updateAudioLevel':
             for (var userId in message.params) {
-                var audioLevel = message.params[userId];
+                var audioLevel = message.params[userId][0];
+                var avgAudioLevel = message.params[userId][1];
                 // If the userId is 0, we're updating "myData".
                 if (userId == 0) {
                     myData.audioLevel = audioLevel;
                     myCard.audioLevel = audioLevel; // Defensive programming
+                    myData.avgAudioLevel = avgAudioLevel;
+                    myCard.avgAudioLevel = avgAudioLevel;
                 } else {
                     var userIndex = findSessionIndex(userId);
                     if (userIndex != -1) {
                         userModel.setProperty(userIndex, "audioLevel", audioLevel);
                         userModelData[userIndex].audioLevel = audioLevel; // Defensive programming
+                        userModel.setProperty(userIndex, "avgAudioLevel", avgAudioLevel);
+                        userModelData[userIndex].avgAudioLevel = avgAudioLevel;
                     }
                 }
             }
             break;
-        case 'clearLocalQMLData': 
+        case 'clearLocalQMLData':
             ignored = {};
             gainSliderValueDB = {};
             break;

scripts/system/pal.js

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 (function() { // BEGIN LOCAL_SCOPE
 
-// hardcoding these as it appears we cannot traverse the originalTextures in overlays???  Maybe I've missed 
+// hardcoding these as it appears we cannot traverse the originalTextures in overlays???  Maybe I've missed
 // something, will revisit as this is sorta horrible.
 const UNSELECTED_TEXTURES = {"idle-D": Script.resolvePath("./assets/models/Avatar-Overlay-v1.fbx/Avatar-Overlay-v1.fbm/avatar-overlay-idle.png"),
                              "idle-E": Script.resolvePath("./assets/models/Avatar-Overlay-v1.fbx/Avatar-Overlay-v1.fbm/avatar-overlay-idle.png")
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ ExtendedOverlay.prototype.hover = function (hovering) {
         } else {
             lastHoveringId = 0;
         }
-    } 
+    }
     this.editOverlay({color: color(this.selected, hovering, this.audioLevel)});
     if (this.model) {
         this.model.editOverlay({textures: textures(this.selected, hovering)});
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ ExtendedOverlay.prototype.select = function (selected) {
     if (this.selected === selected) {
         return;
     }
-    
+
     UserActivityLogger.palAction(selected ? "avatar_selected" : "avatar_deselected", this.key);
 
     this.editOverlay({color: color(selected, this.hovering, this.audioLevel)});
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ function sendToQml(message) {
 //
 function addAvatarNode(id) {
     var selected = ExtendedOverlay.isSelected(id);
-    return new ExtendedOverlay(id, "sphere", { 
+    return new ExtendedOverlay(id, "sphere", {
         drawInFront: true,
         solid: true,
         alpha: 0.8,
@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ function populateUserList(selectData) {
             userName: '',
             sessionId: id || '',
             audioLevel: 0.0,
+            avgAudioLevel: 0.0,
             admin: false,
             personalMute: !!id && Users.getPersonalMuteStatus(id), // expects proper boolean, not null
             ignore: !!id && Users.getIgnoreStatus(id) // ditto
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@ function updateOverlays() {
         var target = avatar.position;
         var distance = Vec3.distance(target, eye);
         var offset = 0.2;
-        
+
         // base offset on 1/2 distance from hips to head if we can
         var headIndex = avatar.getJointIndex("Head");
         if (headIndex > 0) {
@@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ function updateOverlays() {
 
         // get diff between target and eye (a vector pointing to the eye from avatar position)
         var diff = Vec3.subtract(target, eye);
-        
+
         // move a bit in front, towards the camera
         target = Vec3.subtract(target, Vec3.multiply(Vec3.normalize(diff), offset));
 
@@ -361,12 +362,12 @@ function updateOverlays() {
         overlay.editOverlay({
             color: color(ExtendedOverlay.isSelected(id), overlay.hovering, overlay.audioLevel),
             position: target,
-            dimensions: 0.032 * distance 
+            dimensions: 0.032 * distance
         });
         if (overlay.model) {
             overlay.model.ping = pingPong;
             overlay.model.editOverlay({
-                position: target, 
+                position: target,
                 scale: 0.2 * distance, // constant apparent size
                 rotation: Camera.orientation
             });
@@ -433,7 +434,7 @@ function handleMouseMoveEvent(event) { // find out which overlay (if any) is ove
     handleMouseMove(pickRay);
 }
 function handleTriggerPressed(hand, value) {
-    // The idea is if you press one trigger, it is the one 
+    // The idea is if you press one trigger, it is the one
     // we will consider the mouse.  Even if the other is pressed,
     // we ignore it until this one is no longer pressed.
     isPressed = value > TRIGGER_PRESS_THRESHOLD;
@@ -441,10 +442,10 @@ function handleTriggerPressed(hand, value) {
         currentHandPressed = isPressed ? hand : 0;
         return;
     }
-    if (currentHandPressed == hand) { 
+    if (currentHandPressed == hand) {
         currentHandPressed = isPressed ? hand : 0;
         return;
-    } 
+    }
     // otherwise, the other hand is still triggered
     // so do nothing.
 }
@@ -574,41 +575,48 @@ function receiveMessage(channel, messageString, senderID) {
 Messages.subscribe(CHANNEL);
 Messages.messageReceived.connect(receiveMessage);
 
-
 var AVERAGING_RATIO = 0.05;
+var LONG_AVERAGING_RATIO = 0.75;
 var LOUDNESS_FLOOR = 11.0;
 var LOUDNESS_SCALE = 2.8 / 5.0;
 var LOG2 = Math.log(2.0);
 var myData = {}; // we're not includied in ExtendedOverlay.get.
 
+function scaleAudio(val) {
+    var audioLevel = 0.0;
+    if (val <= LOUDNESS_FLOOR) {
+        audioLevel = val / LOUDNESS_FLOOR * LOUDNESS_SCALE;
+    } else {
+        audioLevel = (val -(LOUDNESS_FLOOR -1 )) * LOUDNESS_SCALE;
+    }
+    if (audioLevel > 1.0) {
+        audioLevel = 1;
+    }
+    return audioLevel;
+}
 function getAudioLevel(id) {
     // the VU meter should work similarly to the one in AvatarInputs: log scale, exponentially averaged
     // But of course it gets the data at a different rate, so we tweak the averaging ratio and frequency
     // of updating (the latter for efficiency too).
     var avatar = AvatarList.getAvatar(id);
     var audioLevel = 0.0;
+    var avgAudioLevel = 0.0;
     var data = id ? ExtendedOverlay.get(id) : myData;
-    if (!data) {
+    if (data) {
-        return audioLevel;
-    }
 
-    // we will do exponential moving average by taking some the last loudness and averaging
+        // we will do exponential moving average by taking some the last loudness and averaging
-    data.accumulatedLevel = AVERAGING_RATIO * (data.accumulatedLevel || 0) + (1 - AVERAGING_RATIO) * (avatar.audioLoudness);
+        data.accumulatedLevel = AVERAGING_RATIO * (data.accumulatedLevel || 0) + (1 - AVERAGING_RATIO) * (avatar.audioLoudness);
+        data.longAccumulatedLevel = LONG_AVERAGING_RATIO * (data.longAccumulatedLevel || 0) + (1 - LONG_AVERAGING_RATIO) * (avatar.audioLoudness);
 
-    // add 1 to insure we don't go log() and hit -infinity.  Math.log is
+        // add 1 to insure we don't go log() and hit -infinity.  Math.log is
-    // natural log, so to get log base 2, just divide by ln(2).
+        // natural log, so to get log base 2, just divide by ln(2).
-    var logLevel = Math.log(data.accumulatedLevel + 1) / LOG2;
+        audioLevel = scaleAudio(Math.log(data.accumulatedLevel + 1) / LOG2);
+        avgAudioLevel = scaleAudio(Math.log(data.longAccumulatedLevel + 1) / LOG2);
 
-    if (logLevel <= LOUDNESS_FLOOR) {
+        data.audioLevel = audioLevel;
-        audioLevel = logLevel / LOUDNESS_FLOOR * LOUDNESS_SCALE;
+        data.averageAudioLevel = avgAudioLevel;
-    } else {
-        audioLevel = (logLevel - (LOUDNESS_FLOOR - 1.0)) * LOUDNESS_SCALE;
     }
-    if (audioLevel > 1.0) {
+    return [audioLevel, avgAudioLevel];
-        audioLevel = 1;
-    }
-    data.audioLevel = audioLevel;
-    return audioLevel;
 }
 
 function createAudioInterval(interval) {