Would be nice to have direct communication between Vera and alexa about notifications. All current TTS functions are a bit dodgy and pass through several apps/plugins.
Any chance we see this soon?
Is nobody interested in Alexa anouncing that someone is at the front door? or that your wife is entering the geofence?
You can do this via a text to speech module for the Sonos App. I think the issue of using Alexa to do the same thing has had some discussion but amazon haven’t opened up the API in a free or simple manner. For Sonos with TTS its fairly simple. I have my system wish me goodnight and give a brief summary of the house condition when I activate the alarm system.
You can do this with the Sonos App even when you dont have a Sonos but an Alexa?
Negative. The Sonos app only works with Sonos speakers. I use this rather than Alexa as I have Sonos speaker around the house and only one Echo. You can use the DLNA plugin and for example Raspberry PI’s with attached speakers to achieve the same at a lower cost than Sonos. Although not cheap, the Sonos units sound great and have a solid, easy to use, environment. I have them hooked up to Vera for TTS and now hooked up to Alexa as well so I can voice control them.
I don’t believe Alexa has an API allowing 3rd party devices to play to the internal speaker.
I use Sonos here, too, for doorbell notifications. I wired an ecolink sensor to my doorbell and paired it with Vera. A scene watches for a state change in the sensor and uses the Sonos plugin with TTS to broadcast a notification across the entire house.
Similarly, I also wrote some PHP code to parse caller id on phone calls and pipe them through Vera/Sonos for announcements on incoming calls.
I would like to see this too! It would be handy for my ring doorbell (connected through wink) so I wouldn’t have to use their chime.
[quote=“TinCup, post:6, topic:197537”]I use Sonos here, too, for doorbell notifications. I wired an ecolink sensor to my doorbell and paired it with Vera. A scene watches for a state change in the sensor and uses the Sonos plugin with TTS to broadcast a notification across the entire house.
Similarly, I also wrote some PHP code to parse caller id on phone calls and pipe them through Vera/Sonos for announcements on incoming calls.[/quote]
TinCup, can you elaborate a bit on the PHP script you are using? I am trying to figure a way to do the same thing, but for incoming cell calls. may not be possible, but wanted to see how you are trapping the incoming call.
I use Asterisk for my pbx … do you use something similar?