I created a simple Windows program that contains a media player and a html server. You can place it on your mediacenter computer and call the sounds from your vera from within a scene using Luup code.
The Luup Code would be:
luup.inet.wget(“http://192.168.1.102:8087/Doorbell”)
where “192.168.1.102” would be your computer. You also have several other sounds to call with this program Sound1-Sound9 and Barking
ex: luup.inet.wget(“http://192.168.1.102:8087/Barking”)
or
luup.inet.wget(“http://192.168.1.102:8087/Sound7”)
I have tested it while streaming netflix and it does not interrupt the movie, it just adds the sound. The program returns a webpage with just the word “Doorbell” at this time. I tested it on a windows 7 and windows 8 computer, and it should work on older windows computers as well.
Feel free to download:
http://dataweb.no-ip.com/SoundIt.zip
To install, you have to place all the wav files in your C directory. C:/Doorbell.wav
The soundit program can go anywhere you want. I created a directory called C:/Program Files/SoundIt , and put it there. You might have to allow it access through your firewall, it is a server on port 8087. You would also need to have it start when you computer starts or manually start the program. You can minimalize it once it is started.
The Sound6-9 wav files are Holloween sounds. You can replace the sound files with whatever you want, just use the same names, and they need to be wav files.
The program was slapped together in a couple of hours. Use it as is, or not. If people get it working and like it, I will consider making improvements. For now it is just a fun project I am sharing.