I am looking to get voice feedback from my Vera - such as “Main Door Opened”, “Welcome home”, etc.
I am aware that Vera natively does not have sound/audio capability and it seems like Sonos is a good solution but is expensive given that bluetooth speakers are dirt cheap.
Is there a device/bridge with bluetooth chip (no speakers) that can connect to Vera using USB or over the Ethernet/WiFi network, receive commands (may be just string of text) from Vera and then transmit them to a bluetooth speaker? It would be nice if this device/bridge has text to speech so audio files don’t need to be pre-recorded. May be using raspberry pi of some sort?
Does a device like this exists that can work with Vera?
using a cheap/old android tablet as the touch screen console, as well as giving voice feedback and receiving voice command
having imperihome install. the tablet is always on, having imperihome on top all the time. imperihome has the features to give voice feedback (if you are on same wifi network, imperihome give better voice respond, if over internet, veraalert works ok but sometime delay happens.)
I have a Sony SX2 bluetooth speaker connected to the android tablet and place in the middle of my apartment, because it has a good microphone coverage, and I can give command within 15 meters without problem. installed openmic+ together with google now. Now I can control and receive notification just using my mouth.
I was looking into something similar myself last week. I had an old Simon XT ADT-Monitored Alarm that told me when doors were opened, what the mode was, etc, and I wanted to get something like that for my Vera setup.
I was hoping to find some sort of Z-wave device that had some way to load sound files via usb with the ability to signal which to play based on what was going on.
I’m likely going to go with a Raspberry-Pi setup and a small speaker, and use luup wget calls to the RPI’s webserver to signal sound files to be piped to the speaker device. I’m thinking of also plugging an old USB webcam into the RPi to bring that back into service, so I get atleast a couple things out of the pi. There is a daughterboard for the Pi to turn it into a Zwave controller, but it doesn’t look to want to play nice as a Z-wave device, so I’m going the wifi route.
There is a cheaper device available - Gramofon (https://gramofon.com/) which you can connected to all kinds of speakers using mini jack connection. They only problem is that device was released just few weeks ago and API is not available yet but it will provided soon. As soon as it will be available I will create plugin for Vera to allow sending commands to it the same as on Sonos speaker.
I have been playing around with Rocki http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00K6KYC2Q?psc=1 and using lolodomo’s DLNA media controller plugin to make it play MP3 files on a connected speaker via wifi ( I store the mp3s on the usb stick connected to my vera). It is similar to gramafon I believe.
With allPlay implemented I was wondering if you had a look at your Gramofon.
It would be great if someone is capable of building a plugin for it.
Unfortunatly my skills with lua aren’t good enough to build a complete plugin.
[quote=“woodchild, post:2, topic:185235”]Below is my simple configuration.
using a cheap/old android tablet as the touch screen console, as well as giving voice feedback and receiving voice command
having imperihome install. the tablet is always on, having imperihome on top all the time. imperihome has the features to give voice feedback (if you are on same wifi network, imperihome give better voice respond, if over internet, veraalert works ok but sometime delay happens.)
I have a Sony SX2 bluetooth speaker connected to the android tablet and place in the middle of my apartment, because it has a good microphone coverage, and I can give command within 15 meters without problem. installed openmic+ together with google now. Now I can control and receive notification just using my mouth.[/quote]
Good afternoon,
I stumbled upon this message, and found it very interesting, could you elaborate am bit more on your set-up.
I have a Vera Plus with a Android tablet running with Imperihome.
I would like to have Vera operate with voice control and feedback without having to physically touch the tablet.
Great news RTS! I am a happy Vera Alerts subscriber and although I have a bunch of amazon echoes around the house already, this gives me the reason to buy a Google Home! ;D
(Side rant) I still can’t believe amazon hasn’t opened up the TTS API yet.
I have an old Samsung tablet I use for home automation on my hallway.
I have a Bluetooth speaker in my porch and use tasker to do TTS feedback.
Tasker can also choose between the tablets internal speaker and the porch one depending on which command is being used.
[quote=“jeff3lo, post:12, topic:185235”]> I plan on a Google Home profile for Vera Alerts.
Great news RTS! I am a happy Vera Alerts subscriber and although I have a bunch of amazon echoes around the house already, this gives me the reason to buy a Google Home! ;D
(Side rant) I still can’t believe amazon hasn’t opened up the TTS API yet.[/quote]
I would prefer Echo by a mile, but with no API will have to consider Google Home…
[quote=“Chrisfraser05, post:13, topic:185235”]I have an old Samsung tablet I use for home automation on my hallway.
I have a Bluetooth speaker in my porch and use tasker to do TTS feedback.
Tasker can also choose between the tablets internal speaker and the porch one depending on which command is being used.[/quote]
Chris,
This sounds like a great idea.
Will Tasker and Imperihome play nice together.
I have both of the above programs, registered.
Chris, how do you go about getting the feedback TTS to work.
For what it’s worth,
I got an Aeotec ZW056 Doorbell which allows you to load any arbitrary MP3 files on it and play any one of them at will.
I used www.fromtexttospeech.com to create a number of voice announcements and can use LUUP in scenes to play any one of them.
I can’t speak to the reliability though. I mainly did it as an experiment and my wife got annoyed with it, so now it’s just a doorbell.
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