A TRUE Smart Home...HAS JARVIS!

[bamarayne (Jason "The Enabler" as deemed so by @Smart)]

Eric… Great project. One of my biggest interest with HA is communication throughout the house. I’ve put speakers in my rooms and I’ve got 9 Alexa enabled devices in the house.

Take a look at this app, you might find itty interesting to add into your project.

[Deprecated] EchoSistant Version 1.2.0

Officially announcing version 1.2.0 of EchoSistant The Ultimate Voice and Text Messaging Assistant Using Your Alexa Enabled Devices When your speakers Echo your words using Alexa as a personal Assistant, we call it EchoSistant! Introducing the EchoSistant, a light app that turns Alexa into a powerful personal assistant that can deliver your spoken messages via connected speakers or SMS. Using EchoSistant via your Alexa enabled devices you can utilize your ST connected speaker systems (Sonos; Wi-Fi, etc.) and Speech Synthesis devices (LanDroid, MediaRenderer, etc.) to send free form Text to Speech as well as Text Messages. Alexa via SmartThings can now be used as a two-way voice communication device! PLEASE NOTE: There are many powerful smartapps available to the community, namely CoRE …