Cobra
(Andy - United Kingdom)
January 5, 2018, 3:41pm
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By default the answer is no.
However; there are ways to get your house to ‘talk’ to you and announce things like open contacts or motion detected.
1st thing you need is one or more compatible speakers.
Then an app to make them talk.
There are expensive Sonos type speakers or you can use cheaper wifi speakers and use something like this to make them talk:
This Smart App and device type allows you to use any DLNA Media Renderer to receive Sonos-like sound and voice notifications from SmartThings.
You must to install the MediaRenderer_Connect to find any Generic Media Renderer (Network Speaker)
The MediaRender Player is the device type needed to control each Media Renderer.
If you dont have a Media Renderer like Smart TV or Network Speaker with DLNA you can test it with Foobar2000 program installing de upnp commponent. The commponent allows you to convert the player in a Media Renderer (Verify your firewall do not block the foobar2000 port )
I have tried some Media Renderers, but is better if you give me a feedback of the models that works for you.
Tip : Please, just install one time the MediaRenderer Connect from the phone, If you have…
Then you could use a smartapp called big talker to speak on certain events:
I’m all for choices and Big Talker is definitely a lot easier to use than Core. I still use RM and I’ve used it for specific use cases but for general all purpose sounds and feedback, I prefer Big Talker. With your proposed changes for version 2, I would use it even more. I think I’ve mentioned this before but one of my wish list features is to have randomized speech and sounds for feedback. This way, we don’t always hear the exact same response each time something occurs.
Additionally, taking a cue from another excellent app, Ask Alexa, to be able to set options for different ‘moods’ such as Snarky for responses would be fun.
or use webcore:
Or if you want something a little simpler;
Hi all
I can no longer support development of this app in SmartThings.
Most of my devices are now migrated to the Hubitat environment and rather than support two different versions I have decided to concentrate on the Hubitat version
I’ll leave the GitHub files and links for a while and you are welcome to download existing versions if you wish
Andy
I’ve had my ST system for more than a year now and have had great success with WAF (Wife Approval Factor) by getting the system to ‘announce’ things like ‘the washer has finished’ and ‘the dryer has finished’ or ‘there is someone at the door’
I have used quite a few community created smartapps along the way to get my system to work how I want it.
(Kudos goes to this excellent community for the help it gives everyone)
I have also created…
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