There is also the option of using an Android device (OS 5.1 or better) and installing an app on it called LANnouncer. This will give you other options such as chime, siren, LED flashing, MP3 sound, and TTS.
As announced previously in the LANNouncer Announcement Thread , LANNouncer is a combination Device Handler, SmartApp and Android app bringing text-to-speech to SmartThings through Android devices.
A few months ago I added GCM (Google Messaging) support, allowing IFTTT to interact with LANNouncer directly also.
This month I’ve added:
Custom audio files - select your own sounds
Stop command - because you may only want that sound until it is acknowledged via Aeon Remote (e.g.)
WAN support - because GCM is, it turns out, often slow and unreliable. And you might not want Google knowing everything about you
There are some other goodies and stability fixes also.
Head over to the main discussion page for more. As always, you can get everything from the LANnouncer web page , and the app eith…
It’s a little daunting to try to figure out all the steps to install it so I’ve summarized it here. It does require some understanding of how to add custom device handlers, smart apps, etc.
Let me try to help. This is summarized from http://www.keybounce.com/lannouncer/
Get and install LANnouncer from the Play store
or directly from this link: http://www.keybounce.com/bin/LANnouncer.apk
Once you have it running on your Android, look for the IP address (something like 192.168.1.xx) and the port # which is usually 1035
Select All and Copy this Device Handler
You will use this code to create a new speech device for SmartThings
Log into your IDE https://account.smartthings.com
Once logged in, click on a link My Device Handlers and then click at the right a green button “Create New Device Handler”
Click on a link that says “From Code” and paste what you copied earlier into the field below.
At the bottom, click on “Create”, then at the top right button, clic…
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