Am I missing Something (create sound alert on tablet)?

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Well I searched the forum, but came up empty handed. I run the mobile app on a Nexus 7 tablet, mounted to the wall in my entry foyer.

Recently I added a sensor to my front gate. It works great and consistently shows that the gate is either open or closed. I see that the mobile app (and other “smart apps”) can send a text, SMS message, and turn on a light among other things. What I want to do, and what I expected to find, was to have the app generate a sound on the tablet. Seems like it would be such a simple “thing” to do?

Maybe I just missed it? Any sage advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
SHawn

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Using this app and Big Talker can make your Nexus 7 verbally announce or chime different events around your home including your gate opening and closing.

You’ll need this app to tell Smartthings when to make the announcements.

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You can also do this with SharpTools + Tasker. In SharpTools, you would long press on a device to subscribe to events – for example, if you wanted to get a chime each time the gate opens, you would subscribe to the gate contact attribute.

Then within Tasker, you would setup a profile using SharpTools’ Thing State event plugin. In the profile, you could use the Media > Play Ringtone (or Music Play) action to play a sound.

PS. SharpTools also has a set of widgets and a number of other Tasker plugins which are helpful for various projects:

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Hey thanks so much Jimxenus and joshua_lyon! I am so glad to see I actually did “miss” something. Very much appreciated; I am now off to go check them out.

Shawn

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