I have no idea if that has been done yet, I have done a little bit of a search with no results on this particular subject… But tonight I got my Amazon Echo to say, “The Front Door is Open” when my front door opened! It is customizable as to what I want it to say. It’s freakin Awesome!!! Here is w…

ok. is it possible to upload videos on here? I’ll make one

OK, they have expanded the functionality for Bluetooth streaming, which is good. So you’re right, it will be able to listen even though you’ve paired it as a Bluetooth speaker.

[image] JDRoberts: There still a catch, which is that if you ask echo to play music it will disconnect from the Bluetooth device when it plays the music from the cloud. You would have to reconnect it again in order to be able to do your next voice notification. You are just determined to cru…

Does that mean I get to keep my dream??? hahahaha

[image] JDRoberts: edited to note that the description above is how Echo originally worked. As noted below, Echo Is now able to hear hone automation commands even when paired as a Bluetooth speaker, which is an improvement. However, it’s still not native TTS, because the Bluetooth speaker funct…

[image] bamarayne: You are just determined to crush my soul! ! ! Lol! @JDRoberts is an engineer, they just prefer to tell it like it is :smile:

I really think this is a great integration with ST and Amazon Echo. But the real thanks go to the guys that wrote all of the code and figured everything out in the link posted in the original post. All I did was connect my phone to the Echo closest to me to see if it would work. The fact that we…

Awesome find! I was just about to goto sleep when I saw this and had to try it out. Now Alexa can give me my household temperature report and my doors and locks report herself rather than playing through my tablet. She sounds much better.

[image] ErnieG: Awesome find! I was just about to goto sleep when I saw this and had to try it out. Now Alexa can give me my household temperature report and my doors and locks report herself rather than playing through my tablet. She sounds much better. What do you mean by “reports”???

Amazon Echo DOES Voice Notifications!

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bamarayne (Jason "The Enabler" as deemed so by @Smart) December 31, 2015, 5:57am 10

I ran a test on this. It does not disconnect from the bluetooth. It will stay connected to BT, play music, turn on lights, and sound the notification. I believe they’ve updated the system to a more accurate representation of true TTS. I’m not sure of that exact definition, but hey, it works!

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Amazon Echo DOES Voice Notifications!

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