Custom google home announcements?

[drew571 (Andrew)]

For example, when my mailbox sensor opens it would be cool to have my google home say “you’ve got mail”

any way to do this?

[SteMac]

This may help

[Release] Google Assistant Relay - Google Home Audio Notifications!

UPDATE: Google have fixed their bug and Assistant Relay is back up and running! [image] ASSISTANT RELAY I’ve wanted to get audio notifications on my Google Home for a long time as have a number of people. There are quite a few implementations of this, however they all use the cast feature to cast TTS audio to your speaker. Back in Autumn/Fall last year, Google announced their broadcast feature for Google Home which lets you send audio notifications to all Google Home devices. Until recently, there hasn’t been a way to do this, until one of the Node modules I follow was updated to use the new text input feature of the Google Assistant Service API What is this? This isn’t an extension of your Google Home This isn’t some fancy local API that connects directly to your Google Home This…

[Ryan780]

Assistant Relay will not work for everyone and no one has been able to figure out why. You might be luck and have it work for you. If you can’t, check out Cast-Web-Api. This also works for what you are looking for.