Yeah, I could probably figure out how to do this with a smart phone, but for multiple reasons I don’t want to. I’m back home after major surgery and I need 24 hour nurses for a while and I need a “caregiver alert” that makes a noise that I can trigger from my Apple Watch. There are lots of version…

How about TAustin’s Alexa Multi-Trigger? When you flip the virtual switch in SmartThings, have an Alexa Routine turn up the volume to the desired loudness on the appropriate Alexa device and either play one of the built in alert sounds or make an announcement, or both.

Sorry, I should’ve specified, but I can’t use an Alexa device either. These are 24 hour nurses so they’re sleeping here overnight and I’m not supposed to have anything in the room which might monitor them. So no smart phone and no smart voice assistant.

[image] JDRoberts: I can’t use an Alexa device I have also used a Sonos speaker (no mic or assistant built in) to make announcements and sound alarms. [image] How to execute the Sonos volumeUp command in a routine? SmartApps & Automations I am not curre…

Feeling a little better tonight, and I got an idea. :light_bulb: I think I’ll use one of my own old projects and try to find a plug-in power failure dumb alarm with an adjustable volume setting, then plug it into a smart plug. Turning off the smart plug will make the power failure alarm sound. I …

Glad to see you back, @JDRoberts , and I hope you’re doing better after the surgery. I’m currently using another device that might be worth considering for this use case: the Woox R7051 Smart Indoor Siren, also known as a Tuya TS0219 Zigbee siren. It is not a Matter device, so it does not solve th…

Thank you, I will take a look. It turns out that the power failure alert device I had picked out is not a good match because although it has a chime sound, the chime is only for when the alert has been turned off and it is back to ready status. All of the alerts themselves are obnoxious sirens.

Another candidate is the Tapo H100 or H110. They have like 20 different (alarm) sounds, most of them sound like different door bells, phone ring tones. Volume can be adjusted. Cloud-to-cloud integration. Cheap enough to have one in each room.

[image] Andreas_Roedl: Another candidate is the Tapo H100 or H110. They have like 20 different (alarm) sounds, most of them sound like different door bells, phone ring tones. Volume can be adjusted. Cloud-to-cloud integration. How do you trigger them?

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I can put something smart in there, including a sounder, a smart plug, a light switch… It just can’t have monitoring capability.

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