Newbie - Alert if left doors open not necessarily based on time or duration, but other trigger

[Jimxenus]

@Waynosan

When home:
IF door sensor is opened, have Alexa state “door X opened”
IF transition to night mode then check if doors opened, send notification if yes

Unfortunately, Alexa can’t be used directly for notifications. You can use it as a BT speaker but that will require you to connect to an Android device. More details can be found in this thread. Look at post #3 for specific steps to install a program called LANnouncer for text to speech and other audio notifications with SmartThings.

BigTalker 2.x send to a BT speaker or Alexa Dot

Hi, I just heard of BigTalker and was interested in adding a front door “ding dong” using BigTalker to say “Front door now open” and vice versa for closed. However, i noticed that if I am playing music either using the Spotify app via spotify connect to Sonos OR playing music through Sonos the resuming music feature in BigTalker doesn’t work to continue playing. This is of course referring to when the output of BigTalker is also going to come out of the speakers that I am playing music from. Now i believe that there is a prexisiting limitation to resuming music if i am using spotify connect with Sonos as i can see the complicatedness that will arise when BigTalker tries to resume after it has broken the connection with Spotify. However, i was suprised that it didn’t work when i was playi…