[NO LONGER SUPPORTED] Ask Alexa

[bamarayne (Jason "The Enabler" as deemed so by @Smart)]

Yeah, the integration between the two apps raises things to a while new level. You can now add voice control to all of your automations, as a second layer of control.

The tts feedback via CoRE is great to.

If you have an old Android device laying around, you can set it up as a speech synthesizer with a cheap speaker plugged into the phone.

Amazon Echo DOES Voice Notifications!

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 what you need to do Follow this link and install all of the stuff it says. DO NOT USE ver 1.1.14 of Big Talker, DO USE ver 1.1.13. TTS works in the older version and not the newer one. After you do all of that stuff, do this Connect your Android device to your Amazon Echo via Bluetooth. Now your Echo will give you voice notifications. What can you do with this?? You don’t have to use Echo, you can just use a bluetooth speaker or you can use the Android Device. But how totally cool is i…