Raspberry Pi Speech Synthesis

[braclark (B Clark)]

I just finished my project. Well, I’m not completely finished. I’ll probably never be finished, but I finished it enough to share it.

RaspyThing

Ok, first thread, first ST hub, first device type, first time git user, and a few other things, so bear with me. After I first installed my system, I wanted something to announce that doors have been opened, just like my brother-in-laws ADT alarm system does. I saw that a Sonos would do it, but that’s too expensive for just a networked beep. I had an un-purposed Raspberry Pi (V1) that has a built in audio output and I’ve dabbled in web hosting and php, so I figured there must be a way to get an http post to call a script that plays a sound. First, I got the raspberry pi to play audio from the command line, then I got Apache and PHP setup to call the command based on the HTTP post. Then I tried writing the device type code from scratch, but when I couldn’t get the HubAction to wo…