So this is practically identical to my Morgan Freeman Sonos Notification smartapp from a couple months ago, but instead of Mr. Freeman’s voice I yearned for the smooth, sultry voice of Alexa to notify me if someone is bashing in my front door or if there is a water leak in the basement.
Credit to Sam Machin for his web app which I recorded the Alexa phrases from via Soundflower & Audacity for Mac. Also thank you to @geko for his work on VLC Thing.
The following phrases are currently supported:
Mail has arrived
Motion detected - Generic
Motion in basement
Motion in garage
Motion in front yard
Motion in back yard
Motion at front door
Motion at back door
Front door opened
Front door unlocked
Back door opened
Back door unlocked
Basement door opened
Basement door unlocked
Garage door opened
Patio door opened
Patio door unlocked
Water detected - Generic
Water detected in kitchen
Water detected in garage
Water detected in basement
Smoke detected - Generic
Smoke detected in kitchen
Smoke detected in garage
Smoke detected in basement
Boyfriend is arriving
Girlfriend is arriving
Husband is arriving
Wife is arriving
Son is arriving
Daughter is arriving
Welcome Home
Good Morning
Good Night
Requirements
Windows/Mac/Linux always-on machine with bluetooth capabilities running VLC (I’m using a RPi B+ with a bluetooth dongle)
VLC Thing (follow the directions provided for your particular OS)
Nice program! I was just thinking how funny it would be to have VLC thing say, “Alexa, Simon says: Front Door Opened” though the PC speakers…then of course Alexa repeats that.
OK - about to try and set this up, I’ve got a MS Surface on the wall running SmartTiles and an Echo across the room. Is this the best solution for me to get ST announcements or should I look elsewhere? Also, what’s the best VLC setup for my MS Surface?
If you have a spare android phone laying around. Install smartthing app on it. Then install voice notify and Notifications Auto Clear from the app store. Pair it with echo and stuff that phone somewhere plug in where the sun dont shine. Notifications Auto Clear is to clear out smartthing notification immediately so you dont have to clear the notification.
This should not be happening… You may want to change the TTS voice to male to test this.
bamarayne
(Jason "The Enabler" as deemed so by @Smart)
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it’s using the Alexa voice because the mp3’s are recorded using that voice. The app isn’t actually performing TTS, it’s replaying pre recorded messages.
Hi, this is pretty cool. I am trying to get my Amazon Echo pairing with my Raspberry Pi 3 which has built in Bluetooth but I am not having any luck. If anyone has done that, I would appreciate some direction.
What Bluetooth USB device was used to get audio working like in the video?
I was trying this out and it looks like the Mp3s that were recorded are no longer available. I wasn’t quite sure how they were recorded in the first place. I really like the idea of being able to use Alexa’s voice. Can you please shed some more light on how that was done?
Not some BT hack.