I use LANnouncer on a cheap Android device running 5.0 (you can purchase as little as $20 at Walmart). For bigger sound, you can connect to speakers via Bluetooth. It does everything you request along with a SmartApp called Big Talker.
As announced previously in the LANNouncer Announcement Thread , LANNouncer is a combination Device Handler, SmartApp and Android app bringing text-to-speech to SmartThings through Android devices.
A few months ago I added GCM (Google Messaging) support, allowing IFTTT to interact with LANNouncer directly also.
This month I’ve added:
Custom audio files - select your own sounds
Stop command - because you may only want that sound until it is acknowledged via Aeon Remote (e.g.)
WAN support - because GCM is, it turns out, often slow and unreliable. And you might not want Google knowing everything about you
There are some other goodies and stability fixes also.
Head over to the main discussion page for more. As always, you can get everything from the LANnouncer web page , and the app eith…
Version 1.1.6 release announcement
(updated post 5/25/2016 with 1.1.6 release)
Have you ever wanted a talking house? Now you can! With the Big Talker SmartApp ( http://github.com/rayzurbock/SmartThings-BigTalker )
When SmartThings is paired with a compatible audio device (such as a Sonos, Ubi , LANnouncer or VLC Thing ) and Big Talker SmartApp, your house can say what you want it to say when events occur.
Currently supported events:
Time, Time of Day + Day(s) of Week
Motion, Active/Inactive
Switch, On/Off
Presence, Arrive/Depart
Lock, Lock/Unlock
Contact, Open/Close
Mode, Change (Home, Away, etc)
Thermostat, Cooling/Heating/Fan/Idle(not running)
Acceleration, Active/Inactive
Water, Wet/Dry
Smoke, Detect/Clear/Test
Button, Press
Each supported event supports 3 different gr…
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