Speech notifications with Google Home?

[James_Watts]

Hello, thanks to everyone for the great support with CoRE.

I have a dryer notification based on wattage:

Is it possible to also send a voice notification through the Google Home speaker?

[destructure00 (Chris)]

If you are up for running a node.js app on an internal web server…

DTH for Chromecast / Google Home

TL;DR: I’ve created a DTH that allows you to talk to your Chromecasts / Google Homes. It’s ready for testing if you’re familiar with using the SmartThings IDE / Github integration and can deal with the (inevitable) bugs that will show up. There’s only very basic documentation (this post) at this point. Components The Chromecast integration consists of three components: Chromecast Manager, the service manager smartapp Chromecast DTH an intermediary app that runs in the cloud, receiving commands from the DTH and passing them on to your Chromecast / Google home. The cloud intermediary While the rest of the code here is relatively standard, using a cloud intermediary adds complexity. In particular, it comes with two issues: You need create an app running in the cloud. That cloud ap…