Voice notification on multiple echo dots

1.i personally use a fabriq for my voice notifications. I use it for notifying me of open doors/Windows or washer/dryer finishing. I also have it say “the alarm is about to sound and the police will be notified” when there are 5 seconds left in the entry delay and the have it look"intruder intruder. Your picture has been taken and the police have been notified". Some other speakers allow you to preload audio files. Honestly I think it’s worth it. Can’t tell you how many times I have left a window open.

2.fabrig has become pretty popular recently. It costs usually $50 on amazon and it has multiroom capability. You connect it to smartthings as a dlna device. It’s about the size of a male adults fist.
It’s audio quality is pretty impressive in my opinion as well. For me, when these came out It was a no brainer. Get 4 for the price of one Sonos and have one in every room. Here’s a list of some other options you can look at

  1. If you have installed core and not webcore I would highly recommend you install webcore and give it a try. It’s a lot easier and faster in my opinion. And yes it can do what you are asking. Webcore can pretty much do anything you want it to do. Your implementation would look something like; if front door contact changes to open AND THEN front door motion changes to active THEN turn on light. Pretty much anything you can think of, it can do when it comes to automation.

4.wlecome greetings are easily achieved through some smartapps but i personally use webcore. It says “welcome home” when I disarm the SHM and it says the weather when I activate the motion sensor in the front room when I get up in the morning. Once again webcore will allow you to pretty much set this up however you would like. Playing music has always been a problem for me to get set up correctly. I know a lot of people have gotten it to work and Sonos speakers have a feature allowing you to select a favorite station or song and smartthings can que that up from my understanding.
I hope this was able to help you at all.

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