ZWave Speaker for Announcing Messages

[prayerfuldrop (AaronW)]

Hello all,

Currently we have a Vivint legacy system that announces when the alarm is armed/disarmed, doors open, etc. I have a significant investment in Echo/Dots around the home for Voice integration into ST. Here is my (2) question:

1.) Is there a way to leverage Alexa/Echo using either Echossistant or AskAlexa to do these same announcements throughout the home or AT LEAST on the kitchen Echo?

2.) If no Alexa way what is a good sounding ZWave Speaker I could power/mount in the kitchen and then code announcements to this device depending on automation? I know Sonos is an option but sure is an expensive one.

Thoughts?

[Jimxenus]

1. For now, Amazon does not allow Echo to do unprompted notifications. It may come as a future update.

2. There are several approaches for announcing messages.
   A. Similar to the Sonos, the Fabriq speaker has DNLA capability to act as TTS for Smartthings

https://smile.amazon.com/FABRIQ-Portable-Bluetooth-Speaker-Amazon/dp/B01LYZAWRO/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

B. Use an Android device (5.1 OS) with LANnouncer software and BigTalker

[Release] V2 of LANNouncer

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…

C. Use a dedicated doorbell that can play MP3 sounds

Aeon labs z-wave doorbell

KFinally I got my z-wave doorbell really nice!!! [image] [image] The only issue smartthings recognizes as siren not a for bell hoping someone will be able to create smart app to integrate the new doorbell http://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/aeotec-by-aeon-labs-zw056-z-wave-plus-doorbell-gen-5

There are more options but that should get you started.

[prayerfuldrop (AaronW)]

@Jimxenus,

Thank you for this great start! Do you know if there is anything similar to the Aeon Labs Doorbell for the Ring Doorbell? If I am going to invest in a doorbell might as well go for it all with security in mind.

[Jimxenus]

Sorry but I’m not familiar about this one.

[Benji]

Just to clarify, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to find a Z-Wave speaker as such that you can send audio over Z-Wave to it, there’s not really enough bandwidth for that.