For instance I want HA to announce that the garage door is opening. I already have the door monitored and can control it via HA.
I have HA integrated with Alexa via Nabu Casa but it appears to be a one way thing where she can ask HA to do something via NC but HA can't ask her to do something...like announce "The Garage Door is Opening."
5 Comments
Bluesheep@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
You need Alexa Media Player
This integration will allow you to call a service that does TTS for whatever text you send it. I use it to announce when my wife gets home if I’m in the study at the back of the house. I mean, I say ‘announce’ but the message is “she’s home. Panic and tidy!”
Buelldozer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
This is basically what I'm looking for! Thanks for the link to the Alexa Media player, do you happen to know of a write up for putting the HA / TTS / AMP pieces together?
rockhstrongo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Text-to-speech (TTS), perhaps?
Create an automation that gets triggered by the garage door being open, and use TTS as the action. Play it on a media player entity you have connected to HA.
Buelldozer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I didn't know that TTS existed. I'll have to look that up.
huojtkeg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
They included many voice inprovements in the latest releases. Check out the release notes.