topic Re: Events to Trigger a Voice Announcement in Home Automation

Events to Trigger a Voice Announcement

KennyD1949 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:09:22 GMT

I have two outdoor gate sensors from Yolink. I want to have them execute a broadcast message to my Google Home speakers around the house between say 12AM and 5AM (to detect any suspicious person in my back yard). Another post gave me a work around using Alexa to speak to Google Home telling it to broadcast the gate opening. Well that works but as you will likely admit, its a kluge. Anything coming from google that permits a sensor event to trigger a google routine? Also I want it to be active only during certain hours. Any other ideas? Would have thought Google would have tackled this by now.

Re: Events to Trigger a Voice Announcement

Cathal_S — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:59:57 GMT

Hi KennyD1949,

This could be achieved using something like Home Assistant . I use Home Assistant myself running on a Raspberry Pi for my advanced home automation.

https://www.home-assistant.io/

https://www.raspberrypi.org/

Regards,

Cathal

Re: Events to Trigger a Voice Announcement

KennyD1949 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:03:29 GMT

I looked at all this and it seems like a replacement for the Google Home system given that it doeesnt yet support event triggers that announce an event through broadcast. Not sure at this point I want to invest in another system although its great to know this exists.

Re: Events to Trigger a Voice Announcement

GarrettDS — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:25:44 GMT

Hey there,
Just wanted to hop in here to see if we still needed help on this. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns as I will be locking this in 24 hours.

Have a great day.
Garrett DS

Re: Events to Trigger a Voice Announcement

GarrettDS — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:45:55 GMT

Hey folks,
It looks like we haven't heard back from the OP so I'm going to go ahead and lock the thread. If you have any further questions or concerns, feel free to create a new thread.

Have a great day,
Garrett DS