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Events to Trigger a Voice Announcement

KennyD1949
Community Member

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.

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Cathal_S
Gold Product Expert
Gold Product Expert

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

Regards,
Cathal

KennyD1949
Community Member

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.

GarrettDS
Community Specialist
Community Specialist


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

GarrettDS
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

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