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I must be missing something obvious here because using the web browser results in a OK also like the test NR did. Yet there is no sound coming out of the connected speaker attached to the RPi?

If you have a Insteon motion sensor you can base a program on the dusk to dawn node being activated. If you have the real fancy 5-1 sensor you could use the light sensor built into that unit too for the same objective.

Thanatar, Can you provide me the link which calls out the path you cited in your first post. I want to make sure there isn't a difference in the file path in my openelec vs yours.

Yes, I confirmed the phrase is exactly the same as the test file. I'm going to change it to one long word and see what happens. This shouldn't be that complicated but since I never know what the controller is going to cry about for all I know its a fail on the network resource side. I just don't know . . .

OK, what I have done thus far so please check off anything I may have missed. - RPi: I enabled both analog and HDMI in the program and confirmed sound is indeed heard on the HDTV and USB Speaker. - Confirmed the IP address of the RPi which is 192.168.1.137 - The test NR looks like this simply copy and pasted from your example and for the sake of doing it I added an underscore to the test file called Entry_MS_Low_Battery.wav just in case the system wasn't liking the space between the words. - When I press TEST for the NR I receive the expected 200 which I have appended in this reply. - I've initiated the NR in the dummy program just in case there was a difference in behavior still no joy. /jsonrpc?request={%22jsonrpc%22:%222.0%22,%22id%22:%221%22,%22method%22:%22Player.Open%22,%22params%22:{%22item%22:{%22file%22:%22storage/music/Entry_MS_Low_Battery.wav%22}}}

I know lots of people are like me who simply want to see and hear the end results of something. Because some times written text simply doesn't relay the same experience or meaning. Below is just a quick video how I defined some of 250 plus voice announcements in hopes of using them in my HA. I had been asked a few times in this thread and via PM to show case how I made *Julie US* stop, pause, and emphasize my TTS announcements. There are a few you will notice how this worked out so perfectly: Currently I am working on the NR's which doesn't seem to be working besides the fact I'm constantly fighting with the blasted ISY Series Controller! The stupid thing constantly says java blah blah, takes what seems like days to just load the program tab. Once the bloody thing finally loads I am presented with yet a dozen error messages of blah blah! I always feel I'm walking on egg shells of late with this controller and it seems to be maxed out in resources etc. Anyways enjoy the video and hope it inspires many more to do the very same. I am going to copy and paste the NR and see if anyone see's something obvious.

Hello Ron, Just a software upgrade nothing more. [emoji4]

I was afraid of that - OK. Alright I'll have to wait for the family to wake up before I start blasting the house over the PA to see if it's just a output issue vs file name or both. Probably both LOL! [emoji12] I'll circle back once I make a new voice prompt for *All you lazy heads get up* using the funniest voice I can find! [emoji38]

Didn't have much time to test last night as it was really late so didn't want to blast the house with voices. But the NR when activated via a dummy program didn't activate the USB speaker. [emoji848]☹️ I'm going to have to see what the sound output is and source is set for on the RPi. As an aside I did hear some hiss & noise using two different speakers so it's obvious that analog output isn't very high quality vs the other HDMI, I/O pins. [emoji36] In the NR string if you have a file called: walk the dog how should that be represented in the string? With spaces, without, under score? I used all three in the text string and nothing could be heard from the RPi speaker. ========================= The highest calling in life is to serve ones country faithfully - Teach others what can be. Do what is right and not what is popular.

To expand a little bit of what Stu offered here once you upgrade your ISY Series Controller to a pro unit. You will see a little green battery icon which you will simply enable. This will cause the green battery icon to turn grey which means during the PLM Restore the system will not attempt to write to those battery operated devices. Once the restore process has completed all you need to do is select one battery operated device from the device tree and right mouse click and select *Write Updates*. Doing so will issue the write process which were pending in the system in the beginning. You will continue selecting each battery device which shows a 1011 icon next to them until that marker goes away. NOTE: Once you receive your new 2413S PLM would you please indicate what is written on the white stickers for the production date and hardware revision. Also select the help tab and let us know what the ISY notes as the firmware for the PLM. Lastly, please ensure you place a sticker on the top of the unit of the install date of the PLM so you have a point of reference to when it was physically installed and put into production. Merry X-MAS . . .

Hello Mmoore99, Surprisingly, the TTS web application simply accepts common spelling punctuation's and spaces to invoke a stop, pause, and emphasis. I had recalled this feature in a similar TTS service I trialed more than eight years ago which unfortunately was abandoned. If you enter say: Warning!!! Julie will actually emphasize that phrase. If you place a comma like: Hello, how are you <- This will create a short pause. I also noticed if you simply added space between the words this too would cause a pause in her vocal speech. So if you wrote out the following: Hello how are you <-- The space between the hello and how would cause her to pause then speak. A simple period would also cause her to make a line break which in laymens terms is simply a pause. But using a combination of each this makes the voice and tempo of her speech come across more natural. As some phrases give off an odd synthesized sound at least to me. In a few cases I used the reverb feature because no matter what I did the word I selected didn't sound human enough to me so adding the reverb oddly enough made her sound more human in tone and pitch. Which I used also but didn't find any of those options to have much benefit besides sounding like chip monks, or some cheap sci-fi sound effect.

Thanatar, I have almost completed all of the predefined voice messages. Network Resource: When you select add another pop up window appears to select *Header* details. Is anything being select and if so what option is chosen here? As I noticed your last field indicates *Content Length = 0*

I will check for that setting for sure - but when I call the NR the system is simply going to play only that WAV file, correct?

I just transferred the first 20 or so files and totally forgot the RPi was attached to my HDTV. I was running all over the house trying to find that silly USB speaker. When I selected the music folder I almost got blasted on to the master bedroom floor as I had the volume cranked up watching *Saving Private Ryan* last night. Anyways the entire folder started playing consecutively and just WOW! Crystal clear audio being pushed out via the HDMI ports and through the sound system. No hiss, no hum, no buzz, nothing - just a sweet voice which I can tell you would date anytime! Once I finish most of the voice announcements I will push forward with making the NR's to connect to the RPi. Once that is done I will sit down and craft some programs and see how it operates in a real world condition. I know I've said this a few times but thank you so very much Thanatar! This has been one of the easiest voice deployments I have seen yet and will really be helping me complete my project. I plan to document all the steps and the resources that were needed to complete this task once I am done. Full credit will be called out in Project Titan to you and many others. Thank You!

Thanatar, I must have fell off the couch and hit my head because (Samba) was just enabled and that was so obvious . . . Thank You!

I'm just in the beginning stages of this awesome project and haven't even loaded anything to the RPi. Right now I am just focused on making all of the voice announcements. Once that is done I will import them to the RPi and hook up some cheap powered computer speakers and give it a listen. What program are people using to access the RPi with a GUI so I can see the directory and dump the files to the Micro SD card?

I have to tell you this website that does the TTS offers some of the most useful (basic) and expected features. Most of the websites I have seen and played with there was no method to make the robot stop, pause, or emphasize a phrase / sentence. This one however allows this and when you record the voice it offers that *Almost* real human voice. Once again much thanks to all of you who have taken the time to share your invaluable projects, insight, and knowledge. Each and every one of you will be 2016 super hero's in my books because this is really starting to round out my HA. Right now I am making all of the low battery, leak sensor voice alerts. Next are some security related TTS I have always wanted to have and deploy in my home. Julie (US) is my preferred girl and thus far meets the balance of soft, distinct, and focused voice. I don't know how many weather and energy voice alerts I will make but thus far I have come up with at least 89 conditions I want to be vocalized! Guess I know what this week end has in store for yours truly after hitting the gym!

I just don't know why this is so hard I've selected every option in the program and yet the software insists upon using the laptops built in speaker? The good news is my voice is clearly record via the built in microphone but sadly selecting the sound card for the computer still makes the robot ladies voice to be recorded from the speaker opposed to the sound card? I must have selected every option in dozens of combinations and it still won't record her from the sound card. EDIT: I believe this has been sorted out - Not sure why the previous selection didn't work as I selected the same bloody thing five other times! The program must have been in some kind of unknown state. Cripes . . .

OK on to the next steps how do I configure Audacity to record the sound from the computers sound card and not from the built in microphone?

OK just got home and couldn't stand to wait for the week end to come so decided to move forward with this. I downloaded the image provided by Thanatar and unzipped the file and mounted it with Win32DiskImager. Once complete I moved the Micro SD card to the RPi and loaded it up. When the RPi booted up I see the system indicating various messages but nothing is happening? Did I miss a step here or is there something else that needs to be done to make the program continue? EDIT: Never mind the system just stated rebooting! I guess I'm too used to seeing a scrolling dot or status bar. Let me continue on and go from here - Thanatar, you're indeed Santa Clause in the making! Thank You Sir!

I will review what KevinNH has offered up above in a few minutes. But I have to crawl before I can walk then haul aszz using KevinNH's method later. Ha . . .

I agree just a cursory review of what you outlined here indeed offers much more than what Alexa can at the moment. Have you been able to link a state variable to a voice command? In the interim I would have to accept a defined value would have to be met and the very same speech phrase would than be triggered.

Ha - That is so awesome to hear and know! The Alpha / Beta team has been working hard to offer the masses the very best user experience from the DB / GEM package. There are many more features yet to come so keep your eyes open in my install thread and in the general announcements at the Brultech site. I don't believe it was a very hard sell to make me consider that HiFi Berry Amp - LOL, SOLD! Too funny that was one of the hits I saw before I posted my ask to you on Google! To offer you some insight the over all goal is to create a proof of concept which I hope can be shared to the DB / GEM forum members in hopes of offering proactive / reactive voice announced power level, energy level, temp level, pulse level conditions and values. This is my round about way to get it going before Amazon offers two way feedback from Echo, Dot, Tap.

Thanatar, Do you have a recommendation for a MP3 sound capture suite to use? I thought there would be some kind of option on that site to define the test to speech and than down load the text string.

You Sir, must really work for Santa Clause because this has been a fantastic gift for this X-MAS! Thank you so much for sharing because this new solution will round out my existing HA for two other ongoing projects that can use such a feature. Merry Christmas and the very best to you and yours in 2017!