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ROFLMAO!! That is the best (and most hilarious) kludge I have ever heard of!! It needs to go down in a history book somewhere!

I don't think the tonal controls affect the sound of speech, but only music.

Wife gave me two Amazon Echo 3s and a Amazon 8" Show for my birthday this week. The Echo 3s are very muted bassy and very hard to understand, compared to the Echo 1 and 2s. They seem to hear better over TV noise though. The speakers sound like they are down a long tube, trying to make them bassy, but it ruined the sound which a hollow effect. There are tone controls but I think they only work for music, which I do not use. The Amazon 8" Show is even worse for sound. I need to take the packing tape off the speakers maybe?

Nahhh! I would think GH has about the same thing and the process would be the same. Look at my flow diagram above and one step at a time. Perhaps somebody that has done this on GH speakers could help out here. I have a few but haven't opened their app for a year. Anytime I try to use a GH it says it needs mre information to be entered in the app. The app indicates nothing. Probably just GH playing their latest security game again. .

No input from human required. There is three ways to make this happen...Can't remember the syntax but IIRC you can announce to all speakers, announce to selected speakers or to only one speaker. If you have a lot of speakers you don't want to select them all because they have slight delays and the echo effect can make it hard to understand. Please note in my screen shot....."dryer stopped" is not the vocal that comes out of the speakers. This is only the same field used for other applications so Benoit used it. Inside the Alexa routines you select "dryer stopped" as a device and assign actions to do whatever you want when it comes in. I have multiple announcements for some event as it gives another ding or long pause between the sentences then. Delay can be done or HA controls between vocals also.

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I get the temperature from my CAO tags but that is a skill I loaded and not ISY involvement. This seems to have changed. I don't get a wanted status report now, either.

What are you doing in the Doctor's office today, Mr Smith? Your appointment was last week.

There is no hardware upgrade involved in the upgrade. What you get is increased capability enabled on many fronts. Years back my brother watched as IBM came in to upgrade the memory on a mainframe computer. The tech walked in, removed the back panel, flipped a dip switch and rebooted the machine. All for less than $80,000. The possibility the mainboard may have needed replacing was included in the price but...…? WTF? Anybody familiar with Apple products is very familiar with these processes as well as MS and Google now. Perhaps all those app you have been downloading were all included inside your smart phone in the first place? How many app are really already inside your smart phone's 256GB rom memory? How much have you paid for version upgrades from UDI so far?

I don't use that much so I am very familiar with it but try a different syntax like. Alexa...what is the status of XXXXXX. I think 'On' my be reserved for controls.

Now I want another Tab/bank of variable types. I use $cML.GREEN for program constants and now $sayDoorIsOpen style for vocal triggers! I need more categorisation for programming when I page through 500 variables to find the one I want.

Nothing here in southern Canada. I have been hearing "The dryer has stopped" and "Garage door one has opened" all day, from select speakers.

ISY can be the "smarts" as I suspected you are asking about. With the ISY Portal any state variable can be made to simulate a motion sensor of contact sensor device to Alexa. The Alexa app (not the weboste version) has routines than can basically trigger anything on your Alexa app, using anything on your Alexa app, these both include custom vocal phrases. Vocal-------->Alexa------->ISY Portal------>ISY------->ISY makes decision-------->ISY Portal converts stateVar to MS------->Alexa Routine vocalises,"Do it yourself"

Have a look at the SwitchLinc's status page in the admin console. See what the "On" level is set to. You can adjust this in the admin console as well as on the SwichLinc. I do this on purpose for my bathroom lights in the night, so when I tap the paddle up they only go to 12%. If I tell Alexa to turn them on, they go to 12%. The remembered ON level is a feature.

The SwitchLinc will go to it's preset On position when an On is sent. Set that to 100% in the devices status page or IIRC you can manually ramp the On level by using the paddle held until the light is at 100%. Think of it as a memory of the last level it was left at. To guarantee 100% you can also use Fast On also but no ramping will happen. (instantaneous)

I have noticed that doing announcements from all Aexa boxes can make it hard to understand the wording as the slight delays can make it sound so echoey, it is hard to decipher. Since I have restricted announcements to key areas of the house that are out of ear shod from each other.

No! ISY does not require any ports to be opened. IS and browsers have complete access to the internet via your router. Only external devices would need to have a hole punched in your router firewall. ISY can poll the ISY Portal and get answers back from inside ISY. Nothing is "pushed" from outside your firewall into ISY. It only appears that way from the user's viewpoint.

Mine all work fine. May be a slight delay of a few seconds and you can't trigger them more than about every 30 seconds each. I use them to announce garage door 1 open garage door 2 is open both garage doors are closed a leak detector has lost it's heartbeat a motion detector has reported a low battery motion has been detected in the workshop security system is enabled + a few more

Read the algorithm I posted. ISY can detect any holiday by formula as well as the fixed dates ones. Eater is very complex and based on lunar cycles. I have no solution for that one. Again and hopefully more simply put... Let's suppose you want to trigger a program on Labour Day (Canadian / US are the same day). This will trigger on the first Monday of every September, independent of year. If day is Monday and MM.DD >= 9.01 and MM.DD <- 9.07 Then do Labour Day things Else --- First you will need ISY v5.xx and a program to extract the month and date from ISY variables into your own state variable.

Long weekend style holidays take a combination of date and day filters. If Monday and 5.01 to 5.07 Sent using Tapatalk

The battery left is based on voltage and temperature factors and possibly usage. A 90 percent battery may drop to 2.7 vdc when in sub zero temperatures but will come back to say 2.95v when warmed up again. I have many different humidity sensors and none of them are stable within about 20 percent RH. Sent using Tapatalk

The provider has made some promise they will release the api should the above happen. Whatever. Sent using Tapatalk

I do not use the NS but rather KumoApps to populate state variables. I have seven units. - monitor garage door position and alert me if left open while gone or too long, announcing open and close via Alexa vocals - monitor temperatures, humidity and luminance on north and south side of house, predicting early HVAC setback times via differences - monitor wine cellar humidity for ventilation control - monitor fridge door open too long via light level, temperature and door position - monitor vehicle proximity for garage door open and home detection via loss of comm signal - thermostats calibration and main floor stat verification while away, ISY independent - monitor router temperature curve after some random failures

No support for BT. I don't know where a HA system would use BT with it's 15' range.

Just log in normally and stop the offending program. You will have to wait every step for ISY to catch up but it will service your requests eventually.