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The problem with Alexa, Home, Siri, Cortana, is they have no concept or knowledge of what a device is. This must be defined by the user / maker.

 

Proactive and reactive voice announcements have already been made available for about 16 months now for Alexa. I have been using it to advise me of energy targets, temperature, humidity, voltage, security, and force protection. Julie U.S is the reactive system which automatically announces defined conditions without my intervention. Alexa, must be asked but this system provides real time updates and status of every facet of the home, property, weather, security, and force protection elements.

 

 

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It is possible to send announcements to google home to speak, but if you are currently playing music then it will be interrupted and not resumed.  That was a deal killer for me so I haven't pursued it further.  If someone figures out how to get around that, then I will look into it again.  There was a thread discussing this one here a few months ago.

http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/21252-speak-google-speechaudio-to-home-assistant/

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Sorry to resurrect this old thread but if you're running homeseer along with your isy you can install the Chromecast plugin to send announcements to any Chromecast or GH device.

 

https://forums.homeseer.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1545

Sending announcements is not that difficult, but as previously mentioned, it would interrupt what was currently playing and not resume after the announcement. Does the homeseer solution deal with that? Hopefully there's a way now.

 

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That homeseer plugin allows total control of the Google home, and all Chromecast devices. This includes announcements, play, pause, volume, audio/video source, etc. So you could make your announcement then tell GH to restore previous play state. It would be nice if there was an isy Chromecast plugin that did the same thing (eg. with polyglot) but I don't think anyone is developing that at this time.

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The homeseer plugin reports current playstate (playing, idle, paused, buffering, unknown), volume (%), media source (eg. Netflix, Spotify, etc), and what is currently playing (eg. artist/song). See attached screenshot. Given this information is available, I wonder if a plugin existed to link the Chromecast with the ISY to allow for announcements and actions based on Chromecast playstate, one could restart the previous media after the announcement is done.

 

 

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It would be awesome if ‘repeat after me’ was callable via API, or IFTTT.....

Until your post I did not know about the 'repeat after me', but what is the purpose ? I DO agree with you on having the callable feature on Broadcast or Repeat after me.....

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Well, I didn’t know either until post 10 above, and I share the confusion as to purpose.

 

If callable by API, then there is a use, otherwise..... I’m struggling as well..

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Hi,

 

Thought I'd let you know that with Logitech media server (aka squeezebox server) with the Chromecast bridge plugin installed, you can control a Chromecast device with precision, including managing playlists, playstate, volume, etc. If you install the spotty plugin you can even add Spotify support.

 

This may be useful for announcements (eg. Can tell squeezebox server to restart pervious playlist after announcement done).

 

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The problem with Alexa, Home, Siri, Cortana, is they have no concept or knowledge of what a device is. This must be defined by the user / maker.

 

Proactive and reactive voice announcements have already been made available for about 16 months now for Alexa. I have been using it to advise me of energy targets, temperature, humidity, voltage, security, and force protection. Julie U.S is the reactive system which automatically announces defined conditions without my intervention. Alexa, must be asked but this system provides real time updates and status of every facet of the home, property, weather, security, and force protection elements.

 

 

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Teken, What is Jullie US and where can we find info ?

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The assistant-relay works very well. You can broadcast custom messages (TTS) as well as a few preset messages. Any music playing is resumed after the broadcast notification. The interface is easy to use via network resources. Unfortunately I have only been able to get it working under Windows so it is not something that I can leave on all the time. 

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@Jimboor @msoileau

Could you guys give me hand with the NR for this. I got assistant-relay all setup and working on a Raspberry Pi... which was nothing short of a miracle with my lack of know-how... but I suck at understanding how to setup NRs. This was 100% a shot in the dark. I've tried a bunch of trial and error.. but not my strong point. I would really appreciate the help!26925511_ScreenShot2019-02-09at12_53_43PM.thumb.png.40b6571cba2dd892aa3090860158b113.png

 

For anyone else looking to do this... (like I said, this kind of stuff is way above my pay grade) I followed a couple of awesome tutorials and knocked it out of the park!

https://thisdavej.com/beginners-guide-to-installing-node-js-on-a-raspberry-pi/

https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-google-assistant-relay-v2-0-google-home-audio-notifications/136473/302

https://github.com/ogiewon/Hubitat/blob/master/Drivers/google-home-assistant-relay-v2.src/RaspberryPi-Assistant-Relay_v2.docx

 

 

 

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