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How do I get HA to voice announce events? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 year ago by Buelldozer to c/homeassistant

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For instance I want HA to announce that the garage door is opening. I already have the door monitored and can control it via HA.

I have HA integrated with Alexa via Nabu Casa but it appears to be a one way thing where she can ask HA to do something via NC but HA can't ask her to do something...like announce "The Garage Door is Opening."

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[–] rockhstrongo 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Text-to-speech (TTS), perhaps?

Create an automation that gets triggered by the garage door being open, and use TTS as the action. Play it on a media player entity you have connected to HA.

[–] Buelldozer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know that TTS existed. I'll have to look that up.

[–] huojtkeg 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They included many voice inprovements in the latest releases. Check out the release notes.