Amazon Echo as "pure" speaker under OH 4.3.5

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I have some rules which sends me WhatsApps and/or mails, when there is a leakage noticed by a Shelly flood sensor. Addtional I have created a rule which switch on/off the HUE Lamps as an optical notification.
Idea is now also to add a Amazon Echo speaker als an voice output device under OH 4.3.5

I have installed the Amazon Echo binding.
What else I need to get the Amazon Echo speaker as an OH voice output device to play a OH based MP3 File.

I do NOT what to use the speaker as an voice recordnize system and manage the OH things with it.

What addtional stuff I need here?

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As far as I know you can’t play mp3 files on an Alexa speaker.

But you can send any text string to the textToSpeech channel:

String Echo_Living_Room_TTS "Text to Speech" (Alexa_Living_Room) {channel="amazonechocontrol:echo:account1:echo1:textToSpeech"}

Echo_Living_Room_TTS.sendCommand("Hello World")

Edit: you may find additional information here:

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and you can play different alarm sounds when you send a certain string to an alarm sound item that’s connected to the alarm sound channel like e.g. “ECHO:system_alerts_repetitive01”

here’s a list (which I have not completely tested):

List of sounds 
system_alerts_melodic_01	Soft melodic tone
system_alerts_melodic_02	Another melodic tone
system_alerts_melodic_03	Melodic tone 3
system_alerts_repetitive_01	Repetitive beep tone
system_alerts_repetitive_02	Repetitive tone 2
system_alerts_repetitive_03	More urgent repetitive tone
system_alerts_short_chime_01	Short chime
system_alerts_short_chime_02	Slightly different chime
system_alerts_tempo_01	Rhythmic alert
system_alerts_tempo_02	Faster tempo
system_alerts_tempo_03	Fastest tempo
amzn_sfx_bell_med_chime_01	Medium bell chime
amzn_sfx_doorbell_chime_01	Doorbell sound
amzn_sfx_phone_call_beep_01	Phone call-style beep
amzn_sfx_alarm_clock_beep_01	Alarm clock tone
amzn_sfx_electronic_beep_01	Electronic beep
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Thanks, but how to add the new item Echo which all his channels as a sink?
I can only use System Speaker and Web Audio.

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The Echo is here with all his channels.

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You can’t.
Just use an itemtype String and connect it to the textToSpeech Channel.
Then send either text/string commands or use the soundbank @Larsen mentioned:
Echo_Living_Room_TTS.sendCommand('<speak> This is Alexas regular speech, followed by the sound effect named Bear Groan Roar (1)<audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/animals/amzn_sfx_bear_groan_roar_01"/></speak>')

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I’m to stupid for that.
There was a channel created with a string.

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I have created a rule which send the command “Hello” to this channel, but nothing happens.

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In the logfile to command is received.

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But no hello comes from the speaker…
What I’m doing wrong?

When, e.g. I click on the Play button from the

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The echo ask me, which playlist to play…
So in priciple the Echo is connect to my OH system…

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Sorry, can’t help, I am not using the MainUI. All text based config …

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Thanks for your help.
meanwhile it works for me.
First I have had to adjust the Binding for the Amazon Konto.

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Then I took the right tts channel called „Sprich“

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And final created the blockly rule, which the loop and the Text which need to be given out by the Echo.

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Trigger is, when the Shelly flood becomes the signal that there is water.

The final look like now, that

  • I get a mail that the watersensor is active
  • I and the rest of the family gets a whatsapp that water is in the baseband
  • The Phlipps Hue lights start red blinking in the floor
  • And final now the Amazon Echo is giving me a 20 x Text Notifications.

PS: I have had same help from ChatGPT to do that…. :slight_smile:

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