If you're there, can you tell me what user app does the voice to the HomePod? Thanks.
edit: Found it. AirPlay Integration (beta). Note: beta?
Got it to announce changes in a switch state. Next up: Leak sensors! Would be awesome to have more definition that the EcoLink.
Would be super nice if it could send a text/iMessage.
Device status announcer. You can modify this to suit your needs. In my example it handles all my window sensors.
Rule activates virtual switch triggering device status announcer and telling me exactly which window is open
DSA
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Thanks. I had never heard of DSA.
I used RM only, just now, for leak sensors; it seems to work.
I wish I could resume HomePod mini playing audio and at a lower volume, but I've only been able to do that with manual (voice) intervention.
You can do it using a variable. Keep the variable populated with current volume. I have announcements at 100% then add a rule immediately after the announcement that sets the volume to the previous level present in the variable before the change.
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Super. Is there a way to resume playing of media on the pod?
Honestly not sure, I don't think so.... @bcopeland Any way to add PLAY control to home pod devices in hubitat?
Glad we are solving the presence conundrum,,, 
I'll be going out for a drive at some point. It seems like it's been raining for a couple weeks straight here.
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How about some arrangement where one Mini speaks to another Mini? You could tell it any manner of things, starting with "Hey Siri". Text messages, etc.
I jest, sort of.
I know what you mean... been pretty gloomy start to Winter here as well... (I need to find the comedian who got Siri and Alexa exchanging comments... Was the bloke who did who did the comedy TedX spot on email correspondence on an apartment re-design...
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So, if one HomePod is voice receive disabled, couldn't that be use to make "Hey Siri" commands to another one that is still listening. Again, could open a new world of things that could be done-anything that can be done by Siri, which is pretty much. I'm not jesting as much now.
edit: Uh oh. It probably knows my voice.
It does indeed work locally!
I unplugged the ethernet cable from the modem to the router and the announcements still worked!
Of course, the z-wave siren would work even without WiFi-pure Z-Wave.
Interestingly, It doesn't seem to work on the first 'wet' actuation.
It needs another one follow before it announces.
Pushover text still work the first time.
Hmmmm
edit: An arbitrary 5 second delay at the start of actions seems to have fixed it.
Hubitat's built-in TTS engine can work locally, but not the first time a new piece of Text is requested. When the built-in HE TTS engine is called with a new text string, the hub reaches out to Amazon's Polly cloud service (IIRC). This returns the audio file which the HE hub then caches locally on its internal eMMC storage. If this exact same TTS string is requested again, the locally cached audio file is used without any need to reach out to the cloud.
Thus, if local TTS is desired, it makes sense to not include things like date, time, or numeric value of a sensor in the text string. If the string keeps changing, then the hub has to reach out to the cloud each time.
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I just tested this. I can have all of my leak sensors be identified off line if they are activated once. Of course there are 15 of them.
I got rid of the 5 second delay and it seems to be working.
edit: I take it back-it didn't work.
This seems to work:
@rlithgow1 , I'm really liking these little guys. Thanks for turning me onto them!
For sound get one or 2 big ones...
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Yesterday, after I AirPlayed SiriusXm (I have an account for satellite radio in the car), from the SXM app, the HomePod mini would only do things that came from SiriusXM through the iPhone. It was stuck to only listening for that. I had to reset the pod. I thought that was interesting.
Siri would recognize the SiriusXM station, eg, "Siri, play Ozzy's Boneyard on SiriusXM", which was cool, but, again, I couldn't figure out how to get off only looking for SiriusXM (through the phone).
I'm tickled that I can play the local classical music and the Mets radio broadcast on the HomePod. Many radio stations are streamed now, apparently.
