Suggestions for speakers, etc. for announcements

[djh_wolf]

Aug '22, me.

@djh_wolf

Although many people seem to love echo speaks, I'm not a fan of needing to potentially 'maintain' something when amazon changes a bit of code etc.

Maybe I have the wrong end of the stick but I've never bothered with it for that reason.

My solution? 20 quid basic android box with Kiosk Browser and a cheap speaker.

I use them all over the house. Cheap and utterly faultless.

Still in use. No issues.

Best options for adding audio device to get audio notifications?

Basically, pick up a cheap-■■■ 2gb android https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0B2D5D5B3?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title Install fully Kiosk Browser on it, and set a fixed ip. Install the hubitat control driver and follow the awesome instructions This is my hubitat device: [20220826_074032] Simple webcore piston: [SmartSelect_20220826-074335_Chrome] Note that for some reason, on my cheap box, there's a short pause and it can miss a beat. So I just start a phrase with an additiona…

[ChubChub]

@user2164

about why I'm pushing back on solutions that have significantly better audio quality and more future potential... the "bar" I'm trying to reach is what the Elk M1G security panel can do for voice announcements, which except for reliability, is a very low bar. In addition to the TTS/rPi4/cheap solution, I've also figured out how I can use the original Elk M1G setup for announcements initiated from t

For speech, you can easily just run all the speakers in series; volume drops, but just compensate. The weirdness of series speakers will never happen in his described use case.

[john66public]

This topic has been idle for a bit. im hoping during this time some solution has come about.

I'm looking to make announcements on speakers but i have some requirements similar to others.
I don't want to use any speakers that require a cloud account or require internet access.
I don't use any speakers that require the hub to have Internet access.

[ogiewon]

I am not aware of any significant changes in the area of 100% local Text to Speech (TTS) devices.

[marktheknife]

@john66public is asking if there are any new TTS solutions that are 100.00% local since this thread was created (only about 9 months ago, so it’s not exactly ancient history).

What are you talking about ?

[croweflight]

Tried to get Chromecast app and notification app to send a TTS notificatio to a nest home hub. I failed. I was able to use the chromecast app to see the nest mini's and the nest hub and was able to craft a notification to send. But the only thing that happened was a sort of chime sound from the nest hub followed by the chromecast app going into an error loop which could only be stopped by uninstalling the chromecast app. I even tried a RM app to initialize the hub once a minute. No difference.