No mic (echos) plz…….
I replaced all my google homes with these and could not be happier. They integrate with Hubitat effortlessly and my home talks to me. 
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/symfonisk-wifi-bookshelf-speaker-black-00357561/
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I second the suggestion of Sonos speakers. The Symfonisk sounds good (I have one). The Sonos One also sounds good. While it is twice as expensive as the Symfonisk, it is smaller in size. If you don't want a mic, the obsolete Play 1 (gen 2) has the same speakers as the Sonos One (gen 2) without the mic. I've seen them on eBay for $80-120.
I wanna do this as well. Can you program several random things for hubitat to speak? So good night for example could vary some every day?
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Not sure if that is possible with Hubitat alone. It is definitely possible using an external integration (like something on an RPi).
Edit: Maybe I didn't understand you correctly. When you said random, I thought you meant Hubitat choosing something randomly out of a pre-programmed list of things to say.
Yeah thats what I meant. I really haven't looked into this yet, but I was just wondering how easy it is to give it a list of several possible things to say for a single command, and have them come out random so it doesn't sound stale using the same phrase every time.
Are there raspberry pi connected to a speaker solutions?
What is your budget range?
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Yes. But nothing that is pre-packaged and as effortless as a Sonos.
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It is very easy to do so in Rule Machine. Here is an example of one of my old RM rules, where I have enabled the RANDOM feature just to show you that it is possible. In this example, I only have one spoken phrase.
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It was $30 
before knowing the cost. I wanted 11 of them. Now, I guess $100
I’ve seen Sonos Play:1 for less than $100 on eBay. They will definitely work for TTS, and streaming music.
Would you get those or the ikea ones
They’re about the same. The Sonos One and Play:1 is smaller in size.
Thanks, I just moved and I’m trying to do all my home automation at once and my eyes are bigger than my pockets . I was thinking they made small Chinese brand desktop echo sized speakers for like $30. Guess not. Those echos and google minis are great (if I trusted them)
Super easy with rule machine. No Pi needed at all.
Rule Machine 4.1.
- Notifications.
- Semi-colon delimited.
- Set the flag to ‘random’.
I copied a bunch of these and added some of my own to a notepad file, added the semi-colons and then pasted it into the notification field in the rule.
In this rule, every time our door keypad for a specific user is unlocked, a speaker near that door gives one of these random greetings. I set a delay of 2 seconds for time for the person to actually open the door and step into the room. Then I have it reset the volume so it’s not super loud the next time I play music.
High WAF on this rule.
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D’oh, I should have scrolled down before replying 
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