Haha that would have been a better idea 🤣. Also if your after more custom sounds, check the custom mp3 video 👍🏻. You can have the echo play any mp3. Great for movie quotes 🤣
@@drharis You can write a loop to keep calling the sound. However using the custom Mp3s would probably be easiest as you can just start an mp3 track (siren etc) and then stop it after a set time or when the disarm is triggered.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks Mark! So good of you to reply. When using MP3 again how do I loop it as we can only use 240 seconds on 1 track.? And do I use notify service or play media service?
Thanks Matt fro your videos - everytime new stuff. I was wondering if you have any plan soon to work with Tuya and NodeRED that we can use API with it - Cheers!
Hey mark. Thanks for the Video. I’ve been trying to implement a door bell announcement for a long time. Using Sonos but it would always interrupt my airplay groups! This works over the top using Alexa so great! Anyway to set the volume in the automation?
Im not sure with emulated hue as I haven't really touched it. I thought emulated hue only allowed devices to be detected as lights? I will actually be using emulated hue in an upcoming project so If I figure it out I will let you know :)
hey Mark, I have been using Alexa Media for 2 months now (inspired by your videos) and I am getting logged out of the integration once a week. So Basically all my routines stop working after roughly a week without any notification. Re-Authenticating Alexa Media with a "new" 2FA code does not work unless I restart the whole HA instance. Is this something you are NOT experiencing? Or do you just deal with it? Thanks!
Could you create a script to play the sound, then add a delay for the duration of the sound.. then just copy and paste the play & delay code to keep playing the sound as many times as needed? You’d need a way to stop it somehow though?
I think there’s a limit on the calls for the alexa skills sound effects (as in you can only call so many a second). I personally use the custom mp3s (link in description). Create your mp3 and hae a script call the service. Then on your alarm activated have it trigger that script (with delays if needed) untill the alarm is switched off. You can do this with a while condition. I use something similar to have glados say the backdooor is open. But the script calls random phrases so you just keep hearing her complain till its shut 🤣. Then she thanks you for complying. I may cover this in the next Alexa video 👍🏻
@@MarkWattTech I like that idea! I might use that for the kids bedroom lights. If no motion detected and the light is on after xx minutes, play a reminder over and over again. Or I could just use the motion to switch it off. But they’ll never learn! 🤷🏻♂️😂
Este tipo de cosas me hacen pensar que es mejor usar alexa como asistente de voz // This kind of thing makes me think that it is better to use alexa as a voice assistant.
I love when Creators say "Echo" to avoid triggering with "Alexa". We have to use "Echo" as our word since my daughter's name is too similar to "Alexa". 🤦♂️ 🤣 Great video. Thanks!
I am new to home assistant learning from you I have a problem My wifi tuya 3+1 generic smart switch is showing no entity and is not supported Its device type is tdq i posted for help at git hub and frenck closed my request saying its a duplicate request of devicd type tgq What is the next step
Are you able to find the ticket Franck is referring too? You could add additional notes to that ticket. The more popular a ticket is (e.g. the more requested it is) the more likely it is to be worked on.
The Alexa Media Player component doesn't Work anymore. Reauth necessary once a day, seems, that Amazon doesn't Like the unofficial usage of the API. Hope , Things get better with Matter..;)
Can I use the Alexa media files in HA, playing on my other media players (Nest Hub/Mini), like I can with for example Azure or Amazon?
Love this, thanks! I was hoping to hear some of the sounds as you were coding them! Press the call service button… PRESS IT!! 😂😂
Haha that would have been a better idea 🤣.
Also if your after more custom sounds, check the custom mp3 video 👍🏻. You can have the echo play any mp3. Great for movie quotes 🤣
@@MarkWattTech Hi Mark, Any way to loop these sounds? Want to use it as a siren on Alarm.
@@drharis You can write a loop to keep calling the sound. However using the custom Mp3s would probably be easiest as you can just start an mp3 track (siren etc) and then stop it after a set time or when the disarm is triggered.
@@MarkWattTech Thanks Mark! So good of you to reply. When using MP3 again how do I loop it as we can only use 240 seconds on 1 track.? And do I use notify service or play media service?
Is all this predicated on Nabu Casa/ Cloudfare etc being present?
Very cool, will implement that soon!
Great intro!
Also great video - this should come in handy!
Prefer it to the other 2 I recently tried? 🤣
@@MarkWattTech Yes, the best of the three (in my humble opinion) haha
@@makeitworktech appreciate the feedback 👊🏻
@@MarkWattTech 100%
@@AlexBoltonKing I was waiting for your comment 😉. Hows the combo of both?
Thanks a lot for this video. Just a question: is it possible to repeat the same sound again, for instance for four time?
Thanks Matt fro your videos - everytime new stuff. I was wondering if you have any plan soon to work with Tuya and NodeRED that we can use API with it - Cheers!
Excellent as always :)
Thanks matey 😁🙏🏻
Hey mark.
Thanks for the Video. I’ve been trying to implement a door bell announcement for a long time. Using Sonos but it would always interrupt my airplay groups! This works over the top using Alexa so great! Anyway to set the volume in the automation?
Glad it helped! You can manually set the volume of a tts notification :) (there are some example in the documentation).
I am trying to have Alexa announce the current time and weather using automation. How do you do that?
Thankyou for the great video, what is the best way to use alexa in home assistant between emulated hue and alexa play media?
Im not sure with emulated hue as I haven't really touched it. I thought emulated hue only allowed devices to be detected as lights?
I will actually be using emulated hue in an upcoming project so If I figure it out I will let you know :)
@@MarkWattTech thanks for the great job you're doing for the community!
hey Mark, I have been using Alexa Media for 2 months now (inspired by your videos) and I am getting logged out of the integration once a week. So Basically all my routines stop working after roughly a week without any notification. Re-Authenticating Alexa Media with a "new" 2FA code does not work unless I restart the whole HA instance. Is this something you are NOT experiencing? Or do you just deal with it? Thanks!
I have the same problem, didnt find any way to fix this yet...
Got this to work, but strangely only some of the sounds on the Amazon Sound Library page will play through the echo for some reason
Oh really? Is it any particular ones? Ive not tried all of them.
Oh nice, curious if google has this too...
I have a few Google based tutorials in the works and it will be something I look into :)
@@MarkWattTech Cool looking forward to
@@MarkWattTech any update on it? Waiting patiently for it :)
Great video! Is there a way to use any of these sounds repeatedly, lets say for a security alarm for example?
Could you create a script to play the sound, then add a delay for the duration of the sound.. then just copy and paste the play & delay code to keep playing the sound as many times as needed? You’d need a way to stop it somehow though?
I think there’s a limit on the calls for the alexa skills sound effects (as in you can only call so many a second).
I personally use the custom mp3s (link in description). Create your mp3 and hae a script call the service. Then on your alarm activated have it trigger that script (with delays if needed) untill the alarm is switched off. You can do this with a while condition.
I use something similar to have glados say the backdooor is open. But the script calls random phrases so you just keep hearing her complain till its shut 🤣. Then she thanks you for complying.
I may cover this in the next Alexa video 👍🏻
@@MarkWattTech I like that idea! I might use that for the kids bedroom lights. If no motion detected and the light is on after xx minutes, play a reminder over and over again. Or I could just use the motion to switch it off. But they’ll never learn! 🤷🏻♂️😂
@@MattFacer even with the automations they still don’t learn 🥲🤣
a barking dog triggered by by front door motion detector would be handy
Este tipo de cosas me hacen pensar que es mejor usar alexa como asistente de voz // This kind of thing makes me think that it is better to use alexa as a voice assistant.
I love when Creators say "Echo" to avoid triggering with "Alexa". We have to use "Echo" as our word since my daughter's name is too similar to "Alexa". 🤦♂️
🤣
Great video. Thanks!
Haha! Yeah its so much easier than beeping it out
I am new to home assistant learning from you
I have a problem
My wifi tuya 3+1 generic smart switch is showing no entity and is not supported
Its device type is tdq i posted for help at git hub and frenck closed my request saying its a duplicate request of devicd type tgq
What is the next step
Are you able to find the ticket Franck is referring too? You could add additional notes to that ticket. The more popular a ticket is (e.g. the more requested it is) the more likely it is to be worked on.
need more room assistant videos :(
I will be rebooting the whole RA series when I move house and have stuff setup.
@@MarkWattTech 🎉
The Alexa Media Player component doesn't Work anymore. Reauth necessary once a day, seems, that Amazon doesn't Like the unofficial usage of the API. Hope , Things get better with Matter..;)