Have Alexa Speak Current Weather from Ecobee state

[CaptainSweatpants]

So what I’m trying to do is have my Amazon Echo announce the current weather conditions from State data in my Ecobee4 (weather.ecobee4_thermostat.state) when i turn on an input_boolean.

I’m using node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2 for my tts stuff, but i cant enter custom template data for Alexa to transcribe in those nodes.

Any way of accomplishing this? Or do i have to approach this from a different angle?

Thanks

[E1cid]

Should be possible, what do you have so far?

[CaptainSweatpants]

Well, nothing. It’s usually a simple thing to do in any other scenario - A template would be best. But, as I said, the remote2 npm doesn’t allow for any call services, or data whatsoever — just plain text inputted into the node.

I don’t believe i can even send any sort of payload or the node either to tts its vars.

[E1cid]

Remote2 will accept a json payload, via routine node setting as custom. So all you need to do is create the payload for the remote2 node.

{ type: 'speak', payload: { type: 'regular', text: 'Hello!', devices: ['My Echo']}
{ type: 'speakAtVolume', payload: { type: 'regular', text: 'Hello!', volume: 50 devices: ['My Echo']}

    type: regular, ssml, announcement

[CaptainSweatpants]

Ah, perfect, I didn’t know I could do that. Thanks a lot

[ghayne]

In addition to the above solution you can feed the text you want to speak as a payload into a change node with a JSONata expression:

[{"id":"2fd3778d.f48f58","type":"change","z":"3286579d.4381e8","name":"","rules":[{"t":"set","p":"payload","pt":"msg","to":"{\t   \"type\": \"speak\",\t   \"payload\": {\t       \"type\": \"announcement\",\t       \"text\": payload,\t       \"volume\": \"50\",\t       \"devices\": [            \"Device\"        ]    \t   }\t}","tot":"jsonata"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":380,"y":380,"wires":[["bcbe034a.0f9b1"]]}]

Saves hard coding every message.