# Have Alexa Speak Current Weather from Ecobee state
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726
**Category:** General
**Created:** [3 June 2020 17:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726 "2020-06-03T17:59:06Z")
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### Author:  [@CaptainSweatpants](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/CaptainSweatpants)
#### Post date: [3 June 2020 17:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726/1 "2020-06-03T17:59:06Z")
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
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 07:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726/2 "2020-06-04T07:12:59Z")
Should be possible, what do you have so far?
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### Author:  [@CaptainSweatpants](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/CaptainSweatpants)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 17:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726/3 "2020-06-04T17:31:22Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [5 June 2020 08:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726/4 "2020-06-05T08:16:31Z")
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.
```auto
{ 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
```
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### Author:  [@CaptainSweatpants](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/CaptainSweatpants)
#### Post date: [5 June 2020 16:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726/5 "2020-06-05T16:39:29Z")
Ah, perfect, I didn’t know I could do that. Thanks a lot
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### Author:  [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)
#### Post date: [5 June 2020 17:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726/6 "2020-06-05T17:15:27Z")
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:
```auto
[{"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.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [19 June 2020 17:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/have-alexa-speak-current-weather-from-ecobee-state/27726/7 "2020-06-19T17:15:36Z")
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