Just purchased a Ring doorbell, and thought it would be pretty good if the doorbell is activated, NR could play a mp3/wav file in Google Home, to alert family that the doorbell had been pressed. This would remove the reliance upon Ring using a mobile device app to provide the alert. Anyone achieve…

Sorted! The node-red-contrib-google-home-notify node works by casting to the google device, ....but so does node-red-contrib-chromecast EDIT - But see this post So it may be more descriptive if the chromecast node was called node-red-contrib-cast. I've attached a flow below, but it's simply a doo…

[image] TotallyInformation: Low-fi, I like it TBH - it can suffer from interference when someone lights the gas on the cooker!

[image] cymplecy: TBH - it can suffer from interference when someone lights the gas on the cooker! :scream: I keep meaning to create a vibration sensor for the washing machine so as to increase the weekend wash efficiency factor :wink: I had also thought to create a poor-man's Internet alar…

Getting back on-topic ... [image] Paul-Reed: Using node-red-contrib-ringdoorbell I can get the alert, but struggling with playing a tone in google home. Where did you get to in terms of sending something to Google Home? Do you have a shareable flow?

[image] Paul-Reed: struggling with playing a tone in google home Could this be a possibility??? [image] node-red-contrib-google-home-notify Node-Red nodes for google-home-notify library. With this node you can cast any String (up to 200 chars) to any google cast device.. Latest ve…

[image] TotallyInformation: Where did you get to in terms of sending something to Google Home? Nowhere! Hence this thread. I thought maybe someone else had already done this. [image] krambriw: Could this be a possibility??? I had a quick look at that last night, but couldn't get the …

[image] Paul-Reed: I'll have another look tonight, although I'm not sure it will play a MP3, it just converts text to a mp3 which plays on Google home. OK, this may help. I've not tried it obviously. [Arshad] Play audio file from server audio, actions-on-google, go…

[image] Paul-Reed: it just converts text to a mp3 which plays on Google home Well, you could use "Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all" from a famous ABBA song :star_struck:

I haven't done it with an MP3 over google home, but I have done it with a text to speech message to google home and chromecast. node-red-contrib-ringdoorbell to get the alert, a change node to set the payload to the desired string, and node-red-contrib-google-home-notify to pipe the string to chrome…

[image] JayDickson: ...and node-red-contrib-google-home-notify to pipe the string to chromecast compatible devices The git repo readme claims that passing in a url to a mp3 file will play the mp3, but unfortunately it's not working - there is an outstanding issue logged, but not confident it'…

Cool, but my wife is going to kill me! Hope you don't mind if I blame you :smile:

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Yeah, but that website probably can't turn the lights on if it's cloudy...

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