Very cool! Thanks for sharing. Whoop, Whoop!

Great ideas! Thank you!! Just thinking you could use "times of day" integration to help with your night mode.

Thank you for your effort. I really like what you've done. I did something similar but all through node red. Mainly door opens, Greetings, Security notification.

@ResinChemTech

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I really need to learn Node-RED at some point. I just learned to do everything in YAML back in the day and that's what I always fall back to. Thanks for watching... and taking time to comment!

Great video, and chanel. Can't wait to replicate it. Thank you.

@ResinChemTech

11 ай бұрын

Thanks... I appreciate it. This particular video is a bit dated and different methods are now available for making voice announcements, but I think the key (and I still use it) is the input_boolean for each notification that gives me an easy way to put all the notifications on "do not disturb" mode via a single switch without the need to hunt down and disable/enable each announcement automation. Thanks for watching and taking time to comment.

Thank you for this. I can't actually see your video, so just want to clarify: for every notification, you need a toggle, a timer, the notification automation, an on automation, and an off automation, is that correct? If not, I'd love to see your code, which is impossible for me to do through video. Thank you again for the great ideas!

@ResinChemTech

10 ай бұрын

You are most welcome. In a nutshell, every voice notification has an associated input_boolean (or toggle) and a snooze timer. There is then a master toggle for all notifications. Each notification can be individually snoozed by flipping the toggle. This starts its timer, which in my case is for two hours. After the timer expires, the toggle is flipped back on automatically. Using the snooze assures that I don't forget to turn the notification back on. Then there is the master toggle. When this is toggled off, it toggles all the other various notifications to off as well. This effectively snoozes all voice notifications for two hours. I often use this option when, for example, I might want to take an afternoon nap and don't want to be disturbed by a washer notification or a mail delivery notification. Finally, there is a night mode that automatically runs at 11 pm and toggles all voice notifications off. Another automation toggles them all back on a 8 am. This stops any notifications overnight, except my leak detection notifications which are exempt and always enabled. Each automation process that calls a voice notification then simply checks its own toggle state as a condition of the automation. If its toggle is on, then the voice announcement is made. Otherwise, the voice notification action does not run. Using this method lets me easily add new voice notifications to the process. The notification gets its own toggle and timer and is added to the list of notifications in the master on and off processes. Then everything else just works... snoozing, night mode, etc. I'd be happy to share my code, but since I made this video I've moved all my YAML into Home Assistant packages, where makes sharing something like the voice notifications a bit problematic as parts are in different packages... e.g. the timers and toggles are in a master voice notification package, but the washer voice notifications are in the washer automation package. But I plan on releasing a video over the next few weeks that focuses specifically on the use of toggles and timers and I'm sure that my voice notification process will be a part of that. Maybe I can create some code examples that go along with that video. In the meantime, don't hesitate to reach back out if you have any additional questions. I'd be happy to try to help.

Question. I have reaccuring announcements each day, several exact times a day. I don't know how they actually got in there either. But one day, I love you Veronica have a great day, and we are no longer together. It's NOT in my Google Calendar either. Thank you

@ResinChemTech

Жыл бұрын

I sounds like you have an automation setup at a particular time or based on a trigger that always fires at the same time. The next time this happens, go to your Settings->Automations. You should see the most recent automations that have fired. Use this to identify the particular automation that is sending out this message. You then can simply disable or delete this automation, or edit it so that it no longer makes this announcement. It is possible that it is some other routine or process outside of Home Assistant (e.g an Amazon or Google routine), or even something like IFTTT that is causing the announcement, if you are using any of those. But start with Home Assistant automations. If you don't find it there, then look for routines or automations that are generated outside of Home Assistant. I hope that helps!

the sound is not good I am quite disappointed

@ResinChemTech

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry if your sound isn't good. Can you provide some details as I don't experience issues with playback as compared to other videos? Is the volume too low... is it choppy? I'm certainly open to improving my videos... but I need to know what issues you are seeing.