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Customer.control4.com Click my account Then click my system Your license and the download links should appear.

Check out the "customchannels" service. It's on the blue sound pro stuff and pretty sure the regular blue sound stuff too. https://www.customchannels.net/ https://www.bluesoundprofessional.com/

Take a look at the documentation. In short, you create a trigger in voicemonkey which appears as a doorbell in Alexa. Create a routine in Alexa for when your voicemonkey routine triggers. Call it via the API (or webhook) they provide using the chowmain generic tcp driver.

Try voicemonkey. You can call it from the tcp driver. https://voicemonkey.io/help

Thanks Ari. I didn't even think of using the tcp driver. I'll have to give it a shot. Right now I'm doing it with Josh scenes watching some dummy switches but it's quickly becoming unmanageable.

Correct, this driver doesn't require Josh at all. It does require Internet access. There are text to speech sites you can download wav files from to use for announcements if You're concerned about Internet access.

Next best thing to creating josh scenes to trigger josh announcements: https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/text-to-speech-driver/ Absolutely love this driver and love not having to upload canned announcements. One thing to note if you go down this path - Google has multiple voices to choose. The standard voices are free but you will eventually pay usage on the "studio" voices. I hope that Josh adds a native feature to push announcements from c4 in the future.

Thanks!

Anyone else having issues with push notifications this morning?

Pretty sure I read somewhere that essential switches only have a blue led (no other colors).

@BY96 beat me to it

I'm not an apple guy so I can't speak to what you can trigger. But I do this from numerous devices inbound to c4 using the generic tcp driver from chowmain..

@avtexan did something similar using the magic buttons driver.

We use them mostly on washers and dryers and Kohler digital showers. This is one of the only 2 nits I have with the driver - the first being voice announcements 4 hours later after a reboot, and the second being no decimal ability for power monitoring (4 or 5, not 4.2 - whole numbers only). Other than that, the power monitoring is awesome.

Same thing happens to me after a reboot with Kasa plugs setup for power monitoring.