Add a chime to Home Assistant setup

Hardware
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I have a Home Assistant setup that I built for fun when I realized my Yolink temp sensors in my freezers would work with it.

In the last few weeks I’ve added a Third Reality Zigbee hub and ‘smart plugs’ and have gotten them working on schedule etc.

When I ordered the plugs I got a motion sensor for outside so I can tell when someone comes up the drive. I tested it with one of the smart plugs and plugged a small light in to it, and it works fine.

What I’m wondering is if there is any kind of ‘chime’ I can use with my existing equipment that I could tell to go 'bonk!" when the motion sensor triggers…?

Thanks for any suggestions etc!

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Do you have any media player devices in HA yet. Like a Google Home, Amazon Alexa, HA Voice Preview Edition? If you have one, then you can play an audio file. I do this for a person detected by my front porch camara. I play an mp3 of a traditional doorbell sound.

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I have the Aeotec Doorbel 6 (actually Siren 6, without the button). It has multiple sounds you can configure and trigger from HA.

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Thanks for the response, I didn’t want anything like alexa etc to avoid privacy issues. I wasn’t aware of the HA Voice, so I will definitely check that out.

It looks like that is basically a voice command as well as ‘audio out’ device?

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Thank you I’ll check them out as well!!

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Looking at this I see it is a ‘z-wave’ product. Would I need a z-wave hub or something to integrate it with HA?

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Yes, you’d need a z-wave stick, same as you would need something for bluetooth, zigbee, Thread, Wifi, RF or IR. I have them all. The beauty of HA is that you are not bound to one technology, protocol or brand.

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