Hi all. I’m using the Manual HA Integration for a security Alarm currently. It works very well for both Armed Home and Armed Away using a combination of contact and motion sensors. When the alarm is triggered, my current actions are:
Lights flash on light loop script
notify.notify to all devices
Alexa Announce feature with something like “Intruder Alert. Intruder Alert.”
What I’d really like to do here is replace the Alexa Announce action with a siren coming out of the echo. Something like the set condition red siren from Battlestar Is this possible if I obtain a sound file of the siren? I couldn’t find it in the Alexa Media Player documentation (which is the HACS custom component I’m using). All I could find was info on playing music from a service or tts/announcements.
Thanks. I am able to get this to work, but I should have been more specific. The alarm siren sounds that are in Alexa are only a few seconds in length. Is there a way I could repeat/loop them? I guess that’s why I was thinking of playing my own media file for this. Make a 60 second siren clip, import into HA folder and play that media file through Alexa.
Resolved by using the Action Type: Repeat in my automation. It takes an Alexa Play Sound siren that is available, and repeats 5 times to make a ~20 second alarm. Not exactly what I was going for, but was the easiest to implement.
Now when Alarm is triggered, 3 actions occur. (Phone notifications, Alexa siren, Lights flash in a loop).
I actually went a different direction with this. Found/made an alarm sound I was happy with, in a local file (.mp3). Then added it to my Apple Music in it’s own playlist and called Alexa to play that.
Is this possible if I obtain a sound file of the siren? I couldn’t find it in the Alexa Media Player documentation (which is the HACS custom component I’m using). All I could find was info on playing music from a service or tts/announcements.