Yeah, once I had the proof of concept working, I went back and picked up two more. I now have 2 on the main floor, one in my office (basement), and I’m going to get another one for the master suite upstairs - but I need a black one for that, and they were all sold out of black, so… I’ll just get one online. Not a big deal.
I’ll be making a video of it and getting it up on YouTube coming up in the near future. It’ll actually be a couple videos - one for unboxing the nest mini and adding to HA and configuring tts, and then one for doing the doorbell notifications. Those two videos are already on my list to make, but I’ve got a few other things I need to get done first based on some priority stuff for my setup… We’ll see what happens, but I will get them up soon.
What I did is provide an automation, which sends a message to the HA app at on my Android phone. With the app Speaky, one can convert text to speech for any app on the android device.
My automation is as follows (I’m using a Ubiquiti devices for my network, doorbell included) in addition I play a sound on the speakers of several of my Ubiquiti cameras:
That is far more complicated than it needs to be. You can just send TTS announcements to the phone via the companion app. I made a video about that as well.