Integration with something that can make a sound

Third party integrations
1

Trying to find a HA controllable device that can play a tune / make a noise when a sensor is triggered. Wifi or Zigbee preferred…

Any good suggestions?

Thanks a lot in advance!

2

I’m using Google Home devices as the doorbell. It works fine, although there’s a bit of a lag (Flic -> iPad -> IFTTT -> Node Red -> Google, so little wonder). However, the real issue is the visitor gets no feedback so they almost all knock too.

3

I use the Xiaomi Gateway as a doorbell. It has a bunch of inbuilt tunes plus you can apparently upload your own mp3’s for it to play, but I haven’t tried that.

You can trigger the sounds from HA whenever you want. For me its: someone presses the doorbell -> any media playing in the house gets paused -> the doorbell sounds and a message is sent to me via PushBullet -> if its dark outside the light out there gets turned on

4

Chromecast Audio and cheap powered pc speakers is another option.

5

raspberry pi with mpd and again cheap powered speakers

6

I hooked up a small buzzer speaker that comes with raspberry pi starter kits and then wrote this docker image with MQTT API to produce sounds.