Indigo Domotics

Hi all,

I am trying to let Indigo (v7) speak a variable.
I thought that using %%v:ID%% worked, but it doesn't. I am using the standard "speak" field in the Indigo GUI. I would like to avoid python because the action shall be maintainable by my father

Thanks

I don't believe that the Speak field in the Indigo UI supports substitutions.

I've built a speak utility into one of my plugins, it is currently for Airfoil setups but could pretty easily be modified to give you flexibility like being able to use whatever the system output is and being able to use variables. Just let me know what you need out of it entirely and I'll see what I can do (if you want to go down that route).

Ideally I would need a plugin where you can mix a combination of sentences + variables to be spoken, for example:

"The outside temperature is" + var_1 + "degrees with humidity of + "var_2" % + "Max temp will be " + var_3 + "and min temp will be" + var_4.

Something like this

My Announcements plugin does precisely this. It’s in the plugin store. It’s still in beta, but works well as it sits.


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I would just go with Dave's plugin , it's already there and working.

DaveL17 wrote:

My Announcements plugin does precisely this. It’s in the plugin store. It’s still in beta, but works well as it sits.


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I only find the Announcer plugin by nsheldon, but not your Announcement plugin

MarcoGT wrote:

I only find the Announcer plugin by nsheldon, but not your Announcement plugin

Try the GIT link for it if you can't find it.

Yes, I got it from Git.
I created a new announcement device, but then I can I create a schedule to speak that announcement?

I'm not sure if his are callable or not, I know they are devices but the only action I know of is to refresh the announcements. If you want to try mine out you can get it from my Git repository and it's an action rather than a device so it can be called on the fly.

Your solution works fine, thanks a lot.
Thanks also to Dave for the support.

Yes, my plugin is system output agnostic. It's just for constructing the announcements themselves.

I'll take care of getting it up on the store (thought I had done that).

Speaking of speaking variables...can that be done with a Python script?

Thanks,

Carl

Yes it can:

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indigo.server.speak("Hello world", waitUntilDone=True)