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**alphatech** · April 30, 2021, 06:35 AM

Hi Jon thank you. Security wise, do you know if it is safe, like access key and etc, are they exposed?

Thanks

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**jon00** · April 30, 2021, 06:38 AM

Not sure what you mean by exposed?

**RogerL** · April 30, 2021, 07:34 AM

Originally posted by jon00 View Post

Voice Monkey is Alexa skill which allows you to trigger Alexa Routines remotely by simulating a doorbell press through its web API. In turn this allows (via the use of Alexa routines) to send Speech, Notifications (and in the case of Alexa devices with screens), Images, Video & Web sites.

This unmanaged plugin allows Voice Monkey integration with Homeseer 3 & 4 allowing you to make announcements to all Alexa devices, groups of Alexa devices or individually. In addition, you have the option to send images/URL/Video to screen enabled devices.

Speech is sent to Voice Monkey via normal ‘Speak Something’ in events etc. It uses ‘Virtual Speaker Clients’ to direct speech to individual or groups of Alexa devices.

Note: At the time of writing, Voice Monkey is free, however may charge in the future.

Compatible with Windows & Linux installations (but only tested on Ubuntu).

As always, it can be downloaded from my site (click on my banner below). Please post any comments here.

Great!! all things go well I should be testing it on Windows for you by Monday.

**dlmorgan999** · April 30, 2021, 07:43 AM

Oh wow! This sounds really cool Jon!!!! I'm definitely adding this to the list of things to work on this weekend.

**alphatech** · April 30, 2021, 11:15 AM

I didn't get a chance to look at it yet but assume it is an api and some point you will need to enter a key or password. If it is a black box, I wanted to make sure security wise was OK.

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**jon00** · April 30, 2021, 11:19 AM

Originally posted by alphatech View Post

I didn't get a chance to look at it yet but assume it is an api and some point you will need to enter a key or password. If it is a black box, I wanted to make sure security wise was OK.

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Yes it is sent as part of the the https string like most api's that provide you with personal keys.

**mda** · April 30, 2021, 04:41 PM

Hi jon00

i installed voicemonkey on HS3 and went through the setup. My speak-all money works if i trigger it from the VoiceMonkey website and via URL, but not from HS3. My HS3touch clients all speak, but the voicemonkey trigger from HS3 does not appear in the VoiceMonkey log or the Alex Activity log.

(I have tried it with no speaker selected and I have tried entering ALEXA:ALL as my speaker but neither seem to send a trigger to Voicemonkey.)

when my event runs, it looks like it should work based on what is in the log?

Apr-30 2:17:17 PM TTS Speak: ():testing. please ignore me.
Apr-30 2:17:17 PM Event Event Trigger "Test Speak All"
Apr-30 2:17:17 PM Event Event Test Speak All triggered by the event page 'Run' button.

Apr-30 2:23:00 PM TTS Speak: (ALEXA:ALL):testing. please ignore me.
Apr-30 2:23:00 PM Event Event Trigger "Test Speak All"
Apr-30 2:23:00 PM Event Event Test Speak All triggered by the event page 'Run' button.

when i run this script in HS3 to call the voicemonkey API url it does work, so i don't think it is a connectivity problem

&hs.GetURL("https://api.voicemonkey.io","/trigger?access_token=#masked#&secret_token=#masked#&monkey=s peak-all&announcement=Hello%20monkey",TRUE, 80)

in my HS3 log it looks like the plugin is starting up correctly?

Apr-30 2:06:14 PM Jon00_VMonkey Version 1.0.0
Apr-30 2:06:14 PM Jon00_VMonkey Ready
Apr-30 2:06:14 PM Jon00_VMonkey Starting plugin...
Apr-30 2:06:14 PM Jon00_VMonkey Connected

I don't know whether i am supposed to see the plugin create speakers in the log, but i do not see any Alexa speakers being created. I only see my HSTouch clients and local HS3 speaker client being created (I realize this might be normal but wanted to mention it just in case it isn't):

Apr-30 2:06:16 PM Speaker Speaker host added, Name: Hercules Instance: Default IP address: 127.0.0.1
Apr-30 2:06:14 PM Speaker Speaker host added, Name: Hercules Instance: downstairs IP address: 192.168.1.32
Apr-30 2:06:14 PM Speaker Speaker host added, Name: Hercules Instance: Laundry IP address: 192.168.1.34
Apr-30 2:06:14 PM Speaker Speaker host added, Name: Hercules Instance: WC IP address: 192.168.1.67
Apr-30 2:06:08 PM Speaker Speaker host added, Name: Hercules Instance: upstairs IP address: 192.168.1.49

I have confirmed that my access token and secret token are correct in the .ini file and Monkey1 is set to speak-all (and speak-all is the name of the money in VoiceMonkey, as you can see in the URL i pasted above that works). Logging is set to 1. Can i enable debug logging or try anything else to help figure this out?

Thanks for your help!

System info:

Current Date/Time: 4/30/2021 2:39:23 PM
HomeSeer Version: HS3 Pro Edition 3.0.0.548
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro - Work Station
System Uptime: 0 Days 0 Hours 33 Minutes 55 Seconds
IP Address: 192.168.1.5
Number of Devices: 1017
Number of Events: 746
Available Threads: 1200
HSTouch Enabled: True
Event Threads: 2
Event Trigger Eval Queue: 0
Event Trigger Priority Eval Queue: 0
Device Exec Queue: 0
HSTouch Event Queue: 0
Email Send Queue: 0
Anti Virus Installed: Windows Defender
In Virtual Machine: No MFG: hp
Enabled Plug-Ins
3.0.0.32: Autelis
2.0.61.0: BLBackup
2.0.11.0: BLEditor
3.0.55.0: BLGData
2.0.28.0: BLOccupied
1.0.5.0: BLShutdown
3.1.3.0: Device History
3.0.0.73: EasyTrigger
3.0.0.36: Ecobee
5.0.0.58: Global Cache Pro
3.0.0.325: Life360
3.1.0.18: MeiHarmonyHub
3.0.1.0: MyHSToken
1.2020.705.1301: MyQ
3.0.0.14: NetCAM
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0.0.0.52: Pushover 3P
1.0.0.7: Restart
30.0.0.37: RFXCOM
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3.0.1.262: Z-Wave

**jon00** · April 30, 2021, 06:13 PM

Your log formatting for speech commands looks odd.

As this picks up the speak command from the log, I can see it would not trigger.

You seem to have an additional colon:

Mine on both Windows and LInux:

Speak ():Hello World

You:

Speak: ():testing. please ignore me.

Not sure how that could be?

There have been quite a few downloads already. Have others got this working?

**dlmorgan999** · April 30, 2021, 06:15 PM

I experienced the same thing. I believe I followed all instructions correctly, but I don't hear anything from any of my Echo devices when using "Speak Something", although the VoiceMonkey trigger does work.

**dlmorgan999** · April 30, 2021, 06:17 PM

I also see the same line in my log:

Code:

Speak: ():This is a test of Jon's Alexa TTS plugin

**jon00** · April 30, 2021, 06:26 PM

OK, easy to fix. I will post an updated version tomorrow .

**dlmorgan999** · April 30, 2021, 06:30 PM

Thanks Jon!

**jon00** · April 30, 2021, 06:43 PM

Getting late here but I made the change (but not tested). Try V1.0.1 on my site and let me know.

To bed......

**dlmorgan999** · April 30, 2021, 07:32 PM

That fixed it. 🙂 Now it's time to play!

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