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Randomize doorbell sound
Fire69
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Hi,
I'm looking for a way to randomize my doorbell sound.
I've got it running already but I want to extend it now to use 'seasonal' sounds, eg. now that Halloween is coming up I want some monster or witch sounds
Right now, I have 1 standard sound, and for last year I randomized 10 sounds for Christmas with a number var and round(random(10)) in a flow.
But I had to change my flows to switch between the default sound and the Christmas sounds.
Any idea how I could do this in an easy way so I have sounds for Easter, Halloween, Valentine, Christmas?
I'm looking for a way to randomize my doorbell sound.
I've got it running already but I want to extend it now to use 'seasonal' sounds, eg. now that Halloween is coming up I want some monster or witch sounds
Right now, I have 1 standard sound, and for last year I randomized 10 sounds for Christmas with a number var and round(random(10)) in a flow.
But I had to change my flows to switch between the default sound and the Christmas sounds.
Any idea how I could do this in an easy way so I have sounds for Easter, Halloween, Valentine, Christmas?
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I've been breaking my brains about this, but say I want to use 5 different sounds for every occasion, I'll end up with +20 flows at least.
And I would have to manually change them one by one if I decide to change the sounds next year.
So I'm looking for a way to do <if doorbell pressed> <and occasion is ...> <play random sound for that occasion>
Maybe setting variables for the seasons and playing sounds named #season#random1-10. I don't know if soundboard supports tags/variables - but it might.
Use this app, it lets u upload mp3's to homey, play it though homey or any other speaker u got connected.
Make flows using your doorbell as trigger, and u can set days or specific times in the and collum and use or as u wish.
This idk.
I'm looking to extend this, but the more I think about it, the more it seems there is no easy way to do it (especially because the soundboard app is very limited)
Does the doorbell matter? It's a cheap 5€ model from Action <span>
I changed everything back to my default sound for now so I can't give any screenshots anymore, but I did have a number variable that I randomized between 1 and 10 with a betterlogic card - round(random(10)) every time the doorbell was pushed.
So then I had then flows, <if var is 1>, <if var is 2>, ...
You can see that's not really the easiest or nicest way to do it (I think)
I guess I'll have to talk to @Emile to ask him to expand the soundboard app to include tags or something...
IT could have mattered, if you were using some sort of bell-device iwth multiple sounds, triggered by different commands. You never mentioned soundboard
If we could get tag support in soundboard, I would create looping flows that changed the variables, and then played them when the door bell was pushed.
That would indeed by the easiest way. I'll create a request on the github