Effects and emotions

[Combie81]

Can you add emotions to the random selections? If so, how? I tried but it seems to read them out rather than convert and action them.

      [
      "Turning off Adults light... ",
      "Adults Light off... ",
      "Adults Light powering down... ",
      "Shutting down Adults lighting... ",
      "Adults light is now off... ",
      ]|random +[

      "<amazon:emotion name="excited" intensity="high">Is it snuggle time?</amazon:emotion>",
      "<amazon:effect name="whispered">ooh thats dark.</amazon:effect>",
      "<amazon:effect name="whispered">I hope you can see in the dark.</amazon:effect>",
      "<amazon:effect name="whispered">do you feel frightened too?</amazon:effect>",
      "<amazon:effect name="whispered">the world is a dark scary place.</amazon:effect>",
      "<amazon:effect name="whispered">please turn it on again, Im scared of the dark.</amazon:effect>",
      ]|random}}'

[3ative]

Use 'announce' not TTS

[3ative]

Also, check your punctuation. E.G. This works:

"<amazon:effect name ='whispered'>this is a test</amazon:effect>"

[Combie81]

Thanks for the incredibly quick replies :)

No joy - I get the following errors: "Incorrect type. Expected "object"." - line 1 "bad indentation of a mapping entry" - lines 18 & 20 "bad indentation of a sequence entry" - line 19 "end of the stream or a document seperator is expected" - lines 21-25 "unecpected end of the stream within a single quoted scalar" - line 26

tts_adults_light_off: alias: TTS Adults Light off sequence:

• service: notify.alexa_media data_template: target:

  • "{{ states.sensor.last_alexa.state }}" data: type: announce message: '{{ [ "Turning off Adults light... ", "Adults Light off... ", "Adults Light powering down... ", "Shutting down Adults lighting... ", "Adults light is now off... ", ]|random +[

    "Is it snuggle time?</amazon:emotion>", "ooh thats dark.</amazon:effect>", "I hope you can see in the dark.</amazon:effect>", "do you feel frightened too?</amazon:effect>", "the world is a dark scary place.</amazon:effect>", "please turn it on again, Im scared of the dark.</amazon:effect>", ]|random}}'

[3ative]

Oh hang a minute.... you're doing this with scripts and not Node-Red, right?

Hmmm, I could only get those "amazon emotions" working in Node-Red.

Lemme have a think about it and I'll get back to you

[Combie81]

Yeah, I've not taken the plunge down that rabbit hole yet! I really should look into it but setup isn't really needing more complexity atm..... hopefully I'll get a bit of time to go through some of Drzzs tutorials on it :P

[Combie81]

Just had a thought and am wondering if an escape char is required? like \ or ^ or whatever it uses?

[3ative]

Sorry for the slow replies, work has taken a step up lately and It's been hectic here.

• I haven't had a spare moment to work on this... I haven't forgotten about you thou :)

[Combie81]

I know the feeling! There's no rush - it's your free time so I'm glad of any help :)