[Feature Request] Show only text on device with no text-to-speech?

tonesto7 / echo-speaks

Integrate your Amazon Echo devices into your Hubitat environment to create virtual Echo Devices. These virtual devices will allow you to speak text, make announcements, control media playback including volume, and many other Alexa features.

https://tonesto7.github.io/echo-speaks-docs/

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[Feature Request] Show only text on device with no text-to-speech? #1063

Open badbob001 opened 1 year ago

badbob001 commented 1 year ago

Is it possible have the device (eg: Echo Show) to only show a message on the screen but not use text-to-speech? So like an announcement, which shows the text, but without the audio part.

badbob001 commented 1 year ago

The Announce command, which shows and speaks the text, has a volume option, but even when setting the volume to zero, the echo will automatically raise the volume to about 3 before speaking.

badbob001 commented 1 year ago

Are there plans to add support for Echo Show devices? There is an Alexa Presentation Language that can be used to display text, images, slideshows, and even video to Show devices. Just text and images would be fine. https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/alexa-design/apl.html

Being able to show images and text would open up so many new features:

show messages/alerts that don't interrupt meetings/tv-watching
show image from camera?
show a list of upcoming events or todo list
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