Creepy Alexa for Halloween
It's Halloween, turn your Alexa into a creepy monster and make it talk back at you and play random sounds across the house scarying everyone around.
Features:
- Talkback messages
- Random scary noises
- 1000s of noises to pick from
- Custom replies and triggers
- random replies
You will need the following nodes:
- node-red-contrib-alexaremotev2
- Alexa dev sounds
Settings
- Add new text enter text talkback
- Add noise enter noise url without the number count and the rest of the message and enter the number of clips
More about me:
If you want to get the latest updates to this project you can follow me via your preferred social media:
And if you feeling like buying me a coffee or supporting me in a more continuous way:
I hope you have enjoyed the project!
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