To me, Voice is the coolest part of the smart home. It gives it personality. It's something not just anyone has and helps your house stand apart from the pack. I use the [Amazon Polly TTS](https://home-assistant.io/components/tts/) component since it sounds the closest to Alexa. This gives a seemless transition from Alexa to Home Assistant responding. Most think it is just one system. The mixer allows TTS to mix right in over Music. The TP-Link Outlet is used to turn off the Mixer and AMP when we do not need it. It's a great inexpensive solution.
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<summary>Turn off all the voice devices when we are not home or in bed.</summary><palign="center">
Good Night Automation - /config/automation/good_night.yaml</a><br>
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<summary>All voice notifications are pushed though a speech engine. Random words and sentances are used to give the house some personality..</summary><palign="center">
People Greeter - /config/automation/Speech/announcements.yaml</a><br>
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<summary>Voice notifications for all sorts of things related to the house. (Temps, presence, doors open, windows open, garage door statuses, sunset.)</summary><palign="center">
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The Hubs help the home communicate across all the various protocols running in the house. The Hue hubs (I have 2 actually) talk to most of the lights. Some lights and switches talk over Zwave to the Wink Hub. The RM Pro talks 433Mhz to my EtekCity outlets. The ESPs while technically not a Hub do bridge the connection to all the windows and door sensors that are hardwired in my house. One set acts as my [DIY alarm system](http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2017/06/building-my-home-alarm-system-hardware.html) while the other act as [DIY Motion Sensors](http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2017/11/yet-another-inexpensive-motion-sensor.html).
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<summary>Using [Etekcity Outlets](http://amzn.to/2efNoBP) to control accent lighting above kitchen cabinets and room cutouts.</summary><palign="center">
Door Chime Automation - /config/automation/System/door_chime.yaml</a><br>
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Almost all my lights (40+) are white GE Link lights. I bought them early on before Hue came out with inexpensive white A19s. Even Ikea has great lights now. Colored lights are in the front sconces and also used in the living room. The Go lights are specifically for the kids since they are both wireless and also have a button on them making them very tactile for kids. The EtekCity outlets are the most inexpensive ($6) yet reliable outlets out there. I have them deployed all over the house as accent lighting with some rope lights in most of the home's cut outs.
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<summary>Turn on TV Time Lights (dim and color) at Sunset (if home and TV is on)</summary><palign="center">
<summary>Turns living room lights `red` when a Window or Door is opened past sunset. Resets to `yellow/gold` when all doors/windows are closed.</summary><palign="center">