Automation ideas for pet dog whilst away?

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#41

I just tried the new function with my other flow the one that detects when the virtual motion sensor is tripped. This one doesn’t work it says No IP Given!

Yet the other flow that is triggered from a http request works perfectly.

Both function blocks have exactly the same code in them and both cast devices I removed the IP address and the port number.

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#42

Can you post the switch node settings, and a debug of the ouput of the mios node. If msg.payload is a string then you may need to set msg.payload = {}; at the start of the function node code.

#43

I’m not sure what the Switch node is doing? It was part of the example I first imported from the Github help page for the Cast node.

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The msg.payload at the end just outputs to Debug:

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#44

The switch node is just allowing the tripped value 1 through, so only fires when 1.

Any way msg.payload has been set to a numeric value. So the function needs to set it to an object before it can add objects etc to msg.payload

msg.payload = {};
var urls = ["http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert1.wav", 
            "http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert2.wav",
            "http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert3.wav",
            "http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert4.wav",
            "http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert5.wav"]

msg.payload.url = urls[Math.floor(Math.random() * urls.length)];
msg.payload.volume = 50;
msg.payload.contentType = "audio/vnd.wav";
msg.payload.ip = "192.168.0.19";
msg.payload["port"] = 8009;
node.send(msg);
setTimeout(function(){
delete msg.payload.url;
delete msg.payload.contentType;
msg.payload.volume = 30;
node.send(msg);
}, 3000);
return;
#45

OK thank you that appears to have fixed it !

#46

Final final ? Flow code with the new volume level controls and updated instructions.

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This is the amount of time until the volume will be decreased to the lower level, so make it long enough for your .wav files to finish playing. Default is 30000 aka 30 seconds. \n\n}, 30000);","x":590,"y":100,"wires":[]},{"id":"3b31a9bb.0784b6","type":"comment","z":"a300d823.d91888","name":"Function for Random Audio Files","info":"I uploaded my .wav files in to a Public HTTP folder I created. \n\nYou need to edit the Node-Red settings.js file to enable httpstatic\n\nDocumentation Here:\n\nhttps://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/runtime/configuration\n\nvar urls examples:\n\nvar urls = [\"http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert1.wav\",             \"http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert2.wav\",\n            \"http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert3.wav\"]\n            \nChange the IP address to that of your own Node-Red.\n\nOn Line 10 you can set the volume level for the .wav file to play at.\n\nmsg.payload.volume = 50\n\nOn Line 17 you can set the volume level that the Google Home speaker should return to after the .wav file has played.\n\nOn Lines 11 and 12 specifiy the static LAN IP address of your Google Home speaker and its port number 8009.\n\nmsg.payload.ip = \"192.168.0.19\";\nmsg.payload[\"port\"] = 8009;\n\nOn line 19 you can specifiy the timeout in milliseconds. 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#47

Hey cw-kid and everyone, very nice idea for pet dog.
I was reading here about GPS for cats: GPS für Katzen: Test & Empfehlungen (02/23) - PETMEISTER
Let me know, what you think about this.
Nice greetings
Gudrun

#48

I had 3 cats years ago. They always came back home.

GPS for kids might be an idea :blush:

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#49

This setup for playing random WAV files is still currently working with node-red-contrib-cast.

var urls = ["http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert1.wav", 
           "http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert2.wav",
           "http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert3.wav",
           "http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert4.wav",
           "http://192.168.0.4:1880/alert5.wav"]

msg.payload.url = urls[Math.floor(Math.random() * urls.length)];
msg.payload.volume = 50;
msg.payload.contentType = "audio/vnd.wav";
msg.payload.ip = "192.168.0.19";
msg.payload["port"] = 8009;
node.send(msg);
setTimeout(function(){
delete msg.payload.url;
delete msg.payload.contentType;
msg.payload.volume = 30;
node.send(msg);
}, 30000);
return;