How to get voice to announce new email

[capecodder]

Using HomeSeer I have been starting to look into writing simple scripts and I am not doing well. First, what is the best way to have voice announce that a new email has been received? I can't even get it to work in an event. Eventually my goal is to have new email, weather and maybe other stuff announced when I come home and again when my wife gets home. (I always get home first so she doesn't see the the HA stuff that was delivered that day). I know this is basic but I have my own system to get going and others asking for my help with theirs So far the light bulb is still dimmed to 50% as far as HomeSeer is concerned in my mind..

Stan

 

[electron]

Are you using MAPI or pop3 (homeseer mail options)? If you use MAPI, make sure you keep the email client running. In order to announce something , you would use the hs.speak command i.e. hs.speak "this is a test".

 

[Skibum]

Run this by your HS setup:

sub main()
dim index
dim subject

index = hs.MailTrigger

subject = hs.MailSubject(index)

from = hs.MailFrom(index)

system.speak "You have mail, from, " & from & ". The subject is," & subject



end sub

 

[capecodder]

Thank you both. I'll work on it this weekend .


Stan