How to make the ELK speak a counter value??

[signal15]

Is this possible? There was a post from 2 years ago that said it wasn't, but it was something that ELK had on their radar. Has it been added and I'm just not finding it?

 

[pipeman]

Elk has a couple of their old "Application Notes" that deal with counters.
This one has nice examples.

http://www.elkproducts.com/support/M1_Appl...1news022306.htm

WHENEVER AutoArm (Counter 1) CHANGES TO 5
THEN ANNOUNCE Miscellaneous 5 (vm 243)

WHENEVER AutoArm (Counter 1) CHANGES TO 4
THEN ANNOUNCE Miscellaneous 4 (vm 242)

WHENEVER AutoArm (Counter 1) CHANGES TO 3
THEN ANNOUNCE Miscellaneous 3 (vm 241)

WHENEVER AutoArm (Counter 1) CHANGES TO 2
THEN ANNOUNCE Miscellaneous 2 (vm 240)

WHENEVER AutoArm (Counter 1) CHANGES TO 1
THEN ANNOUNCE Miscellaneous 1 (vm 239)

One thing I've come to find out, is you can use any unused input zone as a spoken phrase. So you can announce zone 100, 101, 102 etc and have these zones programmed with your counter values.

 

[signal15]

What does the [Say Number] voice clip do? I tried using it, and it doesn't say anything.

 

[Lagerhead]

One thing I've come to find out, is you can use any unused input zone as a spoken phrase. So you can announce zone 100, 101, 102 etc and have these zones programmed with your counter values.

Lighting Devices can be used in the same way.

What does the [Say Number] voice clip do? I tried using it, and it doesn't say anything.

This has already been answered authoritatively on Cocoontech.

 

[rexwilson]

Lighting Devices can be used in the same way.


This has already been answered authoritatively on Cocoontech.

just dug up this old thread by searching for "[say number]", as I'm trying to figure out how to program a rule to call an aribtrary phone and say meaningful things (i.e. the name of a zone that caused an alarm, or various other things). I'm using the "THEN DIAL phonenumber AND ANNOUNE xyz", and trying to figure out how to fine tune this. Am finding very little documentation or good examples anywhere. Above somebody referenced an "authoritative" answer on Cocoontech, but I can't seem to find it. Anybody got a url or any pointers to other helpful resources? Again, this is not about saying things through speakers in the house, it's about dialing a number on the phone and speaking to a human who will pick up the other end of the phone. Thanks much.

 

[Superjer2000]

I agree that the answer from 2008 indicating the question had been answered authoritatively was anything but helpful.  I have been trying to do something similar.  I think the authoritative answer came from Spanky (works at Elk) back in 2008 in a thread that contained the following:
 
Posted 07 July 2008 - 06:07 AM

Spanky, on Jul 6 2008, 09:19 AM, said:

I will research "say number" Monday and let you know.

The "Say Number" is used when saying the alarm zone number after an alarm. 
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I think you use the "Say Number" in conjunction with "Insert Condition" in a Voice Message so that when the alarm calls you it will say "BURGLAR ALARM ZONE 1" by programming [INSERT CONDITION] [SAY NUMBER].
 
The notes above about using unused zones and lights for additional voice message capacity is a great idea though.

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[Superjer2000]

Not sure if this is a bug or an unintended missing feature:
 
In the ELK M1 rules, when you select "Speak" you have a lot of options including lighting names, zone names etc.
 
They seem to have crippled the functionality in the voice dialer system though.  When you click on the "Select Message to Say" option there are considerably fewer options available (no zones, no lighting etc. etc.)  Any thoughts on why Elk would make the voice dialer so useless given the focus it receives in promotional materials?  Again, I'm not sure why the system doesn't have an option for [Announce Zone Name] or something where it would speak whatever is configured in the Voice Description section (Chime) for the zone.