Sensing audio noise and notifying me

[beelzerob]

Interesting. Well, so now the microphone is down to realistic pricing, I can go back armed with more info.

The funny thing is...the MAIN reason she didn't want to go with the microphone/dimming the light scenario was because I had bought a simple dimmer at Lowes for our shower (at the time I never saw a need to control it, and I'd rather use a $20 dimmer than one of the $80 OnQ ones), and she hated the idea of removing that dimmer and putting it on the shelf, wasting all $20 of it.

So, my fault for not using a controllable dimmer in the first place I guess. Either that, or I need to comeup with a more clever spot for the old dimmer.

 

[PaulD]

You guys are missing the obvious. Just install a controllable cut off valve in your hot water line. When baby make noise, your HA system shuts off hot water to shower and you will instantly know about it.

 

[electron]

So use the dimmer in another location, I'm sure you'll have a good place for it, or sell it on eBay.

 

[zpollock]

If you just want a budget friendly, sensitive, and non-powered mic to feed a sound card, check out the SuperCircuits PA-3.

that is a powered mic, albeit one that is easily powered.
"requires 6-15 volts DC"

You're right, I'd forgotten about that. 12V hardly counts though, everyone in HA has at least one 12V supply, right?

 

[beelzerob]

Actually, now that I've thought about it...the dimmer can stay where it is. I forgot that I installed a speaker in the shower. We just haven't used it because we can't spring for a distributed audio amp yet. But I do have a simple non-controllable amp I could use for the purpose. Why dim the lights when I can pipe the sound directly into the shower? Then we can tell if it's "Come get me NOOOOOWWW!!" crying, or just the small whimper of sleep.

 

[damage]

i've written an xPL app that issues messages in response to sound picked up from a mic. you can read more here http://bit.ly/7g9IOr it's kind of a hack and hasn't been tested a whole lot, but it works on a couple of my machines

 

[merts]

I found a VOX activated relay board on line, have not used it but i think i might. this can be used in other applications as well.

http://www.quasarelectronics.com/cpm014.htm

 

[ltyndall]

But to access the ELK listen in feature, I think you have to call in - either by regular POTS or by an IP connection. It isn't something you could turn on and leave on for a longer period of time.

That is better for calling and checking on the house when there is an alarm, or checking on the teenage kids to make sure they aren't throwing a party while you're gone. (A IP connection is required for stealth mode - otherwise the phone rings and ELK will pick up after a few rings).

I guess it might be possible to use the ELK module and hack the output and somehow get it to work with a whole house audio system. But that certainly isn't the "out of the box" experience and it would take some "creative engineering" to get it done (if it's even possible).

Are you saying there is a way to Listen in over the IP connection? Can you tell me how to do that, as I canot find any reference to that in the documentation or by searching?

Thanks for any information.

Regards,
Vector

 

[merts]

But to access the ELK listen in feature, I think you have to call in - either by regular POTS or by an IP connection. It isn't something you could turn on and leave on for a longer period of time.

That is better for calling and checking on the house when there is an alarm, or checking on the teenage kids to make sure they aren't throwing a party while you're gone. (A IP connection is required for stealth mode - otherwise the phone rings and ELK will pick up after a few rings).

I guess it might be possible to use the ELK module and hack the output and somehow get it to work with a whole house audio system. But that certainly isn't the "out of the box" experience and it would take some "creative engineering" to get it done (if it's even possible).

Are you saying there is a way to Listen in over the IP connection? Can you tell me how to do that, as I canot find any reference to that in the documentation or by searching?

Thanks for any information.

Regards,
Vector

Theres no way of doing this over ip. that would mean the m1 would have the way of doing voice over ip and it doesn't. plus how would you listen to it, is there a gui that you access so you can listen in on your computer.