LANnouncer

3.8
40 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

LANnouncer runs in the background, listening on LAN (local), SMS or GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) to announce events from your home automation system. LANnouncer supports TTS (text-to-speech), so that events can be fully spoken, plus a few basic alarms, strobes and text notifications. It can also take photos or prepare them from local IP cameras.

Alone, LANnouncer isn't very valuable. But with the help of a Home Automation System, IFTTT recipes or scripts, it can bring events to life.
Updated on
May 11, 2019

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Ratings and reviews

3.7
38 reviews
A Google user
April 7, 2019
Excellent addition to a SmartThings security system. I use it for chiming when a door is opened and to alarm (in addition to louder zigbee/z-wave sirens). I also use it to issue voice alerts about intrusions, AC turned off, and even to announce when I've arrived home--my kids like to swarm on me when I open the door. Setup is relatively easy but does require the SmartThings IDE and either some programming knowledge or the ability to follow directions very carefully. You can send commands to LANnouncer in many ways, such as using CORE, but I simply write my own scripts in the SmartThings IDE. I like this so much that I went ahead and donated $10 to the developer. Great work! Understandably, the developer does not make this app professionally, so in the year or more that I've used it I haven't seen added features or anything like that. But I know how much time it takes to update an app like this--I've done it myself--so I don't expect anything more than for it to keep working. And, in fact, it has always continued to work very reliably. One last thing: You need at least Android 5.0 lollipop for this to work. I bought a cheap Android tablet that I have mounted on the wall.
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A Google user
April 24, 2019
Registered premium user, no longer seems to work. on s9 note doesn't seem to function. worked with s6 edge. took away SMS with latest release and took gcm away next month. are you updating to fcm I think Google is calling it?
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A Google user
December 20, 2018
app stops/crashes when receiving a text message. seems this thing is not supported anymore...
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What's new

Google has deprecated Google Cloud Messaging. This version moves to Firebase Messaging and fixes a few issues caused by other recent Google API changes.

Previous versions of LANNouncer will stop working soon, probably around end-of-May 2019, when Google shuts down GCM. Consequently, this is a mandatory update.

If you have Premium, ensure "Enable GCM" (still called that) is on, rather than "No IFTTT Support", or the additional slots will not display.