RobOS Home Speaker

RobOS Home Speaker turns your workstation into a multi-room smart speaker intercom and broadcast audio hub, bridging developer workflows and home automation directly to Google Home and Nest smart speakers on the local network without cloud dependencies.

Features

Push-to-Talk Voice Walkie-Talkie: Record voice notes directly in the desktop app with an animated live oscilloscope waveform and broadcast them instantly to any smart speaker with an optional attention chime.
Neural Text-to-Speech Intercom: Broadcast typed announcements in ultra-natural offline voices (Kokoro-82M and Piper neural models) with custom speech rates, attention chimes, and pre-canned developer presets (Build Succeeded, CI Failed, Dinner’s Ready, Coffee Brewed).
Custom Audio File Streaming: Drag-and-drop or browse any local audio file (MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AAC) to stream immediately to physical Google Home/Nest speakers.
Instant Soundboard: One-click audio effects (Intercom Chime, Attention Ping, Victory Fanfare, Alert Siren, Witch Laugh) sent to speakers.
Ambient Focus & Sleep Timer: Procedural soundscapes (Rain, Fireplace, Deep Brown Noise, Cyber Drone) streamed to smart speakers with an automated sleep timer (15m to 2h).
RobOS Media Player Music Library Integration: Browse, search, and stream your developer music collection from RobOS Audio Player (audio-library.json) directly to smart speakers or queue tracks for scheduled playback.
Scheduled Broadcasts & Alarms: Configure recurring (Daily, Weekdays, Weekends, custom days) or one-time alerts, morning chimes, standup announcements, or music alarms with automatic volume overrides.
Multi-Room & Broadcast All: Target an individual speaker (such as the Kitchen Speaker) or broadcast concurrently across every speaker in the home or office.
SDLC Agent CLI Bridge (robos-speaker): Trigger voice announcements, alerts, music playback, soundboard SFX, or schedules programmatically from CI scripts, git hooks, or autonomous AI agents.
DOM Snapshot Debugging: Exposes automated inspection and event testing over port 19200.

Supported Hardware

Google Nest Audio & Google Home
Google Nest Mini
Lenovo / Google Smart Clocks
Chromecast Audio and Cast-enabled smart displays

Files & Ports

App directory: packages/home-speaker/
CLI tool: packages/robos-cli/robos-speaker
Snapshot debug port: 19200
Config cache: ~/.config/robos/home-speakers.json
Schedules cache: ~/.config/robos/speaker-schedules.json
Media Player library: ~/.config/robos/audio-library.json

More in Desktop & Command Center

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