Play a short sound to send data to a nearby OVOS device — no network needed. The device needs the ggwave listener installed and turned on, and its microphone needs to hear this speaker.
- Anything within earshot of the speaker can hear it, including other people's devices. Do not send anything you would not say out loud.
- The receiving device only acts on this if its ggwave listener is enabled. If nothing happens, that is probably why.
- A Wi-Fi password sent this way is sent as sound, in the clear, to anyone listening.
Device listening
The receiving device only acts on a sound if its ggwave listener is turned on, and it stays on until you turn it off. It is off to begin with, because anything within earshot could otherwise trigger the device. Turn it on while you send something, then turn it off.
You can also turn the listener on or off by voice — say “enable ggwave” or “disable ggwave”. Whether it starts on with the device is set in the ovos-audio-transformer-plugin-ggwave configuration, as start_enabled.
What to send
Advanced
Sends an empty bus message of this type. No data, just the trigger.
Sends the full serialized message. This is the general-purpose carrier — anything the bus can express can be sent this way.
Sound settings
50%
Hold this device close to the other device's microphone, in a quiet room, and keep both still while the sound plays.