Simple project and I need help.

Sorry but I know very little about Sparkfun… I have a simple request and have spent hours researching what I am sure one of you can point me in the right direction in minutes.

I have several vacant properties in a bad area of the city. I have install a Wyze camera system that can trigger things using IFTTT. What I want is that when the camera detects motions it triggers the Wyze plug to turn on for a set amount of time - Like 15 seconds then turn off.

This part is what I need help with… I have a mp3 file of a dog barking on an SD card that I would like to play for that 15 seconds after motion is detected. Basically making anyone that approaches the front porch of the house think a dog is inside.

I need something simple that will just play an mp3 file on an SD card when power is turned on to it and then stop when power is shut off. Planing on running it through a separate speaker . KiNDA need it to not be too expensive as I have to to this for the front and back of about 5 properties.

Any ideas of what I need to buy and if Sparkfun or Arduino would work for this?

Thanks

MP

Hi MP,

We have a few development boards that could work for this project. Either an ESP8266 or ESP32-based development board like the [ESP32 Thing or the [ESP8266 Thing Dev could work. You could also use a [Particle Development Board. There are several different types of Particle Boards that you can use depending on your wireless connection for example, the [Particle Photon works over a WiFi connection. You can use any of these for your project paired with an MP3 Trigger of your choice. If you’re looking for an inexpensive option, the [Qwiic MP3 Trigger would be a good audio board here. We have other audio boards you can take a look at in our [Audio Board Category.

To get started with any of these boards, I would recommend reading through their Hookup Guides linked on their respective product pages either linked below the description or in the “Documents” tab. Lastly, while we do not have any IFTTT-specific guides for these IoT development boards, a quick search turns up quite a few tutorials you can take a look at to get started. For example, [this video from a former SparkFun contributor looks to be a good place to start with an ESP8266 dev board.

I hope this helps you get started with this project. If you have any follow-up questions about these or other SparkFun products you want to use in this project, let me know and I would be happy to help as much as I can.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxH1q2Tcdis)](Audio Boards - SparkFun Electronics)](SparkFun Qwiic MP3 Trigger - DEV-15165 - SparkFun Electronics)](Particle Photon (Headers) - WRL-13774 - SparkFun Electronics)](Particle - SparkFun Electronics)](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13711)](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13907)

Use the WAV trigger board… Yes, you will need to convert your MP3 file to WAV but that’s no big problem…

Let the WAV trigger stay powered up and let the Camera close a relay which in turn triggers the WAV trigger…

I use a whole bunch of these in an item we manufacture and they are bullet proof and reliable…