Installing an Axis speaker to run the door checkers off

I get transients and bums on the back of my commercial property no matter how many fences, "No Trespassing/You are under Surveillance" signs, lights, and cameras I install. Had one last Saturday night checking my back entrance door:
View attachment Clipboard_Back_Yard.20260221_104951Z-105035Z.162.mp4

I have BI sending a "You are trespassing" audio clip when the AI detects people back here after hours. The problem is my 4k-x's on this pole are mounted too high for people to hear the speakers reliably. So after some thinking I decided a needer a louder speaker that I could trigger from BI. I went ahead and purchased an Axis C1310-E Mk II network horn. I purchased it on eBay from someone who had never installed it so I was able to get it for a decent discount. These speakers are $600+ brand new.

I need to rent a lift to install it and I plan on doing that tomorrow so no pictures yet. But playing around with it, the damn thing is bullet proof and built like a shit brickhouse which one expects from an Axis engineered product. It's all metal so no plastic parts to fail. It has a microphone built into it as well so I can easily do 2-way talk through it if I wish. It powers via POE and it easily triggers from BI via a simple web link that the speaker creates in the management interface. I can even upload custom audio that I record for it to play if desired. Or I can have it's built in AI read text I type into it and it can announce it back in a regular human voice. Oh, and its friggin loud!! I made the mistake of playing some of its built-in files with the speaker next to me... Yeah, don't do that. Even pointing away from me it nearly knocked me out of my chair and deafened me in the left ear.

At any rate, I'll post some pictures tomorrow after I get it up on the building.

killerdan56 said:

Can you post a screen shot of the page where you get it to do text to speech.

Click to expand...

I'll do it when I get it hooked up. I have it back down and awaiting install tomorrow.

I got it up and installed this morning. Not really very exciting to look at like cameras are. I installed a little grab handle above it in case I need to work on it in the future with no lift. Metal roofs are slippery and there are no hand grabs where that thing is located.

Overall I'm impressed with the level of software available on board. It's easy enough to play a pre-installed audio clip via a http link so triggering with BI is flawless. I even created my own custom audio clip ("Get the fuck off my lawn!") and uploaded it to the speaker (I keep wanting to say "camera" instead of "speaker". It's weird installing a POE speaker).

I actually can't find the text to speech ability. I could have swore I saw it when I was playing with it yesterday but I'll be damn if I can find it now.

Hopefully I get some bums walking through the area tonight to see what kind of reaction I get. It's very loud. I expect some decent jump scares.