Play a Sound in Universal Dashboard

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To play sounds in Universal Dashboard, we’ll first need to host the sound files and then invoke some JavaScript to play the sound.

First, create a published folder that points to your media directory. I have a notification WAV file stored in this folder.

New-PSUPublishedFolder -RequestPath "/media" -Path "C:\ProgramData\UniversalAutomation\Repository\media"

Next, we can create a button on our dashboard to create a new Audio object and play it when the user clicks a button.

New-UDDashboard -Content {
    New-UDButton -Text 'Notification' -OnClick {
        Invoke-UDJavaScript -JavaScript 'var audio = new Audio("/media/notification.wav");
        audio.loop = false;
        audio.play(); '
    }
}

It’s also possible to play the sound after some sort of processing or event takes place. For example, you could use New-UDDynamic to load some data and then play a sound once it completes.

New-UDDynamic -Content {
    Start-Sleep 5
    Show-UDToast "Notification!"
    Invoke-UDJavaScript -JavaScript 'var audio = new Audio("/media/notification.wav");
    audio.loop = false;
    audio.play(); '
}