Control room users have asked more than once to have some type of alert for when LLO goes into or out of Observing. I've made this, heavily based on our read only LLO medm command. This will create an epics connection to LLO after you input your ligo.org password and then it uses our text to speech program (picotts) to announce any changes to the L1:GRD-IFO_STATE (our intention bit). I put it in userscripts so: