Originally posted by JimSpy
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So, Alexa is not available as a speaker client?
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Check out this thread on using Polly to create a speech file from text. that file gets sent to an echo device, works nicely. If you use the same phrases a lot, which we typically do, they get cached locally and only messages with new or different text have to get generated going forward.
https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/ho...g-amazon-polly
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Sorry, when I ran into a problem with Alexa skills no longer working I moved everything over to Sonos and Google. I forgot that I also combined Polly with the solution in this thread.
https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/ho...home-assistant
HS3 SEL running Pro Edition 3.0.0.531 on Ubuntu 18.04, mono 5.20, 656 devices, 209 events.
Plug-Ins: Chromecast, Device History, EasyTrigger, Ecobee, JowiHue, LutronCaseta, MeiUnifi, PHLocation2, Pushover 3P, SDJ-Health, Sonos, WeatherFlow, weatherXML
Scripts: SparkMan's Lock Event, 5 of Jon00 scripts.
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Originally posted by Simplex Technology View Post
Chromecast pluginMy home is smarter than your honor roll student.
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You can use Alexa as a speaker client using Python.
Here running it as a media and speaker client on Home Assistant and it's been doing well. I can also now integrate it to MQTT and have HS send out the stuff to HA for the speaker client.
What is nice is that you can use any one Echo for this or all of them or even use motion sensing to trigger the right echo to use.
Here one Dot is connected to the Russound system and the audio is mixed with HS3 speaker (multiple runs of SAPI speaker going).- Pete
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Originally posted by Pete View PostYou can use Alexa as a speaker client using Python.
Here running it as a media and speaker client on Home Assistant and it's been doing well. I can also now integrate it to MQTT and have HS send out the stuff to HA for the speaker client.
What is nice is that you can use any one Echo for this or all of them or even use motion sensing to trigger the right echo to use.
Here one Dot is connected to the Russound system and the audio is mixed with HS3 speaker (multiple runs of SAPI speaker going).
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A Homeseer user here has already posted doing Alexa TTS running the Python code from Homeseer. I tested it to work fine.
You do not need a plugin to do this; you just execute the script to do TTS.
The issue I had running the script in Homeseer was relating to the cookies and a manual configuration using the login cookies.
The Home Assistant python script was fixed such that you only have to log in once to Amazon for this to work.
First time you log in it comes up with a standard login then an authentication image.
Read over here about it.
Alexa Media Player
- Pete
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HS4 Pro - V4.1.18.1 - Ubuntu 22.04 / Lenova Tiny M900 / 32Gb Ram
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I'm using node-red and this great plugin https://github.com/586837r/node-red-...-alexa-remote2
I have it setup so that Homeseer writes the Text to be spoken, the volume level, and the echo device names to a MQTT topic, this is monitored by node-red which triggers the flow to send the TTS to my devices.
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Like Megaman I use a node-red module to do this. I have a node-red server running on a raspberry pi and use a number of alexa specific node-red modules including the alexa-remote2 module. I can then use the excellent mcsMQTT plugin to publish a topic (in response to an HS event like a door open)and this triggers the node-red function which then relays the associated message to my Alexa speaker(s) for announcement.
The only problem I have found is that the node-red module seems to 'time-out' from Alexa after a day or 2 and requires manual intervention to re-establish a connection. I am currently investigating that problem.
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