Problem with TTS - Wrong path for creating announcements

[olof]

Hi there,

I'm trying to get TTS to Sonos to work. Through speaker client it works but not to Sonos. I have enabled debugging and think I have seen the root cause but not aware how to fix it.

DoCheckAnnouncementQueue adds file = C:\Windows\system32\html/Sonos/Announcements/Ann_ALL_0 to Queue

It is using not the correct path. It is using the system32 directory instead of the Homeseer install directory.

[dcorsus]

Hi there,

I'm trying to get TTS to Sonos to work. Through speaker client it works but not to Sonos. I have enabled debugging and think I have seen the root cause but not aware how to fix it.

DoCheckAnnouncementQueue adds file = C:\Windows\system32\html/Sonos/Announcements/Ann_ALL_0 to Queue

It is using not the correct path. It is using the system32 directory instead of the Homeseer install directory.

Interesting. I get the HomeSeer directory path from HS itself. Is this HS2 or HS3? Anything peculiar that you did with the install of HS? Which OS version? VMs?

Dirk

[olof]

Windows 10 pro x64, no VM, HS3 newest versions. It has worked before a few weeks but with lots of issues in terms of stability. Maybe because of trying all kinds of things it is broken. Where is it getting this path from

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[dcorsus]

Windows 10 pro x64, no VM, HS3 newest versions. It has worked before a few weeks but with lots of issues in terms of stability. Maybe because of trying all kinds of things it is broken. Where is it getting this path from

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I stand corrected. I get the IP address from HS but the path comes from a .NET call Environment.CurrentDirectory (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...v=vs.110).aspx)
If you turn the debug on and you restart the PI (or HS) you can see a log entry of what value .NET returned.

Did you create path entries perhaps and start HS not from its own directory? Use .bat files to start HS?

Dirk

[olof]

I used task scheduler to start hs3 that was causing the issue. I fixed it by using start in function at the scheduler in actions and added the directory. Thanks for the support and technical details. That helped to fix it easy

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[steevireno]

Trouble adding Sonos as a new speaker client...

All,

I have been reading over these posts and as a newbie, I am stuck on trying to add my Sonos Linkgroups as a new Speaker Client available for me to choose from. The only one I have as an option, is the default client server (default).

Your guidance is much appreciated.

Steve

[dcorsus]

All,

I have been reading over these posts and as a newbie, I am stuck on trying to add my Sonos Linkgroups as a new Speaker Client available for me to choose from. The only one I have as an option, is the default client server (default).

Your guidance is much appreciated.

Steve

Did you read the help file (tools -> help -> sonos). You really don't need to worry about which client to choose, just add the prefix and that's it. As it appears, in HS3 the text-to-speech-to-file actually is not using a speaker client anymore so just leave blank.

Dirk

[steevireno]

I did not see that help file. I will review that and let you know my findings.

Thanks!

Steve

[steevireno]

So I read through the help file (thank you!) and made some headway. However, I am not getting any audio to play, so something is still missing somewhere. See Attached screenshots (Note, for simplicity, I have this as a basic manual trigger for testing).

Thoughts?

[dcorsus]

So I read through the help file (thank you!) and made some headway. However, I am not getting any audio to play, so something is still missing somewhere. See Attached screenshots (Note, for simplicity, I have this as a basic manual trigger for testing).

Thoughts?

The action should be "Speak" not "play an audio File".

The help file shows you how to play a file by just writing the whole file+path in the speak field, it also shows how you can combine multiple file|speak|file actions.

Dirk

[steevireno]

But I don't want TTS - I want an audio file to be played instead (bell chime).

[dcorsus]

But I don't want TTS - I want an audio file to be played instead (bell chime).

"The help file shows you how to play a file by just writing the whole file+path in the speak field"

[steevireno]

Thanks for pointing that out - I missed it... All is working now! Thank you.