Setting up sonos configuration

[Rotech]

Hello guys

Well seems that I jumped in very deep waters, installed Sonos plug went in to configuration page and jaws came out to get me. Don't even know where to start. Tried the help but that's over my head, would like to have the TTS working. Only have one player, where do I tell it so it can speak thru speakers??

Will be helpful if someone can share some basic setting to start off.

Thanks

[dcorsus]

Create TTS example part I

Hi Hector,

see below a bunch of screenshots which should walk your through setting this up. Have you decided what will trigger the TTS and what it is supposed to do? For example, announce the time every hour or chime, or you have an event from your door bell that you want to sound through your player?

First off all you need to click on Sonos Config (see pic below). The set the flags (see pic), then create your linkgroup, in the pic example below I called it TTS. You can use any name you like but it is important that the name is the same when we create the events. Before you leave the config page, save it (see pic)!!

Now it is time to create an event (see pic). Click on add event (see Pic).

Because I can upload on 6 pictures, I'll explain the rest in the next posting

Dirk

[dcorsus]

Create TTS example part II

In the Create event page, name your event. I named it HectorsTTS (see pic).

Go to the trigger Tab (Click on "Trigger") and select what your trigger should be. In the pic below, I leave it at manual to test it.

Now the last step is to set the action, which could be to play some sound, have it say something etc.

Click on the "ACTION" tab and then select "Speak" in the "add event" drop down list (see pic)

There is one important piece of information you need before you can create the action ... you need to know the name of your speaker client. You can find this by clicking on "SETUP" (see pic) and go to the bottom of the screen which has the speaker clients (see pic). In our example the speaker client is DIRK-DELL: DEFAULT.

Now back to the action page. Click on "Advanced View" (See Pic).

[dcorsus]

Create TTS example part III

Create your own actions on the action page. In the example, when we hit the manual trigger, the text "hello this is a test for Hector" will be spoken through the sonos players that we have selected. Don't forget to click on "Update" before leaving this screen and then on "SAVE" before leaving that screen (see pic).

You are now back in the event page and if you click on "RUN", you should hear your Sonos say "Hello ...."

When this works, define your trigger and don't forget to enable the event!

Good luck,

Dirk

[mark_anderson_us]

Hi Dirk

I just decided to setup my TTS again. All works OK, but speech is very quiet. Where/how can I override the volume for TTS?

Also, I'd like to create 2 TTS groups (Whoel House and first Floor)

is it possible to create a script that I can pass the text to speak. Secondly, pass the text to speak and TTS device (whole house or first floor)

Regards

mark

[sweden]

Delayed sound

Hello.
Nice whith a setting up Sonos system basics.

I having problems whith delayed sound in the speaker after trigger the anouncment.
I copyed the log file and tried different evens but having different delay.
The sound comes first when "- DoCheckAnnouncementQueue activated " is logged

2011-08-14 22:02:19 - Event - Event Trigger "Aktiviteter vid avlarmning"

2011-08-14 22:02:19 - SONOSCONTROLLER - SpeakIn called for Device = 0, Text = WELCOME HOME STEFAN AND ALEXANDRA, Wait=True, Host = $SONOSFILE$TTS$:ASROCKEFAULT
2011-08-14 22:03:06 - SONOSCONTROLLER - DoCheckAnnouncementQueue activated with HostName = :ASROCKEFAULT Text = WELCOME HOME STEFAN AND ALEXANDRA and LinkgroupName = TTS
2011-08-14 22:10:18 - Event - Event Trigger "Aktiviteter vid avlarmning"

2011-08-14 22:10:19 - SONOSCONTROLLER - SpeakIn called for Device = 0, Text = WELCOME HOME STEFAN AND ALEXANDRA, Wait=True, Host = $SONOSFILE$TTS$:ASROCKEFAULT
2011-08-14 22:10:33 - SONOSCONTROLLER - DoCheckAnnouncementQueue activated with HostName = :ASROCKEFAULT Text = WELCOME HOME STEFAN AND ALEXANDRA and LinkgroupName = TTS
2011-08-14 22:10:59 - Event - Event Trigger "JensenTTS"
2011-08-14 22:10:59 - SONOSCONTROLLER - SpeakIn called for Device = 0, Text = Hello stefan, Wait=False, Host = $SONOSFILE$TTS$:ASROCKEFAULT
2011-08-14 22:12:12 - SONOSCONTROLLER - DoCheckAnnouncementQueue activated with HostName = :ASROCKEFAULT Text = Hello stefan and LinkgroupName = TTS

[dcorsus]

Hi Dirk

I just decided to setup my TTS again. All works OK, but speech is very quiet. Where/how can I override the volume for TTS?

Also, I'd like to create 2 TTS groups (Whoel House and first Floor)

is it possible to create a script that I can pass the text to speak. Secondly, pass the text to speak and TTS device (whole house or first floor)

Regards

mark

Hi Mark,

Go to the sonos config page, see picture below where you can set the volume and click on the button to add a linkgroup. Don't forget to SAVE!

Name one Linkgroup WholeHouse and other FirstFloor, select which speakers should participate and save it all. After that create new events or update existing ones. To use scripts inside the speech, read up on HS documents. I had someone who had some scripts that would read like some random (I believe he used BLRANDOM) greetings in the morning.

Dirk

[dcorsus]

Hello.
Nice whith a setting up Sonos system basics.

I having problems whith delayed sound in the speaker after trigger the anouncment.
I copyed the log file and tried different evens but having different delay.
The sound comes first when "- DoCheckAnnouncementQueue activated " is logged

2011-08-14 22:02:19 - Event - Event Trigger "Aktiviteter vid avlarmning"

2011-08-14 22:02:19 - SONOSCONTROLLER - SpeakIn called for Device = 0, Text = WELCOME HOME STEFAN AND ALEXANDRA, Wait=True, Host = $SONOSFILE$TTS$:ASROCKEFAULT
2011-08-14 22:03:06 - SONOSCONTROLLER - DoCheckAnnouncementQueue activated with HostName = :ASROCKEFAULT Text = WELCOME HOME STEFAN AND ALEXANDRA and LinkgroupName = TTS
2011-08-14 22:10:18 - Event - Event Trigger "Aktiviteter vid avlarmning"

2011-08-14 22:10:19 - SONOSCONTROLLER - SpeakIn called for Device = 0, Text = WELCOME HOME STEFAN AND ALEXANDRA, Wait=True, Host = $SONOSFILE$TTS$:ASROCKEFAULT
2011-08-14 22:10:33 - SONOSCONTROLLER - DoCheckAnnouncementQueue activated with HostName = :ASROCKEFAULT Text = WELCOME HOME STEFAN AND ALEXANDRA and LinkgroupName = TTS
2011-08-14 22:10:59 - Event - Event Trigger "JensenTTS"
2011-08-14 22:10:59 - SONOSCONTROLLER - SpeakIn called for Device = 0, Text = Hello stefan, Wait=False, Host = $SONOSFILE$TTS$:ASROCKEFAULT
2011-08-14 22:12:12 - SONOSCONTROLLER - DoCheckAnnouncementQueue activated with HostName = :ASROCKEFAULT Text = Hello stefan and LinkgroupName = TTS

Hi Sweden,

which version of the plug-in are you using? There were some optimizations I believe in v .65. How many players are participating? The more players the longer it takes to link and save all information. Check also how many songs you have in your queue, saving the queue takes a few seconds per player when there are lot's of songs in the queue. It was changed in .v65 and now the queue is saved on the player itself rather than reading all queue info and store/restore it in/from the plug-in. I have another version waiting to be released which might shave a few seconds of that as well. What will also cause a delay in current version is when the announcement volume is very different from the current volume (or when the participating players are muted). The Sonos player ramps up slowly its volume, nothing I can do about that, but in the current version of the plug-in, I wait individually and therefore all delays are cumulative, in the version I'm working on (but haven't released yet), the delay is only set once to the worst player (either on mute or biggest difference between current volume and announcement volume). You have indeed 47 seconds of wait, that is VERY long. If you are not on version .v65 than download it here (http://board.homeseer.com/showpost.p...45&postcount=1). If you want to test the latest version I can send you a .DLL file but you need to email me in private.

Dirk

[Rotech]

Create your own actions on the action page. In the example, when we hit the manual trigger, the text "hello this is a test for Hector" will be spoken through the sonos players that we have selected. Don't forget to click on "Update" before leaving this screen and then on "SAVE" before leaving that screen (see pic).

You are now back in the event page and if you click on "RUN", you should hear your Sonos say "Hello ...."

When this works, define your trigger and don't forget to enable the event!

Good luck,

Dirk

Thank u very much for your effort in posting this ilustrations Dirk. But I have. Issue, where it's say speaker client host in the set page, I have box "blank"?

[mark_anderson_us]

Thank u very much for your effort in posting this ilustrations Dirk. But I have. Issue, where it's say speaker client host in the set page, I have box "blank"?

Hi Hector

I think it's becaue HSPSeaker is not running

Got to the scripts folder, open startup and uncomment the line that starts the speaker client if it's commented out

hs.Launch hs.GetAppPath & "\Speaker.exe","","",0 

[dcorsus]

Thank u very much for your effort in posting this ilustrations Dirk. But I have. Issue, where it's say speaker client host in the set page, I have box "blank"?

Hi Hector,

my first reaction would be that the "Speaker Client" is either not running or not properly configured.

What system are you running this on and what Windows SW version? Go find the homeseer directory and start the speaker.exe application if it isn't yet running.

Dirk

[Rotech]

Hi Hector,

my first reaction would be that the "Speaker Client" is either not running or not properly configured.

What system are you running this on and what Windows SW version? Go find the homeseer directory and start the speaker.exe application if it isn't yet running.

Dirk

Dirk

Iam running windows XP, speaker client is running (can hear PC talking) and this is whats in the startup page:

' This is the startup script
' It is run once when HomeSeer starts up
'
' You may also have Startup.vb and it will be run instead of this script.
'
Sub Main()
On Error Resume Next 'Just to make sure this completes.

hs.WriteLog "Startup", "Scripting is OK and is now running Startup.txt"

' If the speaker client is not running, start it
If Not hs.IsApplicationRunning("Speaker") Then
hs.Launch hs.GetAppPath & "\Speaker.exe", "", "", 0
End If


' Speak - uncomment the next line if you want HomeSeer to speak
' at startup.
'hs.Speak "Welcome to Home-Seer", True
' You may add your own commands to this script.
' See the scripting section of the HomeSeer help system for more information.
' You may access help by going to your HomeSeer website and clicking the HELP button,
' or by pointing your browser to the /help page of your HomeSeer system.

End Sub

[dcorsus]

Dirk

Iam running windows XP, speaker client is running (can hear PC talking) and this is whats in the startup page:

End Sub

Then leave the Host name set to $SONOS$TTS$ and make sure you have the "Speak To File" flag set in the Sonos config page (see pictures!).
By the way, the only thing you are interested in is what is written under instance (see attached picture here). You would remove ALL blanks and the stuff between quotes.

Dirk

[Rotech]

Then leave the Host name set to $SONOS$TTS$ and make sure you have the "Speak To File" flag set in the Sonos config page (see pictures!).
By the way, the only thing you are interested in is what is written under instance (see attached picture here). You would remove ALL blanks and the stuff between quotes.

Dirk

Seems to work, there some delay like 8 sec. So it can speak. Volume is set at 75 in order to hear it. I have "wait for speech to finish checked". Is this correct?

[Rotech]

Then leave the Host name set to $SONOS$TTS$ and make sure you have the "Speak To File" flag set in the Sonos config page (see pictures!).
By the way, the only thing you are interested in is what is written under instance (see attached picture here). You would remove ALL blanks and the stuff between quotes.

Dirk

So should I do it with the $Sonos$tts$ or the other way?