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Playing a embedded audio file
Describe the problem you have/What new integration you would like
Currently media player is only able to play media from an url. I'd like to play media from an embedded file (e.g. in a byte array).
Please describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:
I've built a door bell based on esphome with i2s_audio and media player and and amplifier. It works fine as long as the device has network connection. But i need a fallback, to play a sound even if there is no network connection.
As a workarround i will try to use speaker play to play raw audio. But in that case i assume i will loose the codec support of media player. So the audio will propably be very limited by the space available.
Additional context
A config similar to img would be useful, referencing a file to be embedded in the binary.
definetly need embedding sounds for my projects. the actual uses of dfplayer seems obsolete for low bitrate sounds / just a fancy bip or startup sound. It's thing i've done on old ATTINY85 so it could work on a esp ^^ I have a quack.h sound i would love to embed in my esphome projects with buzzers/speakers
Try @jesserockz 's custom component for this purpose: https://github.com/jesserockz/esphome-components/tree/main/components/file
Maybe it would be worth including it in the main code...
But this can not be used with the media_player component, only with a speaker component. There can be cases where no speaker but a media_player is configured, for example with esphome_audio.
