Send audio

[off112a]

Hi,

Is it possible to send a wav file to play on the the satellite, like a doorbell or alarm?

[chatziko]

The satellite can play feedback (awake / done) sounds as explained in the README, but it cannot play a sound at an arbitrary moment.

IMHO the latter is probably outside the scope of a satellite, it has little to do with voice and there are lots of other ways to do it in HA (MPD or an ssh script are probably the easiest).

[collinstork]

The one use case I can think of for this is I have an intent "Ask Google {question}" for crap like "how tall is this celebrity". Google asst returns a .wav that currently I can play on any media player in home assistant. It would be nice to be able to play this wav on the speaker that was asked the question.

[synesthesiam]

That should come back in the TTS response though, shouldn't it @collinstork ?

[collinstork]

It does for some, but I believe that for some responses, google returns html instead of plain text so for this

service: google_assistant_sdk.send_text_command
data:
  command: how tall is mark hamill
  media_player: media_player.living_room

the response is

  responses:
  - text: null

but the audio response is still returned & played thru the media player specified.

[Scags104]

+1 satellites would be useful if they were media players in HA Thanks

[rbaugh]

Yes, since having the mic/speaker as a satellite, it would be nice to use TTS as an automation and have it played on the satellite speaker since it is there.