Adding piper to a blueprint

Rainz3 · July 28, 2023, 9:11pm

I am trying to get a blueprint to use piper to announce over my google homes but am running into an issue. I’ve added this to the blueprint

- alias: Send notification to Google Home devices
  service: tts.speak
  data:
    cache: true
    media_player_entity_id: media_player.office_speaker
    message: '{{ agent.response.speech.plain.speech }}'
  target:
    entity_id: tts.piper
    language: 'en'

But get the error Message malformed: extra keys not allowed @ data[‘action’][4][‘target’][‘language’]
I can use it just fine if I use piper directly in an automation but I can’t seem to get it working with a blueprint.

Sir_Goodenough · August 5, 2023, 3:06am

Piper doesn’t work like that. It is not a tts…

mjolsen74 · January 21, 2024, 5:51am

did you ever figure it out? I am trying the almost the same with the same error. Trying to take the output of opeanAI and speak it to a media player.

Sir_Goodenough · January 21, 2024, 5:58am

github.com

SirGoodenough/HA_Blueprints/blob/b1fd838ceab6a5c0acf556da63e9b42d41680278/Scripts/tts_All_Message_Script_Blueprint.md

📣 This is a script that can use any of 11 integrated TTS Platforms Plus Piper via Wyoming Integration in Home Assistant to send a message to a media player. Some will require Google Type Speakers, some will require Non-Google type speakers. This BP can now be called on-the-fly and change the message & media_player when called.

## 📑 Changelog

* **2023-12-07**: Stop log spamming leak. [#32](https://github.com/SirGoodenough/HA_Blueprints/issues/32)
* **2023-09-29**: Add the ability to use Piper TTS.
  * Change several of the selectors to allow custom. Use at your own risk.
* **2023-08-23**: Add voice option for the Nabu-Casa tts-cloud.
* **2023-08-07**: Updates for Home Assistant 2023.8
  * Selector syntax change
  * Condition Selector addition (where applicable)
  * MQTT Discovery name changes (where applicable)
  * Clean-up code formatting
* **2023-07-17**: Updated language lists, external links, formatting, & field default.
* **2023-04-15**: Add ability to feed message and media_player change to script on the fly.
* **2023-03-01**: Add Author Tag. Bump HA required Version to 2023-3-0
* **2022-12-12**: Add Update Method Note, minor code change.
  * Name of Blueprint may have changed meaing you have to re-download with a new link.
  * If name changed, it is similar. Variables have not changed.
* **2022-05-05**: Updated for 2022.5.0 HA. Changed Choose to if / then statement.

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https://github.com/SirGoodenough/HA_Blueprints/blob/b1fd838ceab6a5c0acf556da63e9b42d41680278/Scripts/tts_All_Message_Script_Blueprint.yaml.

That shows how to run any of the 11 TTS core integrations and piper.
You can even just use the blueprint as is, it creates a script you can call to TTS. you can build it with inputs, ot use data statements to add all or some of the data live into the script.