Alexa Media Player - TTS do not work

Configuration
1

Hello,

i need your help. I try to send a message to my alexa with tts for five days, but it doesn’t work. I have read a lot of tutorials and watched youtube videos, but i have no success :cry:

I have tried to use the Alexa_Media_Player with HACS and i have tried to use the HA Cloud, no success.

Today i found the blueprints for the first time. I have import the Blueprint with the name “Low Battery Cloud TTS Notification”. I have set the device and the media player. After that, i fired the automation manually… no success.

Now i dont know what i can do and what is my mistake. Do you have any good tutorials or idea?

2

Please share the configuration you used to send the tts and also what error message did you get?

3

Hello,

i do not have a configuration. I am use a “blueprint” called “Low Battery Cloud TTS Notification”.

blueprint:
  name: Low Battery Cloud TTS Notification
  description: This blueprint will send a Cloud TTS message when a device's battery
    is low
  domain: automation
  input:
    device:
      name: Device
      description: The device that has a battery level.
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: sensor
          device_class: battery
    media_player:
      name: Media Player
      description: The media player to send the TTS message to.
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: media_player
    media_player_volume:
      name: Media Player Volume (Optional)
      description: Set the media player's volume. (Leave at 0 or unset to leave unchanged)
      default: 0.0
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0.0
          max: 1.0
          step: 0.1
          mode: slider
    message:
      name: Message (Optional)
      description: 'Default: "Battery is low on {{ device_name }}"'
      default: Battery is low on {{ device_name }}
    tts_gender:
      name: TTS Gender (Optional)
      description: 'Default: "female"'
      default: female
    tts_language:
      name: TTS Language (Optional)
      description: 'Default: "en-GB"'
      default: en-GB
    battery_level:
      name: Battery level
      description: What level the device should be to trigger the notification.
      default: 10
      selector:
        number:
          min: 1.0
          max: 100.0
          unit_of_measurement: '%'
          step: 1.0
          mode: slider
  source_url: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/low-battery-cloud-tts-notification/255495
variables:
  battery_level: !input 'battery_level'
  device: !input 'device'
  device_name: '{{ states[device].name }}'
  media_player_volume: !input 'media_player_volume'
trigger:
  platform: numeric_state
  entity_id: !input 'device'
  below: !input 'battery_level'
action:
- choose:
  default:
  - condition: template
    value_template: '{{ media_player_volume != 0.0 }}'
  - service: media_player.volume_set
    entity_id: !input 'media_player'
    data:
      volume_level: '{{ media_player_volume }}'
- service: tts.cloud_say
  entity_id: !input 'media_player'
  data:
    message: !input 'message'
    options:
      gender: !input 'tts_gender'
    language: !input 'tts_language'

I have found a mistake. I think the blueprint doesnt work. I get the following message in the file-editor:

unknown tag !<!input> at line 55, column 40:
     ... ry_level: !input 'battery_level'

If i delete the row, the next “input…” is wrong… and so on…

4

We can try building an automation other than this blueprint. Please share the entity_id of the entity with the battery level and the media player.