Amniotic: An ambient sound mixer for Home Assistant, for Sound Masking, Sleep Sounds, etc

[ovizii]

Is the add-on still working? I installed it, and it seems to run fine but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to operate it. I did read the wiki but that simply raised more questions
I found the device under MQTT and managed to add it to a dashboard.

And that is the end of it I have no idea how to operate that card added to my dashboard.
Basically, I am planning to download different noises from an online noise generator and combine them on my HA install. Its mostly .ogg files.

Any pointers? I am failing miserably on my own.

[edb (Edward)]

Still works as far as I know

Let me know what issues you’re having - or, better, raise an issue on GitHub, which I’ll be more likely to see.

[edb (Edward)]

Hi all,

I’ve resumed work on Amniotic recently. There’ll be a new version coming very soon (next week or so).

TL;DR

The new version can stream to media players!

Longer

‌This is a complete rewrite, so…‌

• It will be very basic at first. The features from the old version will need to be re-implemented over time.
• It’s now based on FFMpeg bindings rather than VLC.
• The entire mode of operating has changed: Amniotic just streams the audio, and doesn’t require any audio hardware on the machine it’s installed on.
• The decoding/mixing is done in Amniotic itself now, which involved more work, but makes everything vastly more flexible. Adding things like native, configurable white noise generation etc. should now be much more plausible.
• It’s now based on haco for managing interaction with HA, and aiomqtt for async MQTT.

[edb (Edward)]

Hi all,

Version 1.0 is now released! Again, it’s currently very bare-bones and running as an add-on isn’t ready yet.

Even so, if you’re feeling brave you can try it manually via Docker Compose now. See the example compose file.

I plan to have installing as an Add-On working within a week or so.