Thanks a bunch for the blueprint. Works great on the homepods but fails on the Amazon echos with the " having trouble accessing the simon says skill etc" since Alexa Media Player can’t use the same TTS service. That was after adding the external URL to Alexa media player - prior to that it errored out with Alexa telling me to add the external URL to Alexa Media Player. I am not the best with blueprints and thought to change things to work with the echo speakers but I hit a road block before the workday started and now its on the back burner.
Love this blueprint and having it from my dashboard, very cool! One suggestion I’d give is to send a volume as well. That may significantly complicate things (e.g. get current volume, set volume to the user-selected variable, send tts, reset volume to original) but could be a good QoL feature. I set this blueprint up for 8 of my sonos speakers around the house, and I know from some of my other automations that TTS can come through a lot quieter than I’d like if I’m trying to actually get someone’s attention. We usually listen to music at 10-20% volume, but TTS works best (i.e. isn’t too loud or too quiet) at something like 60%
Thanks for this blueprint.
What would be the best way to add an option to select which media player to cast the announce to inside the script?
So not have one script for each media player but just one script with the option to select where to cast to?
I tried it with a selfmade list but that just doesn’t look nice and fails when selecting more than one entry.
I tried it with entity but that gives me a huge list of all entities.
Add a media selector expects me to select media and not just the media player.
How would I modify it to select a minimum volume of the message?
Sometimes I lower the volume real low at nights in the kids room, but then next morning they don’t hear it at all when I message.
Same question please
I’ve been looking into this - I send TTS to Alexa in a very different way (no TTS engine installed, so this blueprint won’t work), but I’d still like to know how you add this to the dashboard with a Run button and multi-line message entry!