Can't send TTS to LMS/Squeezebox

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Thanks for the info, I’ll try installing a Squeezeplay and see what happens.

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@DrJeff: Do you have any “real” SB? If so, is it working on those?

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@frelev

No I don’t have any real squeezeBoxes I only have 6 SqueezeLites and 1 squeezePlay and it only works on the SqueezePlay.

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I tested on a few different instances of Squeezelite (raspberry Pi) and Squeezeplay (Mac) but got the same result on all. I also don’t have a real Squeezebox.

Does anyone know a command line option to push a stream to a squeeze instance for testing? I want to try pushing the same MP3 from a variety of locations and see if it makes a difference.

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I use squeezy for that

Also you can use HTTP for that look at this site for starters

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I posted this in another thread: Text-to-Speech (TTS) stops current media playing without resuming it

Basically, removing the “base_url” definition resolved my troubles. For completeness, I am running HA behind an NGINX proxy w/ Let’s Encrypt.

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@hoffsta; did you make any progress?

I´m still stuck with empty TTS file in SB

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No, squeezebox just won’t play the files. I removed base_url as prescribed above but it makes no difference. Haven’t had time to look into the command line options.

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Ok, same for me :frowning:

Too bad. TTS on SB would´ve been nice

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But it’s only this ssl issue, isn’t it? Without ssl I have no problems with tts on SB!

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Yes it seems to be related to SSL, I guess the best thing would be if the TTS url is created without https at all.
But I don´t know if its possible

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Guys, I’m facing the same issue. Started troubleshooting and found this:
[17-06-15 17:44:39.9196] Slim::Player::Protocols::HTTP::canSeekError (815) bitrate unknown for: http://172.31.20.10:8123/api/tts_proxy/a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3_pl_-_google.mp3

klaus@nuc-prod1:~/Docker/lms$ file a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3_pl_-google.mp3
a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3_pl-_google.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.4.0, contains: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v2, 32 kbps, 24 kHz, Monaural

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My TTS appears over on LMS, I actually can read the text in LMS that I sent from HASS but I can’t hear anything. Not using SSL or DNS Any Solution?
Thanks

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Still no solution for TTS + LMS +SSL? :slightly_frowning_face:

This is too bad, would be a nice feature

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This seems to be a combination to the parts involved somehow :frowning:
Trying to play other HTTPS content through LMS = OK, So HTTPS should be fine.
Trying to play TTS in browser or VLC = OK, So the file exists and is accessible.
Trying to play TTS via LMS = FAIL, So no clue why it isn’t working… maybe specific encoding problems, as seen in @kstaniek’s reply?
Does anyone know a way to change the bitrate/encoding of the TTS file google returns?

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Just signed up for Azure Cognitve Services (following https://www.home-assistant.io/components/tts.microsoft/)
That works just fine, so it seems google related.
For what it’s worth, google gives Mono, 24000Hz 32-bit float but Microsoft outputs Mono, 16000Hz 32-bit float.
I’ll just stick with Microsoft for now.

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This is what I added:

/etc/squeezeboxserver/convert.conf

mp3 mp3 squeezelite *
# RT:{BITRATE=–abr %B}D:{RESAMPLE=–resample %D}
[mpg123] -q -s -w - $FILE$ | [lame] --silent -q $QUALITY$ --resample 48000 - -

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So microsoft tts is working through ssl with squeezebox? Can you for example tts current temperature through squeezebox?

Thanks!

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You should be able to, I haven’t got mine setup to read out states tho. Just static phases like ‘there is someone at the door’

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This is a problem in squeezelite when playing short files (1.7 - 1.8.6).

Upgrade the squeezelite version preferably to the latest (squeezelite-1.9.6.1198-armv6hf.tar.gz).
Repository: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/squeezelite/linux/

Because I have already installed squeezelite enough:

Stop Squeezelite Player

sudo systemctl stop squeezelite.service

Create a squeezelite “work” directory and download squeezelite

mkdir squeezelite
cd squeezelite
wget -O squeezelite-armv6hf.tar.gz https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/squeezelite/linux/squeezelite-1.9.6.1198-armv6hf.tar.gz
tar -xvzf squeezelite-armv6hf.tar.gz

Move it to the usr directory, and make it executable

sudo mv squeezelite /usr/bin
sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/squeezelite

Start Squeezelite Player

sudo systemctl start squeezelite.service

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