Delay between services in action - TTS and Play media

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Hi guys,

I have the following action in my “Good morning automation” - once motion is detected it sends TTS message to my google home and then says the weather - this worked fine for a long time. Now I want to play a random MP3 in the end. The problem is that it starts playing an MP3 file immediately without finishing TTS.

  action:
  - service: tts.google_say
    entity_id: media_player.living_room_speaker
    data_template:
      message:  "HERE COMES MY WEATHER FORECAST"
  - service: media_player.play_media 
    data_template:                 
      entity_id: media_player.living_room_speaker            
      media_content_id: "https://MYDOMAIN.duckdns.org/local/mp3/intros/{{range(1, 20)|random}}.mp3"
      media_content_type: 'audio/mp3'

I undertand why it is doing that but is there a solution for this?
I know that I can add a delay between services (delay: 00:00:20), but my weather text could be just 15 seconds or could be 30 seconds, the same delay interval is not a nice solution.

Is there a way to call the second service after google home stopped saying the text?

2

Maybe a wait template? Does the media player state or attribute change when playing the weather forecast?

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3

Once TTS is played - media player state changes to idle, good point actually, will look in that direction

4

Didn’t know that wait_templait exists, this is a solution for my problem and will make many of my automations much simpler, thanks!

  - wait_template: "{{ is_state('media_player.living_room_speaker', 'idle') }}"
    timeout: '00:00:25'
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5

Hi,

In which part of the yaml file I have to place this line? I made the automation in UI but I can edit it with yaml ofcourse.

Can someone explain mealso what this line will do?

6

Another solution is to use the custom integration Chime TTS which combines the mp3 and TTS audio into a single local file to avoid any lag between the two.