Is it possible to create a dropdown helper with a list of some of my speakers (google) that shows their friendly name and then I can use that helper for tts? I can use the UI to create a dropdown helper but if I use the speakers’ friendly names I don’t know how to transform that into an entity_id so i can use it with tts.
A ‘quick-and-dirty’ approach would be to use entity_id’s that can be derived from the friendly names. In order to do so you can apply the slugify filter:
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/58724
Although this essentially amounts to guessing, it might work for you. Otherwise you need to loop over the speakers and compare names to retrieve the entity_id.
I use the following to select between my Alexa’s so I have a central place I can quickly do tts or type in commands if I want to:
With more recent additions to templating you may be able to acheive something similar without manually creating the mapper/dictionary, but still relatively efficiently compared to other methods. In this case, the options for the Input select needs to match the name of the entity. I don’t use Google home so I can’t tell you exactly what will be needed as your filter. For Alexa devices it would look something like the following In a script…
variables:
target: >
{% set x = states('input_select.alexa_state') %}
{{ expand(integration_entities('alexa_media'))
| selectattr('name', 'eq', x)
| map(attribute='entity_id') | join() }}
sequence:
- service: notify.notify
data:
message: The garage door has been open for 10 minutes.
target: '{{ target }}'
Thanks. I can get things to work inside the developer tools but when I try to put it all together inside a card I cannot get it to work. This is the code that I wrote:
type: entities
entities:
- entity: input_select.announcement_speaker
- entity: input_text.announcement_text
type: custom:text-input-row
name: Message
- type: call-service
name: ' '
icon: mdi:voice
action_name: Announce It...
service: tts.google_say
data_template:
message: '{{ states(''input_text.announcement_text'') }}'
entity_id: '{{ states(''input_text.announcement_speaker'') }}'
When I click Announce it i get the following error
Failed to call service tts/google_say. required key not provided @ data['entity_id']
Most dashboard cards do not accept templates… that is why, in the provided example, the call service in the card fires a script and the script handles the logic and templates.
Did this ever get solved for Google Mini?