Find bluetooth speaker

[virualdo]

@hevolution

how to find the MAC adress (as I beleive it will be used later)

@hevolution

This only enables hassio to track BT devices nearby. This does not allow to connect and USE the speaker as an audio output.

Yes, and in the known_devices.yaml you can find the MAC address of the bluetooth device.

[hevolution (Sidney Cohen)]

@virualdo

Yes, and in the known_devices.yaml you can find the MAC address of the bluetooth device.

Yes exactly. Now all I need is how to connect to it and use it as a remote speaker.

[manthoR (Flavien)]

Hello @hevolution
Do you resolve it ? I’m interrested in buying some bluetooth speakerphone to add a mic and a speaker in the same time to my hassio Pi3, but I’m not sure that will works…

[hevolution (Sidney Cohen)]

Nope. Still waiting for the update with BT controls. Adding a mic is easy if USB. Thar is my actual setup for emulating Google assistant.

[goprojojo]

@virualdo

platform: bluetooth_tracker

Well, I’m also very curious about how to pair with a Bluetooth speaker to work with Google Assistant.
The documentation is very brief: https://home-assistant.io/addons/bluetooth_bcm43xx/

[mbotje (Marco Boers)]

I am currently trying to achieve the same, connect rpi3 with JBL charge 3 speaker to use with Google Assistant.
I have enabled the Bluetooth device_tracker component and captured the Mac address.

This part looks promising except for the sudo part.

TTS on Bluetooth speaker via Raspberry Pi

Hi there, This demo provides the following custom components for Home Assistant, and allows them to place nicely together: Bluetooth tracker (presence detection) Bluetooth speaker (for TTS) Head over to the GitHub repo, where you can find the relevant files and documentation to get started: Finally got this working in my setup. I have HA running on a Raspberry Pi, and wanted to use a spare Bluetooth speaker for TTS. Got some great ideas from this post: I also used some of the steps fr…

I will take a look into creating it into an addon (or fork the current Bluetooth addon).

[mbotje (Marco Boers)]

Just leaving this as a possibly usefull resource

cameronhunter/sonos-bluetooth

[mefistofelis (mefisto666)]

Any update on that?

[enri]

i’m interested too, also in connecting multple bt speakers with Hass.io or using a Bluetooth Hands-free Speakerphone…

[hevolution (Sidney Cohen)]

nope … still looking …

[richardgewy (Richard G)]

Im interested in this too! Since i’m using Hassio there is no way to sudo install pulseaudio like the other post said

[MangeX (Magnus)]

I’m also interested in this. I too have Hassio.

[uwut]

I am also waiting a solution for this

[rlx3]

This would be really useful. Have the bluetooth set up and discovery as well but it only lists the bluetooth speaker as a gps and there’s no way to control it.

[anderstbl (Anders Tore Boye Lauridsen)]

Maybe someone would be able to submit a feature request for hass.io, for Bluetooth audio. I would surely love to have this feature as well

[uwut]

If you have an Android device available, you can get the voice by using notifications and notification reader. I use push bullet for notifications and out loud for reading those notifications.

[vpomax]

Any news for Hassio users?

[Corey_Maxim]

This would be a awesome addon for announcements! I want Morgan Freeman to welcome me home when i open the door lol

[Corey_Maxim]

Could this be accomplished using a speaker connected from a Aux cable plugged in directly to the pi?

[anderstbl (Anders Tore Boye Lauridsen)]

Yes. You can use the mopidy plugin for hassio for that