Find bluetooth speaker

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

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

18

I am also waiting a solution for this

19

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.

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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

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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.

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Any news for Hassio users?

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

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

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

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Thank You so much!!! I can’t wait to try it!

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Can anybody give me a idea of how to install mopidy on Hassio? Im a total noob and cant find information on it.

Thanks

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Hi new to this myself Corey but hopefully I can help. Click on Hass.io tab & select Add on store & click on add new repository and add this link
https://github.com/bestlibre/hassio-addons & you will see the new add on’s on the list.

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Thanks so much I couldn’t figure out how to get the add-on store into my UI

So I managed to get it loaded but can’t get it to run.

I added this json file

{
“name”: “Mopidy”,
“version”: “0.2.3”,
“slug”: “mopidy”,
“description”: “mopidy music server”,
“url”: “https://github.com/bestlibre/hassio-addons/tree/master/mopidy”,
“startup”: “application”,
“boot”: “auto”,
“image”: “bestlibre/{arch}-mopidy”,
“options”: {“local_scan”: true,
“options”: []},
“schema”: {
“local_scan”: “bool?”,
“options”: [{“name”: “str”, “value”: “str”}]
},
“devices”: ["/dev/snd:/dev/snd:rwm"],
“ports”: {“6680/tcp”: 6680, “6600/tcp”: 6600},
“map”: [“share”],
“webui”: “http://[HOST]:[PORT:6680]”,
“host_ipc”: true
}

But when I hit save the run it switches back to the original json. I’m not sure why.

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I figured it out, I used this instead

{
“local_scan”: true,
“options”: [
{
“name”: “local/media_dir”,
“value”: “/share/mopidy/media”
},
{
“name”: “m3u/playlists_dir”,
“value”: “/share/mopidy/playlists/”
},
{
“name”: “gmusic/username”,
“value”: “MYUSER”
},
{
“name”: “gmusic/password”,
“value”: “MYPASSWORD”
}
]
}

Thanks so much buddy! Now it just figuring out how to configure it!

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Hello have you figure out to make it work ? if yes can you give us some advices ?

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no unfortunately not, I did get the mopidy add-on to load. And I can get sounds to play to my speaker that is connected to my pi via AUX. But that’s about it. I cant figure out how to automate sounds when devices trigger. I’ll be sure to let you know if/when I figure it out!

33

Another one trying to connect a Bluetooth speaker!

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Another person who would love to be able to connect a bluetooth speaker to HA so I can use it for TTY and Spotify. Going to try to go the aux route, but that’s far less favorable.

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Apologies for the necropost, but I’m still looking for how to use a bluetooth speaker as an external speaker/microphone, too…

It looks like there may be a chance of some development over here.