I have setup google tts and using IFTTT and webhooks have created a static commend to ask what the temperature is in my house. Google just responds with, “its cold”
Now I would like it to read the state of the samsung multipurpose sensor i have setup, HA has its setup as sensor.temperature. I have been trying to test with the service section in developer tools in HA but I am not 100% sure how to build the json. The static was easy
{"entity_id": "media_player.dining_room_speaker", "message": "it is cold"}
would someone mind helping me understand the formatting?
This was based on some posts I read where people are doing similar configs. but I would like to bed down simple manual tasks before i start shoving config in with out understanding it.
So, you’re putting that JSON in the URL that IFTTT calls? I don’t think that’ll work. There’s nothing in that workflow that’ll interpret your state variable - I’m guessing that it is speaking the name of the variable.
speak_temperature:
- service: tts.google_say
entity_id: media_player.home
data_template:
message: >
The temperature is {{states.sensor.temperature.state | int | string }}
No not in the URL, in the service section on HA dev tools. So i could test. but thanks to your reply i got it working perfectly and filled a gap in my understanding on HA. Really appreciate your time. Thanks a bunch
For the future could you maybe tell everyone how you got it working? It helps people that are trying to solve this themselves and are searching for answers.