I’m not sure if intercom is the correct word to use here, because I really don’t care about two way communication, but I want HA to be able to select a speaker by room and send output to that speaker. I have no idea what technology is out there on the speaker side of the house. I don’t want to spe…

Have you looked at chrome cast audios? That is what I am using in my Repo.

Chip, take a look at this post; it may give you some ideas. [image] Chromecast Radio with station and player selection Share your Projects! Chromecast (web)radio player with selectors for Radio Station and Speakers. Hardware used: Chromecast Audio and Chromecast “regular…

That’s awesome. My thought is to put one of these in each of the kids rooms so that I can tie them into HA for weather alerts and the alarm clock. I know the kids will figure out quickly enough that they can stream music to it from their phone as well. So how does chromecast deal with multiple so…

I haven’t set this up yet, but you can ask the OP.

By default a new source overrules the current source (and unfortunately doesn’t ‘restore’ the previous source like Sonos does).

Thanks I obviously don’t have one of these yet, so forgive me for continuing to pick your mind here. What is involved in “casting” something to this? How easy is it to establish and later re-establish another session? For example, if my kids are playing their songs through it and I can hear it d…

[image] turboc: so forgive me for continuing to pick your mind here No problem at all! I partly learned by asking a lot of questions myself. Like I said, unfortunately the “restore” feature doesn’t exist. I guess you can create one yourself for internet streams (save and then restart after) …

Thanks for helping out - @turboc is a great guy and gives a lot back.

[image] turboc: What would be involved for HA to either take over enough of the controls to reduce the volume That’s easy, you can just send commands for that which will not interrupt the stream. - service: media_player.volume_set data: entity_id: media_player.ca_l…

I like that. I can put a decibel meeter and if the sound is over a certain amount I can have HA turn down the volume on them. :slight_smile: This sounds like it may be a good solution. I can have HA play specific music to wake them up, and intermix it with HA yelling at them to get out of bed. …

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rpitera (Robert Pitera) March 1, 2017, 4:05pm 3

Chip, take a look at this post; it may give you some ideas.