Hi,
I’m trying to use Sonoff door sensors to notify via ChimeTTS that a door has been opened / closed. I have it working, it announces door open / door closed, but it stops the currently playing media. On the screens it shows a new media player has been used to run the TTS output essentially stopping whatever was being used before this. The media player then stays on the screen for a while (many minutes) before going back to default i.e. nothing running / screen saver.
I’m sending the announcement to 2 google home screens.
I’m using the GUI method to set this up as pretty much brand new to YAML and HA. The YAML is this if it helps:
alias: Front door open
description: “”
triggers:
- type: opened
device_id: door id
entity_id: ID of that
domain: binary_sensor
trigger: device
conditions:
actions: - action: chime_tts.say
metadata: {}
data:
message: Front door is open
cache: true
tts_platform: cloud
chime_path: bells
offset: 100
volume_level: 0.6
announce: true
enabled: true
target:
device_id:
- ID 1
- ID 2
mode: single
Could anyone help me with what is required to get this automation to not stop the currently playing media and just dip the volume, make the announcement and carry on?
The setting ‘announce’ according to AI guides should make this work. In reality, it seems the new media player opening to make the TTS cancels the previous action of what was playing.
Thanks,
James
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