Hello,
I have several arylic devices and use the core integration of linkplay.
I would now like to output TTS on these devices.
What is currently the best way to output TTS, increase the volume, then turn the volume back down and continue playing the current music, whether Spotify or web radio?
I have the same question. At first glance, Music Assistant seems like the best option. When you send a TTS message to a Music Assistant player, it ensures that the current music—whether it’s Spotify or radio—is temporarily paused, plays a chime, and then resumes the music after the TTS message.
However, there’s a bug that ruins everything. When I send TTS messages via MA to a Linkplay player, they get played back at high speed, like a mouse is talking. If you send the TTS directly to the Linkplay player, it works fine, but you’ll need a different solution for pausing and resuming the music.
So the problem lies in the combination of Music Assistant and Linkplay players. It doesn’t matter whether you control the players via Home Assistant or DLNA from within MA.
Hopefully, a fix from MA will come soon.