Eisbaer2
(Wolfgang)
May 29, 2025, 8:52pm
1
For quite a while i was happy with announcements like this to my Squeezebox Radio (using the LMS integration):
notify:
- platform: lms_tts_notify
name: kitchen
tts_service: tts.google_say
media_player: media_player.kitchen
device_group: group.all_persons
alert_sound: Alert
volume: 0.4
But I just noticed that it doesn’t work anymore. For about one second I see on the display of my SBR:
“Connection timed out:
Announcement”
Anybody knows how to solve that problem?
psketch
(Peter)
May 30, 2025, 2:08pm
2
I’m not familiar with lms_tts_notify, so it might support other capabilities, but we support the native HA announce functionality in squeezebox now. Squeezebox (Lyrion Music Server) - Home Assistant
Eisbaer2
(Wolfgang)
May 30, 2025, 4:24pm
3
Same timed out message when using:
action: tts.speak
target:
entity_id: tts.google_translate_de_com
data:
media_player_entity_id: media_player.squeezebox_radio
message: test
May be it’s caused because I switched from a HA installation on RP4 to a VM on a Proxmox?
psketch
(Peter)
May 30, 2025, 5:27pm
4
Yes - that’s entirely possible. tts_speak will be creating a url for squeezebox to play. So, your LMS needs to be able to resolve that url. Maybe look in the logs for the url - they stay valid for a little while in my expecience and see if you can wget it from your LMS machine. Sounds like a networking issue to me tbh … I run my HA in a VM on proxmox and my LMS in an LXC container without any problems btw…
Eisbaer2
(Wolfgang)
June 1, 2025, 8:40pm
5
How did you do that? Do you have a good manual for that?
And how do you update LMS?
psketch
(Peter)
June 2, 2025, 10:05pm
6
I have a script to do the LMS update
export TERM=linux
RELEASE="stable"
case $RELEASE in
release) LATEST="hhttps://lyrion.org/lms-server-repository/latest.xml";;
stable) LATEST="https://lyrion.org/lms-server-repository/stable.xml";;
devel) LATEST="https://lyrion.org/lms-server-repository/dev.xml";;
*) LATEST="https://lyrion.org/lms-server-repository/stable.xml";;
esac
# LATEST=http://downloads.slimdevices.com/releases/nightly/stable.xml
tmp=$(mktemp)
wget -q $LATEST -O $tmp
# Add linefeeds after elements for parsing
sed -E -i 's/>/>\n/g' $tmp
while read line; do
echo $line | grep -q debamd64
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
DEBAMD64=$(echo $line)
fi
done < $tmp
rm -f $tmp
if [ "$DEBAMD64" != "" ]; then
NEW_REVISION=$(echo $DEBAMD64 | awk -F'revision=' '{print $2}' | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed 's|/>||' | sed 's|"||g')
NEW_URL=$(echo $DEBAMD64 | awk -F'url=' '{print $2}' | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed 's|/>||' | sed 's|"||g')
NEW_VERSION=$(echo $DEBAMD64 | awk -F'version=' '{print $2}' | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed 's|/>||' | sed 's|"||g')
#echo "NEW_REVISION : $NEW_REVISION"
#echo "NEW_URL : $NEW_URL"
#echo "NEW_VERSION : $NEW_VERSION"
else
echo "${YELLOW}No update information returned from slimdevices.com.${NORMAL}"
exit 1
fi
REVISION=$(head -n 1 /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/revision.txt)
if [ $NEW_REVISION -eq $REVISION ]; then
echo "${GREEN}Already running latest version v$NEW_VERSION r$REVISION${NORMAL}"
exit 1
fi
echo "Updating LMS v$NEW_VERSION r$REVISION to r$NEW_REVISION"
echo ""
wget -O ./latestlms.deb $NEW_URL
systemctl stop lyrionmusicserver
dpkg -i latestlms.deb
systemctl start lyrionmusicserver
sleep 30
(echo "wipecache"; sleep 1; echo "exit") | nc localhost 9090 > nul
# rm latestlms.deb
echo ""
echo "Update Complete"
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psketch
(Peter)
June 2, 2025, 10:08pm
7
HA VM was created using tteck script IIRC, and the LXC is just a Debian LXC with LMS installed
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Eisbaer2
(Wolfgang)
June 4, 2025, 8:30pm
8
The solution was so easy. I just had to add the IP of HA in the external url field in settings and my Squeezebox plays TTS…