Play a sound when entering the room on Google Home

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I’m finding bits and pieces (yes, I used chatGPT 4) to try to get this to work, but, I’m missing it. I just want a sound to play when I walk into the room via a Google Home device. I can announce other things via voice on the Google Home, but, I can’t get sounds to play. I have HA running inside of VirtualBox on a Mac Mini. Zigbee motion sensors work perfectly for my other 59 automations. Just cannot figure out how/where to put sounds. Explain it like I’m 5. Thank you.

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If I’m not mistaken, the file you want to play needs to be publicly accessible (for Google to access it) so put it in you ‘www’ folder somewhere, then made a service call such as:

      - service: media_player.play_media
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.broadcast_group
          media_content_id:: "https://redacted.ui.nabu.casa/local/sounds/doorbell_ring_chime.mp3"
          media_content_type: 'audio/mp3'

‘/local’ is the same as ‘/www’

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Make sure you put your “sound” into “My Media” then something like this should work, I tried it here and worked first time.

description: ""
mode: single
trigger:
  - type: motion
    platform: device
    device_id: 38ea012c124ab77b5d1421ed9e096d70
    entity_id: 7afdb2570308d95b72ebe71c915df82f
    domain: binary_sensor
condition: []
action:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.dining_room_display
    data:
      media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/Early-morning-sounds-in-a-village.mp3
      media_content_type: audio/mpeg
    metadata:
      title: Early-morning-sounds-in-a-village.mp3
      thumbnail: null
      media_class: music
      children_media_class: null
      navigateIds:
        - {}
        - media_content_type: app
          media_content_id: media-source://media_source
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Perfect–works flawlessly! The piece I wasn’t understanding was where to put the media. Somehow, I got to the Media area and simply uploaded my sound and your code pointed right to it.