Play custom audio file on HomePod Mini

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Hello,
Recently I thought about buying a Ring Doorbell Gen2 as a replacement of my broken doorbell, but I discovered that it has no integration with HomeKit, so I thought that I could use HA to fill that gap.
(Mainly, I’d like to avoid buying a Chime, because I already have an HomePod that I think I could use for that purpose)

I’m using the Apple TV integration, and I am able to play custom files through the web media player and I also managed to use TTS for voice, but I couldn’t find a way to play a sound using an automation. This automation should be pretty simple to create.
(Ring integration detects that the button has been pressed → Play doorbell sound on HomePod Mini).

I have Samba access to my server (RPi 4) to access the media folder and I already enabled the /local/ web access to serve static files to some random applications that I have.

Does anybody know the service call that I should use?

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With some trial and error, I managed to reproduce an audio file hosted in the www folder (www/audio/test.mp3) on my HomePod Mini. The service call that I used was the following:

service: media_player.play_media
target:
  entity_id: media_player.homepod-mini
data:
  media_content_id: http://192.168.69.77:8123/local/audio/test.mp3
  media_content_type: music
  announce: true

Just out of curiosity, how could I have done the same by using the Media Sources as the origin?

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With the new Core 2022.9 update and the improved automation creation that came with it, I’ve managed to also use the other method by reproducing local media.

The media_content_id parameter looks like this:

media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/audio/test.mp3

(The audio file is placed in media/audio)

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Newb question here but in what file and under what config does this go?

service: media_player.play_media
target:
  entity_id: media_player.homepod-mini
data:
  media_content_id: http://192.168.69.77:8123/local/audio/test.mp3
  media_content_type: music
  announce: true

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This is a piece of code which is run by a Script or an Automation.

Since I made this post, the developers made it easier to do this kind of automation. Now there is a specific block made just for playing media on a media player of your choice.

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For me this dialog looks like this in HA 2024.10.x. I wonder if they rolled back that change or if I need to set some option somewhere…

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Simply add “http://HA-IP:PORT/local/filename.mp3” to your content ID and “music” to your “content type” fields, upload the file to the “www” folder and enjoy. The file size seems to be limited to 15MB.

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This is not working for me, I have test it with multiple audio files, and I even change the language, as music wasn’t accepted as a valid type, and when the actions seems to run i get a configuration error on the logs and nothing never plays.
My files are in my www folder.

I also tried putting them in the mediia folder, but not working either
Can someone help me figuring it out.

Thanks in advance

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Never mind, I manage to do it, it was a problem with the audio files I was trying to play. I made a .sh script to correct them using ffmpeg if any one is interested.