Play MP3 and TTS remotely on Windows machine with MPD

deviant · November 1, 2018, 9:17pm

Hi guys!
I was able to set up remote mpd media player to play sounds on remote windows machine.

Here is short guide:

Download https://github.com/tx4x/mpd-windows
Update mpd binary with this one https://www.musicpd.org/download/win32/0.20.23/mpd.exe since it is much stable based on my experiments.
Run mpd with bat file
Configure media player in HA config:

media_player:
  - platform: mpd
    host: <windows-pc-ip>
    port: 6600

There is one drawback - constantly opened console window. You can hide it by creating a task in Task Scheduler and set hidden flag to it.
Another solution can be found here: https://superuser.com/a/1120113/228955 (i didn’t test it though)

Wes93 · September 3, 2019, 7:22am

Thanks a lot!!
I have installed everything but i can’t play sound… i receive this error:

playlist: play 0:"https://XXXXXXXXXX/api/tts_proxy/df51e37c269aa94d38f93e537bf6e2020b21406c_en_-google_translate.mp3"
client: [0] command returned 0
exception: Failed to decode https://XXXXXXXXX/api/tts_proxy/df51e37c269aa94d38f93e537bf6e2020b21406c_en-_google_translate.mp3
exception: nested: CURL failed: Protocol “https” not supported or disabled in libcurl

Thanks a lot
Stefano