Remote TTS to RPI3

[RobDYI]

I use an ugly solution which one HA creates and copies the TTS file to the www directory and then the other HA plays the audio file on omxplayer.

Use omxplayer or any media player on your pi to play TTS

I had trouble finding a suitable media player for my pi through the audio jack to an amp. I found omxplayer to work but it wasn’t a HA media player yet. I noticed that my TTS mp3’s were stored in the TTS directory so I setup a python script to copy the TTS cached mp3 and then delete the original. In HA, when I use the TTS service, I then call the python script to copy the cache mp3 and then use a switch to play on omxplayer. It work great so far. The copy python script import os import s…