@Talvish thanks!
Hey @Talvish great work on this - really love what youâve done 
and really takes some of the silly wrinkles out of TTS through Sonos for my automations.
Iâm still fairly new to this - is there an easy way to call the script from Lovelace dynamically i.e. integrate it into a dashboard, with configurable parameters? Iâve tried the following but the script doesnât seem to like me using Helpers as service_data. My Helper options for sonos_entity_selector are the entity_ids for each speaker e.g. media_player.sonos_move:
type: entities
title: Text to Speech
entities:
- entity: input_text.sonos_tts_text
type: custom:text-input-row
name: Text
- entity: input_select.sonos_entity_selector
name: Select Sonos Device
- type: call-service
name: ' '
icon: ' '
action_name: Announce...
service: script.text_to_speech_on_sonos
service_data:
entity_id: input_select.sonos_entity_selector
message: input_text.sonos_tts_text
volume_level: 0.4
show_header_toggle: true
state_color: false
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks in advance!
Investigated a bit further and found this HACS repo, which basically enables what Iâm after:
As you were and thanks again for this script - itâs great.
Thanks @bungamungus ⌠I know many (most?) people have customized their UIs, but oddly I never have. All my interactions with HA are automated (e.g. by events) or by physical hardware (e.g. Pico remotes), so I have no experience there.
Glad you found what you were looking for!
Would that be possible somehow to ungroup the speakers ( if they were left in group ) and play the announcement on a specific speaker only?
You could create a script to do a Media_player: unjoin then have the TTS script run. After the script rejoin the player to the group. It can get messy if you unjoin the master Iâve found so I donât use that any longer. There is a Sonos: Snapshot if you need to track where all the speakers were. I havenât found an easy way to exclude a speaker in my case.
Iâm creating a calendar automation that speaks the calendar events through a sonos speaker. I would need to pass this {{ trigger.calendar_event.summary }} as message to the Text-to-Speech on Sonos script.
When trying this, the Sonos speaks the words âobject objectâ instead of the value of the trigger.
Sorry if this was already discussed here or on the github page and I just completely missed it.
Note: When saving the automation and opening it again, I see the action is saved with this:
service: script.1676016944306
data:
entity_id: media_player.keuken
message:
"[object Object]": null
volume_level: 0.26
enabled: true
So thatâs probably the reason why it says âobject objectâ.
Anyone knows how to get this script say the contents of such variable?
Update. Ok, Looks like it might work like this:
message: "\"{{ trigger.calendar_event.summary }}\""
I have discovered a weird behavior when using this script with Groups integration. The issue may be related to an issue with that integration described here:
Media Player Group missing Attributes #85338
If I create a group of Sonos speakers using that integration and try an test this script in the Developer Tools it does not see the defined Group as an entity.
Using the Text-to-Speech service it does -
Here is the group defined using the integration -
Any idea on why it works with TTS but not the script?
The scriptâs entity_id field restricts the selection to media_players created by the Sonos integration.
You created the group of media_players, not the Sonos integration, so thatâs why itâs excluded from selection.
In contrast, the TTS service call makes no restrictions other than the entity must be a media_player, so thatâs why your grouped media_player is available for selection.
Hello @Talvish
First, thanks for this amazing blueprint
I wanted to share something iâve been adding to my script right before the tts_engine call :
- service: media_player.play_media
data:
media_content_id: "media-source://media_source/local/TGP - Janet Bing.mp3"
media_content_type: music
target:
entity_id: "{{ entity_group_leader }}"
- delay:
milliseconds: 800
with this sound : the good place janet sound effect - YouTube
itâs been working great, would be awesome to be an integrated feature if that inspires you
it could be even more generic and allow to call an external script (and passing entity_group_leader to it), for example to make a lamp blink.
EDIT: realizing a few hours later, that in case of external script, that it should be in a parallel alongside the tts_engine call.
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For some reason no matter the entity specified, any message I run through this script gets played on EVERY sonos device in my account.
hey!
ive no idea what ive done wrong here but i keep trying and reading the comments but i cant get this to work.
ive imported the blueprint and then when i go to âblueprintsâ and try to create the script, i keep getting âerror 500â
Same problem here. Error 500 when I try to create a script form the blueprint. Any advice? My automations.yaml file has ids set for each automation (which apparently need to be set in order to use blueprints)
Hey @Talvish: I have a strange behavior with playback resuming.
When I listen to a radio station resuming is working as expected.
But when I listen to Apple Music the script only resumes my spoken tts instead of resuming the playback.
So eg when someone rings I play âDing Dongâ and afterwards like an echo I hear it again (quieter because I raise the volume for TTS)
I even tested and confirmed it with Min. Wait, the time set is waited and afterwards the TTS sound is played again.
My setup is a group (of 2) symfonisk speakers.
Edit: When I do it on my own with a
-Sonos.snapshot
-stop music
-sonos.restore
it works as expected, even with Apple Music playing.
So I would guess it is a timing issue in script.
Edit2: Forget my edit. I tried it without tts in the middle.
The problem is in the tts, no matter if I use polly or google.
It looks like the playing of a different sound breaks the connection to Apple Servers which cannot be re-established on sonos.restore. But Iâm just guessing and I think I need to address my problem to the Sonos module.
Edit3: Sorry for so many edits. But just FYI, the problem is not Apple Music itself, it is Alexa. When she starts Apple Music for me, this cannot be restored (but only when there is a TTS as interrupt between snapshot and restore). Maybe it is some queue problem that the queue cannot be restored.
But I donât expect to find a fix for this problem
Hi,
great script but if I try to define two ore more playing entities the script did not work (speech is only choppy and not on all players). I think if there are more players the mus first grouped âŚ
But itâs very complex script and I do not get it. May be a new advanced version?
Steffen
I have scrolled trough the tread and found many posts about playing announcements on ONE (or selected speakers) only but no answers. Right now all grouped speakers play the announcement 
It would be great to be able to specify speakers to be used and the volume for each of them separately and let the other speakers in the group play what ever they were playing. I have my whole house grouped and would like to announce messages to specifik a speaker or group of speakers that after announcement return to the main group.
Best regards, L
Heads up: in the 2023.5 HA release the Sonos integration now supports the announce option on media_player.play_media service calls as described here. This will overlay the alert sound on top of any music currently playing (with an optional alert volume) and eliminate the need to snapshot/restore. TTS services will also use this feature automatically.
Itâs a brand new feature, so please let me know if any issues are encountered. I hope itâs useful!
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This is huge! Until now I was using the custom cloud integration for this. With the local Piper TTS and updated Sonos integration fully local TTS announcements are working. 
Any idea to handle tts volume?
If I use the new tts.say service on my Sonos media Player while listen music in background the tts message is very silent. It would be nice to play the message always in on defined volume on all players âŚ
Thanks, Steffen
service: media_player.play_media have an extra option for volume so I can play announces with my volume, but tts.say havenât so it is very silent. How the best way to handle this problem?