With this blueprint, you are able to send a TTS greeting using tts.say_google service to any media_player with the name of the person that arrived in less than the configured minutes.
It also allows you to set a condition to run it and it can also do other actions after the execution.
Thanks for any feedback, that is my first blueprint.
If I want to play a message for only one person, I donât know how to set it up. You cannot save without the second message.
If there is only one person will it work?
I have no idea how to fulfill the condition. If I leave true is it good?
You can provide a pattern setting. I wanted to test but it doesnât work
Thank you very much
Thanks for this.
Would be good to be able to select a motion sensor instead of a door sensor 
If you have only one person, you can put the same messages in both boxes. The blueprint will use the single-person message if there is only one person arriving.
You can leave as True without any issue. That can be used to check whenever you wish the message to be played. Lets think if you wish to play only when your player is in idle state. You can use something like:
{{ is_state('mediaplayer.mymedia','idle') }}
Good, Iâll update it for motion sensor as well.
@jackpea Iâm unable to set multiple classes for a binary_input. A workaround is change the class from door to motion at the blueprint.
It will be something like this:
blueprint:
name: TTS on door opening with persons at home
description: Sends TTS message to a media_player when door is oppened with the person
at home
domain: automation
input:
door_sensor:
name: Door sensor
selector:
entity:
domain: binary_sensor
device_class: motion
persons:
name: Persons
selector:
entity:
domain: person
minutes:
name: Minutes
description: Minutes between person at home and door trigged
default: 5
selector:
number:
min: 1.0
max: 30.0
step: 1.0
unit_of_measurement: min
mode: slider
message-single:
name: Message single person
description: 'Message to salute single person. One possible message per line.
Use <person> tag to be replaced by person name.
'
selector:
text:
multiline: true
message-multiple:
name: Message multiple persons
description: 'Message multiple persons. One possible message per line. Use <persons>
tag to be replaced by person name.
'
selector:
text:
multiline: true
persons-concat:
name: Text to concatenate the persons name
description: String to be used as concatenate between names
default: ' and '
selector:
text:
multiline: false
target:
name: Target devices
description: Target devices to play the TTS message
selector:
entity:
domain: media_player
condition:
name: Condition to run
description: 'Add a value_template value for major condition to execute the automation'
default: 'True'
selector:
text:
actions:
name: Additional actions
description: 'After the execution of the automation, run those actions.'
default: []
selector:
action: {}
source_url: https://gist.github.com/rokam/22fd6e497fbe61478fda4d0fc8215abf
variables:
persons_str: !input 'persons'
persons_list: '{{ persons_str.split('','') | map(''trim'') | list }}'
timeout: !input 'minutes'
concat_str: !input 'persons-concat'
addactions: !input actions
persons_count: "{%- set first = true -%} {%- set data = namespace(nomes=[]) -%}\
\ {%- for person in persons_list -%}\n {%- if is_state(person, 'home') and (now()\
\ - states[person].last_changed).total_seconds() < timeout*60 -%}\n {%- set\
\ data.nomes = data.nomes + [states[person].name] -%}\n {%- endif -%}\n{%- endfor\
\ -%} {{ data.nomes }}\n"
persons_names: '{%- set finalstr = '', ''.join(persons_count) -%} {{ concat_str.join(finalstr.rsplit('',
'',1)) }}
'
single_msg: !input 'message-single'
multiple_msg: !input 'message-multiple'
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: !input 'door_sensor'
to: 'on'
action:
- condition: template
value_template: !input 'condition'
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ persons_count|length > 0 }}"
- service: tts.google_say
data:
entity_id: !input 'target'
message: "{%- set single_lst = single_msg.split('\\n') -%}\n{%- set multiple_lst\
\ = multiple_msg.split('\\n') -%}\n{%- if persons_count|length > 1 -%}\n {{\
\ multiple_lst | random | replace('<persons>', persons_names) }}\n{%- elif persons_count|length > 0 -%}\n\
\ {{ single_lst | random | replace('<person>', persons_names) }}\n{%- endif\
\ -%}\n"
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ addactions|length > 0 }}"
- choose: []
default: !input 'actions'
mode: single
If I run the automation manually I see that it makes a check on number of persons and it doesnât continue. Is this expected?
Thanks for this template
@danielo515 if there is no one that have arrived home in less then 5 minutes (or other value that youâve set), there wonât be anyone to greet and the script ends.
Just tried the script with me actually coming and it just didnât work. Maybe it conflicted with another script that I have that does exactly the same (but doesnât wait for the door open event). Iâll try to deactivate it and see if yours work.
Look at the automation trace. Look what happened at the execution.
Seems that people count is always 0. Why can be that ? Iâm using the phone integration and it works quite reliably
Can you share your blueprint config?
Dear rokam,
If I donât misunderstand there is the possibility to add multiple person names to the relative entry but I donât know how to do it. Can you explain how I can do this ?
Would be awesome if you can select the TTS service. tts.google_say or tts.cloud_say for example.
I adjusted the blueprint for myself since I use tts.cloud_say but I think it should not be to difficult to change the blueprint to select the different options.
Thank you @rokam. I defined person like you suggested but now I have another problem because every time the automation triggers I see this message on the log
Sorry, text to speech can only be called with the notify.alexa_media service. Please see the alexa_media wiki for details.https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki/Configuration%3A-Notification-Component#use-the-notifyalexa_media-service
Can you help me ?
The Alexa media player does not allow TTS. This is a limitation of Alexa.
However, it should be possible to make a similar make a blueprint with the option to select the various ânotify.alexa_media_(suchandsuch)â to accomplish the same.
I think it would be too complicated to add that in this blueprint, but who knows what @rokam is willing and able to do.
I was going to say the same.
But I donât understand why you think it may be difficult?
This is what it is required for alexa:
action:
- service: notify.alexa_media
data:
message: Bienvenido de nuevo a casa
target:
- media_player.echo_1
And this is what this blueprint does:
- service: tts.google_say
data:
entity_id: media_player.echo_1
message: 'the message logic'
Quite similar, so i donât see why it can not be templated
âtoo complicatedâ doesnât mean difficult. I for one wouldnât go through the effort since I donât have any Alexaâs. Plus itâs easier to just make a separate blueprint Alexa-based. But as I said: âbut who knows what @rokam is willing and able to do.â
Okay, Love this blueprint, so if I add {{ is_state(âbinary_sensor.quiet_timeâ,âoffâ) }}to the condition line where the yes is then will it only trigger when it is not quiet time?