Text-to-speech endlessly buffering

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Hi,

Since the upgrade to 2024.08 I’m having issues with TTS.
I use TTS actions for some automations where I send messages to my Google Home Mini. Since the last update however, I get the sound from the speaker that it’s received the TTS command, but it then keeps buffering without saying the message.

I’ve tried Piper (my default) and Google Translate text-to-speech, but both have the same result.
Rebooting the speaker hasn’t helper either.

If you’ve encountered this before or if you have any input, I’m open for feedback.

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Hi AntonH,

I’m guessing, but it sounds like an external_url problem where Google is not getting the text file to use. I could be wrong but I personally would start there.

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So I think I identified the issue:
I had an SSL configuration setup from an old DuckDNS setup.

http:
  ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
  ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem

Google home doesn’t like it when these setting are present in the http part of configuration.yaml.

Currently I’m using Cloudflare tunnels to access HA from the outside, so I removed the SSL config from configuration.yaml as Cloudflare should handle the SSL cert itself.
The issue is now that that doesn’t seem to work. I get a bad gateway error when navigating to my HA domain.

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Ok, this is solved. There was a bad config in my Cloudflared add-on.
Everything is now externally reachable through the url and there is no SSL configuration in the http: section of configuration.yaml, but Google Home keeps buffering.