This is a handy script for sending text-to-speech to multiple google speakers (i.e. home, or mini, or whatever else they decide to call them next). It took me longer to figure this out than I expected so I’m putting it here for anyone else. My only “issue” is that the first time you send a text the…

The chime is played when Home Assistant starts casting to the speaker, sending another TTS while it’s still casting (speaker state is not idle) will not trigger the chime again.

Why not create a group in Google Home that includes all Google assistants and call it a day?

Good question. At one time I tried sending to a group of speakers and it didn’t work. That might no longer be the case. However the real reason I don’t use a group is because I use this script in various circumstances which allows me to simply uncomment whichever speakers are appropriate. Otherwise…

I just sent a TTS that lasted about 2 seconds. It’s been several minutes and the speaker remains in an idle state. I’m not sure when it will time out. If I were dead-set on silencing the chime, I might be able to figure out the timeout then set up an automation to send silent commands before each t…

[image] fire_extinguisher TTS Script Blueprint for All 11 HA Core TTS Flavors Blueprints Exchange mega This is a script that can use any of 11 integrated TTS Platforms Plus Piper via Wyoming Integration in Home Assistant to send a message to a media player. Som…

TTS simultaneous speech to multiple Google speakers

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