Turn an ESP8266 WemosD1Mini into an audio notifier for Home Assistant: Play MP3, TTS & RTTL

tom_l · July 18, 2020, 10:02pm

WTFAYBOA?

I said the video was well produced.

Dave_B · July 19, 2020, 7:26am

Exactly, if you’re not interested, don’t watch, and go to the links instead. Simple. No need to whine about it.

nickrout · July 19, 2020, 9:13am

The problem you have to go to youtube to get the links. That is the part I object to.

MrDIY · July 19, 2020, 6:20pm

**UPDATE **

I added suport for a custom MQTT topic in the setup portal - check my gitlab page for source code.

truglodite · July 19, 2020, 6:47pm

Thanks for sharing @MrDIY!

I already have several dfplayer/esphome devices in use… this would have been a neat alternative had it come out sooner, lol. It is cool being able to update mp3 files from HA, unlike dfplayer (yeah I suppose one could config to transfer files from HA to the df sd, but meh). What kind of latency are ppl typically getting?

Lol, regarding the video I haven’t even started clicking anything yet, but there are a lot of ways to force a click here/there for ad revenue. Not saying that is what is going on here, but that sort of thing is generally frowned upon by the open source community. That is all I have to say about that.

XCray · July 20, 2020, 2:29am

Very Interesting!
Thanks for your wonderful code.
I flashed the firmware into a tiny ESP-01S module and play mp3&tts successfully!

The relay module is not related, I just use the power source~

Thanks again!

klogg · July 20, 2020, 3:39pm

Any chance of uploading a new bin file with this change in it?

MrDIY · July 25, 2020, 3:40am

Yes, I uploaded a bin file version that allows you to define the custom MQTT topic in the setup portal.

Here is the link to download it:

https://gitlab.com/MrDIYca/mrdiy-audio-notifier/-/raw/master/MrDIY_notifier_custom_MQTT.bin?inline=false

Cao_Hoa · July 30, 2020, 3:33pm

Can you share your configuration?

MrDIY · August 2, 2020, 9:55pm

Hi Cao_Hoa, what configuration are you refering to?

Cao_Hoa · August 3, 2020, 2:59am

hello MrDIY
Your configuration file
This is my configuration
Sensor:

platform: mqtt
state_topic: “mrdiynotifier / status”
name: “Player-local”

Cao_Hoa · September 16, 2020, 4:45pm

you give me your configuration please

MrDIY · September 16, 2020, 9:32pm

Hi, I don’t have a configuration. I used the automation to send the audio directly using MQTT. You can see my example at https://youtu.be/SPa9SMyPU58?t=250

MrDIY · September 16, 2020, 9:39pm

If you are looking to configure an MQTT mediaplayer, then I don’t think that is supported by the curent HA version - maybe someone can correct me here.

If you just want to have a status sensor then you can use this:

sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "/mrdiynotifier/status"
    name: "MrDIY Player"

nickrout · September 16, 2020, 9:42pm

Someone just added a custom component for a mqtt media player. Media Player as MQTT

Cao_Hoa · September 17, 2020, 3:55pm

ok thanks
I will try to flash it again

blademckain · September 19, 2020, 8:45am

nice project!!
any possibility to integrate it within esphome?

stackner · September 28, 2020, 8:17am

i have made 3 of these. they work perfectly however when nothing is playing i tent to get some crackle/clicking sounds through my speakers. anyone else get this and if so any ideas on a fix?

sender · September 28, 2020, 12:42pm

I have that as well… the author has said to look into this…

stackner · September 28, 2020, 8:55pm

do you mean the author is going to look into it?