Use Airplay speakers for TTS in Home Assistant?

Third party integrations
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Hello!

Is it possible to use Airplay speakers (Airport Express with external speaker attached) or an Airplay enabled Sonsos speaker as TTS device from Home Assistant?
I have a HassOS installation on a Raspberry Pi 4B.

Thanks for answers!

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I installed Forked-Daap and with the integration in Home Assistant I was able to use TTS through it to broadcast it to my AirPlay enabled receiver.

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Ok. I will try if I can find something about forked-daap. Thank you!

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This seems to be installing forked-daapd not on the Home Assistant Pi, correct?

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Correct… just wanted to show you the potential. It is a great product. I used a docker container version and did install it side by side on my Home Assistant server.

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Also readup on this thread: Forked-daapd and media player services some extra info in ref to forked-daap integration in HA. Notice the default VOLUME setting in the integration and TTS has a slight delay.

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I used this container by the way https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-daapd

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Thanks for taking the time. I’m working on this for the next few days… slowly.

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Asking OP, what did you end up doing for aiplay speakers. i have boston acoustics mc200air which goes to sleep on DLNA but can only be woken up using airplay. So i want to use airplay mode on the speaker instead of DLNA