Use Bluetooth devices with the Bluetooth device tracker

[broken.pipe]

Hi all,
i set up the bluetooth device tracker in my configuration.yaml and I find several devices, including my bluetooth speaker (entity: device_tracker.bluetooth-speaker). How can I use this speaker now? E.g. send music or TTS over it?

known_devices.yaml

bluetooth-speaker:
  icon:
  mac: BT_BC:30:7D:8C:D3:7A
  name: Bluetooth Speaker
  picture:
  track: true

Thanks and best regards!

[Tinkerer (aka DubhAd on GitHub)]

You can’t

The device_tracker integration is just for tracking devices - telling if they’re on/nearby or not.

[razor620]

Is there other way to use bluetooth component ?

i would like to use bluetooth speaker for each sound of HA like music, TTS, alarm siren and so on.

[Tinkerer (aka DubhAd on GitHub)]

Sure, create a custom component that handles that.

[razor620]

any clue how to do that ? i’m relatively new on HA and with HassOS installation we are rather limited on system actions/commands.

[Hellis81]

If you know how to solder then you can use the DFplayer mp3 player with an ESP chip.
Have the output from the DFplayer go to a Bluetooth transmitter.

That should in theory work.

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[razor620]

not very simple…especially that the raspberry pi have already the Bluetooth but it’s seem impossible to exploit that…