WTH can't I add the speaker on the local 3.5mm as a media player?

[JelleKoster]

I plugged my dumb speaker into the 3.5mm on the raspberry pi 4b running HA OS, but it’s not showing up in Home Assistant.
I’ve found quite a few threads with people banging their heads against this, a few stale addons like local VLC which by now have broken…
WTH can’t we do this?

[BebeMischa]

dont know about the Pi, but on my intel machine local VLC works fine.

[tom_l]

Closing as a duplicate of:

WTH why is the HASS host audio port (speaker, microphone) unexposed/cannot be used in HASS?

When looking at the hardware, HASS OS recognizes and assigns details to the sound subsystem (/dev/snd/). Why is the snd subsystem not exposed to HASS? ALSA has been part of the linux kernel since the late '90s. The library playsound, pyaudio, or simpleaudio are available since 2016, 2006, 2015 respectively (MIT license). There are others with different licensing. Both WAV and MP3 can be passed to the snd system, and audio written from them. Plug a 3.5mm-t-BT/BLE bridge into the port, and we …

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