ESP + Microphone to control HA Assist with external Speaker. Problem with define the voice | Home Assistant | Page 1

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 8:06 PM

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hi guyes i add an esp with microphone to talk to HA Assistant. And the output from the Assistant is send over integrated media.player speaker. In my Case i am using Alexa echo dot for the voice answers from HA Assist.

My problem is that alexa is using her own voice. I want to give the output with the voices from HA. In HA i tested the code in the services section. And it working without problems. But when i add the Code in the ESP then i get an Error Message.
This is the code which worked in services
http://youre-ip-adress:8123/developer-tools/service

service: tts.cloud_say
data:
  cache: false
  entity_id: media_player.echo_wohnzimmer
  message: >-
    Hello this code here is working
  language: de-DE
  options:
    voice: ChristophNeural

or this code works too

service: tts.speak
data:
  media_player_entity_id: media_player.echo_wohnzimmer
  message: Dies ist eine Testnachricht
  entity_id: tts.home_assistant_cloud
  language: de-DE
  options:
    voice: MajaNeural

but when i use this code in the ESPHome then i get an error message by installing.

homeassistant.service: 
      service: tts.cloud_say
      data:

Must be string, got <class 'esphome.helpers.OrderedDict'>. did you forget putting quotes around the value?.

options: 
          voice: ChristophNeural
        entity_id: media_player.echo_wohnzimmer
        message: !lambda 'return x;'

i think ESP want here a different code format but i have no idea how…
can someone help please?

what mean this?
Must be string, got <class ‘esphome.helpers.OrderedDict’>. did you forget putting quotes around the value?.

if i use the code like this in ESPHome, then it works but alexa is speaking with her own voice. Not the Voice from HA-Assist.

on_tts_start: 
    - homeassistant.service: 
        service: tts.cloud_say
        data: 
          entity_id: media_player.echo_wohnzimmer
          message: !lambda 'return x;'

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 8:25 PM

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did you try using media player media,play just to see if it worked?

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 8:29 PM

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spare lance did you try using media player media,play just to see if it worked?

Where I Must put this in ?

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 8:33 PM

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on_tts_end:
    - homeassistant.service:
        service: media_player.play_media
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.echo_wohnzimmer
          media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
          media_content_type: music
          announce: "true"

in place of what you have been trying

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 8:41 PM

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INFO ESPHome 2024.2.1
INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/voice-assist-mic.yaml...
ERROR Error while reading config: Invalid YAML syntax:

mapping values are not allowed here
in "/config/esphome/voice-assist-mic.yaml", line 92, column 13

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 8:42 PM

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check your indentation

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 8:44 PM

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ah okay. i flash the esp one moment

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it was able to flash the esp without an error. but the alexa is saying nothin

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in debugging i can see that the wakeword was detection

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tts_output:
media_id: >-
media-source://tts/tts.home_assistant_cloud?message=Mir+geht+es+gut,+vielen+Dank+der+Nachfrage.+Wie+kann+ich+Ihnen+helfen?&language=de-DE&voice=MajaNeural&preferred_format=mp3
url: >-
/api/tts_proxy/495ee654447740750b1455cfc192b432647fc868_de-de_e3cbd5c222_tts.home_assistant_cloud.mp3
mime_type: audio/mpeg

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this i can see in debugging raw.

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 8:50 PM

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ok just check in the ESPHome integration that the device can make service calls. Next to the device in the list click 'configure' make sure that the box is ticked.

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 8:51 PM

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yes it allowed to do that

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 8:52 PM

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ok ... we need an alexa expert! sorry it didn't work.. hopefully someone will be able to come up with other ideas

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 8:54 PM

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spare lance ok ... we need an alexa expert! sorry it didn't work.. hopefully someone will be...

thank you for your help and your effort

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 8:55 PM

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you're welcome

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 8:56 PM

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need an ESP Expert. because the code for alexa in HA i know. This code worked in the automations too. Only the ESP dont wont this code

service: tts.speak
data:
  media_player_entity_id: media_player.echo_wohnzimmer
  message: Dies ist eine Testnachricht
  entity_id: tts.home_assistant_cloud
  language: de-DE
  options:
    voice: MajaNeural

or this,

service: tts.cloud_say
data:
  cache: false
  entity_id: media_player.echo_wohnzimmer
  message: >-
    Hello this code here is working
  language: de-DE
  options:
    voice: ChristophNeural

both is working in automations

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 9:24 PM

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here on this page from ESP i think is the solution. but i cant find it. there is written:

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https://esphome.io/components/api.html#homeassistant-service-action

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Data structures are not possible, but you can create a script in Home Assistant and call with all the parameters in plain format.

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 10:30 PM

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spare lance you're welcome

i have it 🙂

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 10:30 PM

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what was the solution ?

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 10:31 PM

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you must use a script as template for the option structure

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i made now a script in HA

alias: ha_voice_alexa
sequence:
  - service: tts.speak
    data_template:
      media_player_entity_id: '{{ media_player_id }}'
      entity_id: '{{ tts_id }}'
      language: '{{ lang }}'
      options:
        voice: '{{ voice_agent }}'
      message: '{{ messagecall }}'
mode: single

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 10:32 PM

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a so in HA and not on the ESP

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 10:32 PM

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and this on esphome

  on_tts_start: 
    - homeassistant.service: 
        service: script.ha_voice_alexa
        data: 
          media_player_id: 'media_player.echo_wohnzimmer'
          tts_id: 'tts.home_assistant_cloud'
          lang: 'de-DE'
          voice_agent: 'MajaNeural'
          messagecall: !lambda 'return x;'

spare lance Feb 27, 2024, 10:33 PM

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very good! I shall try to remember that for future. glad you are up and running! 👍

terse zodiac Feb 27, 2024, 10:34 PM

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terse zodiac https://esphome.io/components/api.html#homeassistant-service-action

like i said.... here is the solution. just understand it

mellow marsh Feb 28, 2024, 5:24 PM

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how would I change this for english and default voice for alexa? Trying to make this work for my atom echos to respond with my alexa echos.

spare lance Feb 28, 2024, 5:40 PM

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can you paste the code that you are trying @mellow marsh

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and the errror

mellow marsh Feb 28, 2024, 5:40 PM

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- homeassistant.service: service: media_player.play_media data: entity_id: media_player.kitchen media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;' media_content_type: music announce: "true"

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not a error it was what the alexa was responding with. The alexa would say "to send tts set public url in integration configuration"

spare lance Feb 28, 2024, 5:42 PM

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do you have a nabu casa subscription ?

mellow marsh Feb 28, 2024, 5:43 PM

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and I would go into the alexa media player integration and set the url to my Nabu Casa url(this would just cause everything to stop working 100% so I deleted the intergation and set it back up) or my address "http://192.168.1.36:8123" and then the command would work but alexa would say nothing.

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Yes paid for a year.

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https://dixcqd6dbcrbsbrguw3ifxquxsvn9d.ui.nabu.casa/ (i took out a random character to be safe lol) is what I put in the config section of that integration.

spare lance Feb 28, 2024, 5:46 PM

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try the following

  on_tts_end:
    - homeassistant.service: 
        service: tts.cloud_say
        data: 
          entity_id: media_player.kitchen
          message: !lambda 'return x;'

mellow marsh Feb 28, 2024, 5:46 PM

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will do it will take a few to recompile.

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preparation failed: see what went wrong.... Give this a few mins to see what is wrong.

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that is odd it went through. Now uploading the new bin

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ok now it says having trouble accessing simon says na skill.......

spare lance Feb 28, 2024, 6:02 PM

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i have no idea with regards to alexa configuration. is that something you need to setup in the alexa platform

mellow marsh Feb 28, 2024, 6:07 PM

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Yea this from more searching seems to be something that others are running into also. I may just try to change the message and see if I can get it to just respond with something like "done" or what every lol

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I assume I would just have to change:
message: !lambda 'return x;'
to
message: "Done"

spare lance Feb 28, 2024, 6:32 PM

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mellow marsh I assume I would just have to change: ` message: !lambda 'return x;' ` to ` mes...

yes that should do it , if you view the esphome logs you should see whats happening as it's happening

mellow marsh Feb 28, 2024, 6:40 PM

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I tried it and got a message from alexa saying something about "simon says NA" lol

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