#Play media on assist device the request came from

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empty merlin
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Hello,

I have an ESP32-Box3-S3 successfully integrated into Home Assistant.
I have created an automation with the sentence "Play Radio Teddy in Bedroom" which works well, too.
What I would like to achieve, though, is to be able to just say "Play Radio Teddy" and HA would play the radio station on the device the request was made from. Is there a condition or anything that can let me achieve this?

fading sedge
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not sure if this would work 🙂 but you could use the "on" state of the binary sensor assist in progress as a condition in the automation to then play the audio on that device (if that makes sense) not infront of PC ATM to look at how to structure it. but that should in theory work

empty merlin
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Hmm, that's an idea. might create a race condition if two devices are in use at the same time, but I think it's close enough. Thank you! (ALso for the documentation and work on getting the Box3 integrated! <3 )

fading sedge
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you're welcome 👍 drop a message back in here if you need further help with it

shrewd moat
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@empty merlin You may be interested in my project View Assist. It will do exactly what you are requesting if I am understanding you correctly.

Here's the wiki:
https://dinki.github.io/View-Assist/

and particularly you'd want to look at this once you have things configured:
https://dinki.github.io/View-Assist/docs/extend-functionality/sentences/play-tunein-with-ma

My assumption is that you are playing this through Music Assistant but it should be adaptable for any streaming source with little work.

empty merlin
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