#Notification Sounds playing on incorrect Media Players

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soft spear
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I have an automation to play a sound when a door sensor is opened (ALARM state on the MQTT sensor). The automation triggers fine, and the sound plays on the 3 media players I setup, but then it also plays on my brother's bedroom TV and the living room TV, which were not part of the script to play sounds on. I did it as a script to check if it was on, and if not to play a silent noise for .5 a second while muted, then unmute and play the sound (this is to eliminate the annoying google home wake sound). The TV media players are referenced NOWHERE in my script or automation... I cannot for the life of me figure out why they are playing on these devices.

limpid novaBOT
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@soft spear Sadly we're not mind readers (any more anyway, not after the last time we tried). Please share the YAML and any errors so we can see what you've done.

soft spear
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Automation YAML

alias: Doors
description: Play sound when a door is opened
trigger:
  - platform: mqtt
    topic: /security/sensors345/362624/alarm
    payload: ALARM
  - platform: mqtt
    topic: /security/sensors345/933953/alarm
    payload: ALARM
  - platform: mqtt
    topic: /security/sensors345/269021/alarm
    payload: ALARM
condition: []
action:
  - service: script.play_on_all
    data:
      sound: LOZ_Secret.wav
mode: single
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Play on all script

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alias: Play on All
description: Play the door chime to all speakers
icon: mdi:music-note
mode: queued
fields:
  sound:
    default: voy_door_chime_2.mp3
    description: Name of media file to play
    required: true
sequence:
  - parallel:
      - service: script.play_sound
        data:
          sound: "{{ sound }}"
          device: media_player.tom_s_google_mini
      - service: script.play_sound
        data:
          sound: "{{ sound }}"
          device: media_player.andy_clock
      - service: script.play_sound
        data:
          sound: "{{ sound }}"
          device: media_player.kitchen_speaker
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play sound script

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alias: Play Sound
description: Send a sound to all Speakers without the annoying streaming sound
icon: mdi:music-note
fields:
  sound:
    description: The filename to play (relative to the local /media folder)
    example: voy_door_chime_2.mp3
    required: true
  device:
    description: Entity Id of device
    example: media_player.tom_s_google_mini
    required: true
mode: queued
sequence:
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ (is_state(device, 'off')) }}"
    then:
      - alias: Mute Speaker to wake up silently
        service: media_player.volume_mute
        target:
          entity_id: "{{ device }}"
        data:
          is_volume_muted: true
      - alias: Send silence sound
        service: media_player.play_media
        target:
          entity_id: "{{device}}"
        data:
          media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/silence.mp3
          media_content_type: audio/mpeg
      - alias: Wait for annoying chime
        delay:
          milliseconds: 800
      - alias: Unmute
        service: media_player.volume_mute
        target:
          entity_id: "{{device}}"
        data:
          is_volume_muted: false
  - alias: Play Sound
    service: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: "{{device}}"
    data:
      media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/{{ sound }}
      media_content_type: music
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I even disabled the media_player.master-bedroom-tv entity, but it still plays on that TV whenever a door opens

fathom night
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Heh. Trace scripts, what could i say... Looks like your "play sound" is still getting called with tv entity...

soft spear
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Except it's not