Redirect timer sound to external speaker.

[chilly urchin]

I have an Atom Echo that still works pretty well. It is usefull only because I direct all audio to an external speaker using VLC. The one exception is the sound of the timer going off. It is still on the echo and not loud enough to be useful. Is there a way to also direct that sound to the external speaker?

[gray coyote]

You can expose "timer_ringing" binary sensor in YAML, and then use it to trigger automation in HA.

[chilly urchin]

Thank you for your reply. Can you direct me to some documentation or examples on how to correctly add this to the yaml?

[gray coyote]

If you changed YAML to redirect answers, then you have full YAML in ESPHome, right? I mean, taken control over device.
I'm unfamiliar with Atom YAML, but in PE there's https://github.com/esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe/blob/dev/home-assistant-voice.yaml#L195 this switch. Find same in your YAML, remove "internal: true", and re-flash.

[chilly urchin]

I dont have that line in the switch area. Here i what I have:

switch:
  - platform: template
    name: Use listen light
    id: use_listen_light
    optimistic: true
    restore_mode: RESTORE_DEFAULT_ON
    entity_category: config
    on_turn_on:
      - script.execute: reset_led
    on_turn_off:
      - script.execute: reset_led
  - platform: template
    id: timer_ringing
    optimistic: true
    restore_mode: ALWAYS_OFF
    on_turn_off:
      # Turn off the repeat mode and disable the pause between playlist items
      - lambda: |-
              id(echo_media_player)
                ->make_call()
                .set_command(media_player::MediaPlayerCommand::MEDIA_PLAYER_COMMAND_REPEAT_OFF)
                .set_announcement(true)
                .perform();
              id(echo_media_player)->set_playlist_delay_ms(speaker::AudioPipelineType::ANNOUNCEMENT, 0);
      # Stop playing the alarm
      - media_player.stop:
          announcement: true
    on_turn_on:
      # Turn on the repeat mode and pause for 1000 ms between playlist items/repeats
      - lambda: |-
            id(echo_media_player)
              ->make_call()
              .set_command(media_player::MediaPlayerCommand::MEDIA_PLAYER_COMMAND_REPEAT_ONE)
              .set_announcement(true)
              .perform();
            id(echo_media_player)->set_playlist_delay_ms(speaker::AudioPipelineType::ANNOUNCEMENT, 1000);
      - media_player.speaker.play_on_device_media_file:
          media_file: timer_finished_wave_file
          announcement: true
      - delay: 15min
      - switch.turn_off: timer_ringing

To make the tts sound through the external speaker I added this after on_tts_start

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

[gray coyote]

Then you should already have timer_ringing switch in HA. If not, try adding name to that switch in YAML and re-flash.