Automation announcements keep repeating

[eternal moss]

Hi, need help with an issue. When I upgraded to 2025.4.0/2025.4.1, my automation announcements keep repeating once it got triggered.

I'm also experiencing this with homeassistant event notifications.

It seems that when an event (e.g. switch turned off or a scheduled announcement happens) Home Assistant keeps repeating the last event.

It's as if the last event wasn't being flagged as executed so the system keeps repeating it.

Is there something I can do to fix this?

[dreamy scroll]

is it that the automation is constantly being triggered causing spam or is the automation itself spamming?

are these announcements TTS? or push notifications? or something else? what is the actual output thats being spammed?

whatever the case you probably want to post the automation's yaml

[eternal moss]

Hi Michael,

The repetition/spamming happens whenever TTS messages are executed. I don't think the whole script/automation/code is re-executed.

What happens is that the newest TTS message is being repeated.

It could be an automation or a piece of code in an ESPHome node.

For example, I have an automation that runs in the morning to remind me of breakfast time when I'm doing something in the office. It sends a TTS announcement to an ESPHome node's media player in the office. When this happen, the announcement will get repeated until...

Another ESPHome node in the whole HA system needs to make a TTS message. When this happens, the previous TTS repetition will stop and the new TTS message will now get repeated.

This has never happened to me prior to 2025.4.0

[dreamy scroll]

could it be a similar issue to what happened in this thread #1357256908922421348?
was the way that voice stuff was implemented on the esphome device

[eternal moss]

I implement my media players as i2s_audio using Arduino framework on all my yaml's and never had any repeating issue prior to 2025.4... so I moved back to 2025.3.2 and the problem stopped happening.

For now I stopped upgrading my HAOS system.

Questions:

1. So, there's a known repeating TTS bug when 2025.4... was released?

2. Does that mean I have to use the esp-idf / speaker component combo to implement media player if I want to upgrade to 2025.4...?

I tried debugging the problem by turning on debug on the TTS add-on but I didn't see any additional detailed info in the logs.

From what I have gathered so far , it suggests that the problem lies on the code that TTS messages are processed.

Do you want me me test the esp-idf alternative?

[dreamy scroll]

yeah, I would suggest that you switch to esp-idf as it has helped others with the same issue. is there anything else within your config that cant be moved over to esp-idf?

[eternal moss]

I will try 'coz I have a lot of media players and I'm in the process of getting rid of my devices that require Internet to work.

The TTS bug is not going to be resolved anytime soon?

[dreamy scroll]

that is beyond the scope of what what I know. I think at the moment the concern is trying to work out what caused it. lots of stuff pushed updates at similar times and its probably some combination of them. there's HA/esphome/Arduino Framework

its effecting quite a few people. specially those with custom devices that have been in use for a while. so i suspect smarter people than me will investigate