Multiple Voice PE External Speaker

[strange chasm]

I have a voice pe and a box s3. The box has become really unreliable as of late and i'm thinking of getting an additional PE. Currently I'm using this automation to have the other pe broadcast the tts to an external speaker but i dont see a way in this if there is more then one pe. Does anyone have a solution?

alias: Play On External Speakers
description: ""
triggers:

• trigger: event
  event_type: esphome.tts_ended
  conditions: []
  actions:
• action: media_player.play_media
  target:
  entity_id: media_player.foyer_speaker
  data:
  media_content_id: "{{ trigger.event.data.url }}"
  media_content_type: music
  announce: false
  mode: queued
  max: 10

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[strange chasm]

I should add some context. I have certain automations after a certain time play to different speakers. After hours i have been using the box s3 for the bedroom to play on that speaker. I wish to put another voice pe in there instead

[spare cipher]

You can use device_id from event to see which device fired the event, and base the logic on that.
Check the blueprint i have for Respeaker, you may use that, just change the event: https://github.com/formatBCE/Respeaker-Lite-ESPHome-integration/blob/main/readme/tts_uri.md

[strange chasm]

I tried that but it doesn't even fire the automation. As if the device id isn't being looked at

`alias: VoicePE-External Speaker
description: ""
triggers:

• trigger: event
  event_type: esphome.tts_uri
  event_data:
  device_id: e34cf6c05909e92af237fdd48862fa20
  conditions: []
  actions:
• action: media_player.play_media
  target:
  entity_id: media_player.foyer_speaker
  data:
  media_content_id: "{{ trigger.event.data.uri }}"
  media_content_type: music
  announce: false
  mode: queued
  max: 10`

[spare cipher]

Are you sure you changed VPE firmware to send the event?

[strange chasm]

never touched the firmware lol

is there a link on your git for that?

[strange chasm]

is it this on_tts_end: - script.execute: id: send_tts_uri_event tts_uri: !lambda 'return x;'

i'm using default config for voice pe and trying to add certain aspects to the yaml

[spare cipher]

Yeah, this one. Koala/Respeaker has it, because i've added that.

[strange chasm]

What would be the best way to add this to the voice pe? would i have to copy over your entire config?

[spare cipher]

Oh no, don't do that. The hardware is different, so it will brick your device.

You may use their YAML first.

https://github.com/esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe/blob/dev/home-assistant-voice.yaml

And then make corresponding changes.

[strange chasm]

so just to make sure, i copied over the default config. To get this working then all i would do is add

• script.execute:
  id: send_tts_uri_event
  tts_uri: !lambda 'return x;' at the on_tts_end: section?

[spare cipher]

You also want to copy the script itself

search send_tts_uri_event in code

[strange chasm]

in your code correct

[spare cipher]

Yes

It exists only in my code

[strange chasm]

i've got that, where would i put this in the default?

in the scripts section?