Comments on: Loudspeaker Network & Audio Alerts with Home Assistant

By: (zane) / Technically Wizardry

(zane) / Technically Wizardry — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:22:10 +0000

In reply to Tony.

There are many, many ways to pipe audio data into the speaker. I personally use Snapcast, which lets me turn all my dumb speakers into one giant “Sonos-like” (multi-rooom) sound system, as described in this post.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:01:29 +0000

Hi Zane,
I’m trying to stream radio music using Home Assistant. My speaker is plugged to my raspberry pi. The spotify plugin is working flawlessly and plays media directly on my speaker.
However I don’t have an “entity_id” for the speaker, so how can i output radio stream (or any mp3 audio really) onto my “non-smart” speaker?
Thanks!
— Tony

By: (zane) / Technically Wizardry

(zane) / Technically Wizardry — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:24:22 +0000

In reply to Dan.

Good point! I did see that; I didn’t think of using it for the interruption bit. The reason I did not use it was because each of my streams seem to have a slightly different latency for the speakers. This means that I actually save each speaker’s latency for each stream and have a script to restore them all when the stream switches. However, since interruptions go back to the same stream, it shouldn’t be a problem.

And thank you! It’s a labor of love.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:15:57 +0000

Home Assistant has a service snapcast.snapshot, which will snapshot the volume and strem of any specified snapcast media_players. Once the interruption is done being played, you can fire off snapcast.restore to resume. This may be a bit cleaner 🙂

Great site btw