MA play_announcement Action

NOTE

This action is used from Home Assistant scripts and automations and requires the Home Assistant integration. See Home Assistant scripts and automations for examples.

This action allows you to send audio announcements via a URL to a player. The URL could be accessed in a variety of ways. For example:

• External such as https://www.soundjay.com/door/doorbell-5.mp3
• Using Home Assistant you can add the sound files under your www folder and access them like this http://192.168.1.165:8123/local/audio/Apartment-door-chime-melody.mp3
• You could run your own webserver

NOTE

For sending text messages use the HA TTS service calls and target the MA media player entity. There are a number of options available to control the volume of announcements in the MA settings for each player.

service: tts.google_say
  data:
    entity_id: media_player.ma_kitchen_speaker
    message: This is a test