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Feature: Publish as a media_player (device class speaker) #31

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@DeftNerd

I find myself using the TTS HASS feature (a nice one is available if you use the premium cloud service) to have text, often notifications, turned into audio that's sent to media players.

It would be stellar if the HASS.Agent could publish itself as a media player (in the "speaker" device class) so Home Assistant could send audio streams to the agent for playback using the Windows audio subsystem, as well as do a few other things available to "speaker" devices such as unmuting and controlling the volume.

This might be better suited for the HASS.Agent-Notifier repository as it would likely be used more as a notification option, but I could also see people wanting to use it to play music or something. Perhaps this could be spun off as another additional service like HASS.Agent-MediaPlayer

Similar ways to accomplish this:

Something that uses native Windows features would be preferred and would be one less thing to install.

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  1. LAB02-Admin commented on Feb 6, 2022

    @LAB02-Admin
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    Hi @DeftNerd, thanks for the (extensive) feature request. That does sound like a good idea, I currently use a pi for this purpose but one less device would be better.

    I'll put it on the list :)

    hassagent-2

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    on Feb 6, 2022
  3. Growiel commented on Feb 16, 2022

    @Growiel

    Hello,

    Just a quick post to say that I think this is the only missing feature and am glad you are taking on the request. I like text notifications but sometimes I'm focused on something else and miss them. Having them play as TTS as well would be neat.

  4. LAB02-Admin commented on Apr 29, 2022

    @LAB02-Admin
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