Newby, MUSELUXE HomeAssistant MediaPlayer

ESPMUSE
#1

My Muse Luxe has been working great as a voice assistant in my HomeAssistant setup at home, and it even speaks after it turns on the lights I asked it to do, so I know the speaker works, and TTS from HASS works.

However I also want it to be used as a speaker/MediaPlayer to speak text-to-speech programmed with certain actions via automations, such as telling me the alarm is on, after I armed it, etc. I have watched the video by Kiriil on YouTube where he sets up his to so exactly that. I have followed his steps, but when I try to “run” the action there is no sound coming out from the MuseLuxe.

Likely, there is something dumb I am missing, but can’t figure out what it is. When setting up the automation, the MuseLuxe does come up as a media.player, and I pick it. Any ideas on what I may be missing to set up in HASS ? Or is there something I need to do on the MuseLuxe YAML file ?

I am using the YAML file for HomeAssistant that is on the RaspiAudio website, not the one on ESPHome.

MUSE Luxe hardware hack for voice-assist + automation notifications
#2

Hi…I had the same issue…but found out it’s down to the audio format that you are trying to play…

#3

Thank you for the comment ! However, I was not trying to play any specific format, just setting up an automation that would play a TTS notification when a trigger was met. Just as presented in the YT video referenced above.

I have since found that apparently due to the way ESPHome currently works, the MUSE Luxe cannot do both, voice-assistant, and be a media.player speaker (as per the YT video above). Each adaptation needs a different yaml file.