New plugin pimatic-sounds

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Thanks, can you add debug info till ( including) the moment of the error

error [pimatic]: rule tts-googlehome-wohnzimmer error executing an action: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined

At the end there was nothing more then I posted. Here my next try with activated error logging:

20:49:03debug [pimatic-sounds]: Error in playAnnouncement: undefined
20:49:03debug [pimatic-sounds]: Error startReplaying Error: Load failed
20:49:03debug [pimatic-sounds]: Error load replay Error: Load failed
20:49:02debug [pimatic-sounds]: Setvolume data: {
  "level": 0.1818181872367859
}
20:49:02debug [pimatic-sounds]: Setting volume to  0.1818181872367859
20:48:59debug [pimatic-sounds]: Casting stopped
20:48:57debug [pimatic-sounds]: Playing announcement on device 'google-home-wohnzimmer' with volume 20
20:48:55debug [pimatic-sounds]: Setvolume data: {
  "level": 0.2
}
20:48:55debug [pimatic-sounds]: Setting volume to  0.2
20:48:55error [pimatic]: rule tts-googlehome-wohnzimmer error executing an action: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined
20:48:55debug [pimatic-sounds]: Sound generated, now casting http://192.168.0.100:8089/google-home-wohnzimmer_text.mp3
20:48:55debug [pimatic-sounds]: Error: null
20:48:55debug [pimatic-sounds]: Creating sound file... with text: bla

No more things happens during before, while and after the announcement.

Thnx, and what was streamed before the announcement? (TuneIn or …)

Nothing. The speaker was not in use. I did just the test.

Ok i will try to reproduce and repair the error

I couldn’t reproduce the error, but i added some extra error handling in version 0.1.6.

Sorry for my late response. I made the update. After the last restart the error did not occure anymore. Maybe pimatic itself was the reason and the restart did the job. I will further observe if it will come back somehow.

Hi, I like to ask if you could supress the initial “blupp” which is played before every main volume change somehow?

I checked on my system but it can’t detect a ‘blupp’ with a 'play main vol xx on …'
Do you have a sound sample or the specific use case?

It is the same “blupp” which you can hear when you change the volume manually on the GH device. Each click results in a “blupp” for me.

Ok, i found the blupp. It seems part of the ui of the device. I found no setting to switch it off and muting doesn’t help if you are setting the volume

When using the GoogleDevice of the sounds plugin you can use rules to send text commands like you are using when talking to an assistant device.
This way you can control a device added in google home but not known in Pimatic.
This feature is part of the assistant-relay solution i’m using in the GoogleDevice.

I was wondering, although the plugin is called pimatic sounds, is there a way to send an image to a Google hub?
Would be a nice addition for my doorbell (that’s creating a static image that is shown in pimatic) to show the image also on the hub.

Hi, did you try to send the image?

Yes I did, as a file, but it didn’t show on the hub.

Your file needs to be in directory /home/pi/pimatic-app/sounds

Ah yes of course, forgot about the fixed map for sounds. Working now, thanks!

I was wondering if you could make the path to the folder which contains sounds and picture configurable? Further s.th. like play file picture.jpg" for x seconds on device currently I use play file picture.jpg" on device and play stop on device which works, but the other one is more intuitive.

The folder for sounds and pictures is used for an internal webserver to stream the content. It can be changed to another directory, but what would be the advantage, all the file still need to be in that one directory.
As an alternative I could copy any path/file to the sounds directory for streaming. That way you can use per play command different file locations.

I will look into a rule duration option for playing content. Not sure if the for x seconds can work.

I added a duration option in the rules. Syntax is

 play file "..." on <device> for xxx [seconds, minutes, ...]

version 0.1.9