Thanks. But doesn’t that use the cast feature?
That stops what’s being played on the speakers already. Assistant Relay just pauses it while it speaks.
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Anyone installed Pimatic on Raspberry Pi 4
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Indeed, Sounds uses cast to send announcements (text or file) to a chromecast speaker (one speaker or a group). I made it so that after the announcement was played the playing music resumes. I tested it with tuneIn music playing, but it could be that other sources aren’t resuming.
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Yeah I will try and test it. I just installed Pimatic on the raspberry pi 4, and it seems to run stable.
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Thanks for the suggestion. But I would like it to run on my Google homes I have around the house.
I made a stupid mistake when I was installing everything and used the script for installing the node red on the pi which upgraded node.js and npm. I then spent a couple of hours to try and downgrade, which according to the pi was successful, but pimatic kept giving a ppm error. So I decided to start from scratch. Think I will have the time today. Otherwise tomorrow.
I’m quite annoyed with myself, because as soon I have pressed enter on the bash script I remembered what it would do, but it was too late 😅
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@heizelmann said in Anyone installed Pimatic on Raspberry Pi 4:
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If you have an android device a usufull alternative is Woli for voice output via TTS.Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I already use the better google cloud tts (as an option) in pimatic-sounds.
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@simonbove said in Anyone installed Pimatic on Raspberry Pi 4:
Thanks. But doesn’t that use the cast feature?
That stops what’s being played on the speakers already. Assistant Relay just pauses it while it speaks.@simonbove I tried the assistant-relay and it’s some work to install but the announcement function works very nice.
So I added an extra device to pimatic-sounds (the GoogleDevice). The GoogleDevice is using an installed assistant-relay server and can be used via rules in Pimatic.
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@bertreb wow very nice. So I don’t need to use curl and instead do it directly from the rules.
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I got everything up and running on my new Raspberry Pi 4… I used Node.js version 10.15.0 with latest pimatic release.
Then installed Node red manually without their script on the home page. After that I got Assistant Relay up and running. Thereafter my zigbee2mqtt stick was installed.
Lastly I tried to use pimatic sounds, but was not able to get it working with Assistant Relay, so instead I went with node red to use with Assistant Relay. Works flawlessly.
Coming from the old raspberry pi model b with boot time of around 10 minutes, I now have everything running after only 1 minute after reboot. Everything is just blazing fast.So I can really recommend everyone to upgrade their pimatic install.
Now I just need to make a backup image of my install in case of SD malfunction 😊