What I settled on was building a small Raspberry Pi with a DAC board built into it.

It would also prove to be a fun project and stretch some of my knowledge of audiophile equipment. This left little options, other than buying a very nice Volumio DAC or similar device.Ībout nine months ago it occurred to me that I could build what I wanted, far cheaper than most solutions. I also wanted a solution that didn’t have me vendor-locked, like using Chromecast Audio or Amazon Echo.

I wanted a device that could stream audio from a media server like Plex, not be reliant on Bluetooth for connectivity, allow me to use my existing speakers, and provide high quality audio output. Result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)įile '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/_init_.Headless audio streamer pictured with speaker and a hipster “This is Fine” dog What I Wanted Didn’t Exist (in My Price Range) Yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion.įile '/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py', line 244, in _wakeupįile '/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py', line 244, in resultįile '/usr/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py', line 55, in run

Yield from getattr(player, method)(**params)įile '/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py', line 331, in _iter_ Yield from service_handler.func(service_call)įile '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/_init_.py', line 408, in async_service_handler From my logs: 11:41:55 ERROR (MainThread) Error doing job: Task exception was never retrievedįile '/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py', line 181, in _stepįile '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py', line 1025, in _event_to_service_call There is a media player related error in my logs whenever I try to use TTS in Home Assistance, but I am not able to interpret it. (Not even some crackling, which I hear when I play non-resampled files in Volumio by hand.) Now, when I try to use TTS with automations, or the media instance in Home Assistance, I hear absolutely nothing. As in: starting radio and linking it to ‘ For Volumio to play these files, I did have to turn on audio resampling in Volumio and set bit depth to 32, and sample rate to 44.1 kHZ. Volumio can also play the TTS-files generated by Polly if I feed them to Volumio by hand. I can interact with Volumio through Home Assistant (play, pause, volume, etc.). I’m having difficulties setting up Text to Speech with Volumio.

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